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Fern

The child of a servant of the spirit court of Magnificent Ginkgo, Fern has known only the jungles of the East/Southeast all his life. Fern is unaware that his mother - a fallen Immaculate monk - has ever lived anywhere but in the wilds.

It was during his fourteenth year that Fern drew his second breath. For standing beside his 'great grandfather' in the face of the horde of zombies and fell beasts led by the Dusk Caste "He Who Meditates on the Glory of Carnage" he was Exalted into the Zenith Caste. A painful heat and brightness filled his entire awareness as the undead recoiled from him... a voice like thunder filled his ears and visions assailed him... it would be over a month before Fern became sensate to the world again. When he ceased to be assaulted by the visions, he was somewhere very different... The land was flat and empty, the sky grasping the sandy dunes directly, unfettered by trees. Great rocks or hills were bunched together ahead of them, strangely shaped and hard-edged. People too, bizarre, and dressed in strange alabaster apparel... not at all like the skins and foliage that Fern wore.