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2025-02-12 - Shining Congress – Side Halls - Completed
Laura, Koa, Archie, Silver, and Leaf sneak away during the party to scope out the halls of the Congress, where they have an unexpected encounter with the spectral steed Spectrier, a gloomy fellow who tells them a bit about his history with the Covenant and his best friend Arthur. (He also shows them the garden where he likes to lie on the floor.)
Logged by: Chibi
Characters: Silver, Laura, Archie, Leaf, Koa
Tags: Arthur, Spectrier, Covenant, Aster, Saints, Plot, Zaffre
Word count: 9.1k
* Spectrier, a Saint, works with the Covenant, but seems oddly shy. He spends most of his time invisible or just lying on the floor rather than actively socializing. Usually, his friend Arthur's Covenant work involves meeting people and solving problems; he helps Arthur travel and keeps everyone safe. When not traveling, he likes using his ghostly powers to help find lost items. Outside of those things, though, he seems very sad, and possibly very sheltered.
* When Spectrier takes the group to the rooftop garden, it turns out it's already occupied: two Knights of the Covenant, Ser Aster the flygon and Ser Zaffre the meowstic, are preparing to leave and attend the Congress's main roundtable. They tell the group a little bit about what knights do—apprehend outlaws, defeat ne'er-do-wells when the local authorities can't handle them, deal with dangerous wildren—before taking Laura back to the roundtable with them.
* Arthur has been with Spectrier a long time. Spectrier says he's maybe 280 years old, and Arthur has always been with him (so Arthur must be at least that age). Laura mentions through Betel's network that "Arthur" is leading the roundtable, and appears to be a middle-aged hypno; Betel confirms that Forlasan hypno don't have a lifespan anywhere near 300 years. Spectrier kind-of-sort-of explains that the hypno is "Bobby", a nice hypno who Arthur "borrows" when he isn't feeling well, and that Arthur himself is sometimes called the "Verdant King" by others. (Spectrier didn't say directly, but meta-wise Arthur seems to be Calyrex, temporarily possessing Bobby so he can address the Congress from afar.)
* (He also mentions that Aster and Zaffre sometimes interact with the Aeons, a.k.a. Latias and Latios, when they meet while traveling.)
* Arthur and Spectrier were originally in Malantau, but left after "things got real bad"; it was Arthur's idea to later join the Covenant after they left. He knows Glastrier, but will say only that he "doesn't like her" and that she's mean and scary. Dwelling on Malantau and Glastrier for too long just upsets him, and he sinks into the floor and vanishes.
- Phoenixsong
