The Deepwater Oracle

The Deepwater Oracle is a figure of vital, unsettling importance in the coastal indices, representing a truth outside the deep stone. She is cataloged not as a dwarf, but as one of the few long-lived human seers to survive the initial chaotic fallout of the Sundering’s Echo. Her lineage is traced directly to the isolated Coastal Sages, who taught her to read the volatile ebb and flow of Oceanic Resonance using specialized Tidal Lenses. Her life was spent primarily within the treacherous, tide-locked passages of the Sea-Cave Archives, where she meticulously recorded the whispers of the tides rather than the rumble of the earth. She was responsible for translating the most cryptic entries in the Sunken Charts of Loran. Her most significant documented pronouncement concerns the coming Tide of Drowning. She did not predict this event through celestial geometry, but through an immediate, terrifying communion with The Deep. This contact resulted in her Deepwater Mark, an indelible sign upon her eyes that allows her to glimpse the chaotic flows of deep-sea energies. It was she who offered the chilling confirmation, noted in the forthcoming Chapter of the Deep, that the colossal Deep Kraken sleeps beneath the waves until the injured earth calls it to feed. The Abbey Chroniclers classify her fragmented lore under the Post-Schism Recovery Index, viewing her volatile insights as crucial for navigating external threats, despite the discomfort of relying on non-dwarven, fluid history.