Night-Keepers
Meet Night-Keepers, Wardens of the Endless Dark — the silent sentries that do not watch the night, but remain when it begins.
They do not watch the night. They are what remains when night begins.
Night-Keepers are not guardians of a place — they are the boundary that a place cannot cross. Where light fails, they do not pursue it. They hold still, and the darkness learns a shape around them.
They speak rarely, if at all. Their authority is not declared; it is endured. A corridor grows quiet when one is near. A threshold feels heavier. The world behaves as if it remembers an old rule: some doors do not open.
Those who meet a Night-Keeper often describe the same sensation: not fear, but inevitability. As if the night itself has finally stopped spreading — and chosen to stand.