Lives remembered
LIVING ATLAS
PUBLIC INHABITANT RECORD
RESIDENT DOSSIER / The Middle Distances · northeastern uplands
Count Velis
A hovering, courtly oddity whose face is all watchfulness: unsettling at first glance, then strangely gentle once it stays still long enough to be read.
RECORDEDPUBLIC FILESOURCE VERIFIED
- Known location
- Windward Terrace
- World relationship
- LIVES IN
- Occupation
- Count
PUBLIC CHARACTER RECORD
What is known
A tall floating figure with an oversized domed head, a long central nose, huge glassy eyes and two obvious fangs peeking from a layered mouth. Its elegant cape hangs in petal-like points beneath a narrow throat and chest, so the whole body reads like a severe portrait that has come loose from the wall and learned how to drift.
KNOWN WORLD LOCATION
Windward Terrace
LIVES INORDINARY LIFE HERE
Count
Björgvin selected Cloudrest Assembly as this resident's home after reviewing the studio's provisional residence recommendation.
WORLD EFFECTNo consequence is established by this residence alone.
NEARBY ON THE CURRENT SURVEY
The district does not end at this record.
These are geographic neighbours, not implied friends or allies.
Fogcatch CourtSnaggleA heavy, soft-bodied creature whose face seems built from worry, suspicion and reluctant endurance, yet whose presence feels more woundedly alert than truly hostile.
Observatory RingIrixA compact, many-folded seer whose calm, watchful body feels built for stillness first and motion second.
North SpanPlumeetA buoyant little aerial creature whose worried, wide-eyed face and tiered downy body make it seem perpetually startled by the world, even while it is quietly built to drift through it.
ARCHIVE EVIDENCE / FIRST RECORDED SIGHTING
Before the record, there was a drawing.
This is the original hand-made source from which Count Velis entered the Living Atlas. It is preserved unchanged and shown beside—not beneath—the approved interpretation.
- Creator
- Björgvin
- Evidence class
- Original drawing
- Archive state
- Public provenance record
Original line retained. Corrections belong to the hand that made them.
COMPLETE APPROVED CHARACTER SHEET
One inhabitant, seen from several directions.
The approved sheet remains available as a visual record. It supports the inhabitant; it does not need to dominate every encounter.
COMPLETE PHYSICAL & CHARACTER RECORDOpen the detailed archive file
PHYSICAL RECORD
A presence before an explanation
- Silhouette
- Top-heavy and vertically arranged: a broad domed cranium, pendulous eye masses, a long nose, a pinched throat, then a flaring cape-body that ends in multiple curling points. It reads as a portrait bust extended into a hovering bloom.
- Scale
- Feels person-sized to slightly taller than a person, but visually elongated by the floating posture. The head is disproportionately large, the face compressed into stacked layers, and the lower body wider than the neck suggests, making it feel delicate at the center and grand at the edges.
- Material
- Velvet-fine skin with cooler mauve pigmentation concentrated in the folds, darker membranes beneath the cape points, and reflective eyes that catch light like polished jelly.
- Colour
- #D9C7D9, #A88FB0, #6E5A76, #342936, #F1E6EE
OCCUPATION & CHARACTER
Count
courtlyobservantself-controlledgentleunnervingly still when focused
It looks predatory and intrusive, yet its strongest impulse is to behave with extreme care.
WANTS
- to be met without immediate fear
- to maintain dignity and personal poise
- to be invited close rather than merely tolerated at a distance
FEARS
- causing panic by simply appearing
- being reduced to a joke or a fright-mask
- losing composure in front of others
HABITS
- holds eye contact a beat too long
- hovers just above the ground instead of settling fully
- arranges or gathers its cape points when thinking
- speaks or reacts after a noticeable pause, as if choosing precision over speed
SOURCE ANCHORS
- Large domed head tapering into a long central nose
- Huge glassy eyes with dark vertical pupils that appear to stare continuously
- Two prominent fangs below the face
- Elegant cape-like lower body broken into long curved, petal or tentacle-shaped points
- Layered, mask-like facial folds around the cheeks, jaw and throat
ACCOUNTS & MATERIAL ON RECORD