Warder of Knowledge

[RFS Warder]: A being that is the custodian or guardian of all knowledge of every description. The Warder is said to be sinister and malign, and there are undefined risks involved in summoning it. The references to it in the Eltdown Shards are reminiscent of the tales of elder gods in the Book of Eibon and the Necronomicon.

The nineteenth Eltdown Shard includes an invocation for summoning the Warder. The invocation is a series of sibilant whispers and deep-toned gutterals that creates blasphemous vibrations; no additional ceremony is needed, and the words themselves may have no meaning. The Shard is truncated and lacks the usual spell for dismissing an entity after it is invoked.

In modern times, Gordon Whitney pronounced the invocation, and later encountered the Warder in a dream. In the dream, the Warder was in a landscape of giant ferns and bare sand, perhaps a scene of Earth early in its development. The Warder pursued Whitney with the measured stamp of mighty footsteps. It lifted him up with a tentacle. It had "a great, broad, impassive visage, vaguely suggestive of human mold, but with shocking and blasphemous differences" and "cold, impersonal eyes. . . long, narrow green orbs in which pity or hate or any human emotion seemed impossible." The Warder granted Whitney all knowledge of the universe, past, present, and future, before absorbing him into itself through its green eyes. The next day, Whitney was found dead with no indication of the cause of death, but his face had a shocking expression of horror and despair.

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