Denizens of Naidem

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As twilight touched my windowsill, sleeplessness overtaking me, I spied a decrepit woman crouching between the curtains. Startled, I sat upright and watched as she crept from the window and perched upon the foot of my bed like a gargoyle overwatching the roof of an ancient structure.

“Do not be afraid,” she said to me. Her words came in a heavy accent that caused the r’s to roll and the d’s to be bitten off.

“I’ve come to tell you of the Denizens of Naidem,” she said and motioned to the quill and notepad I kept on my nightstand. “You will want to take notes.”

Having only recently heard of Naidem and begun my research into it, I was instantly alert. I donned my spectacles, grabbed up my quill and pad, and immediately began writing everything she said.

“You must understand,” she began. “The dead are a jealous people, and only some few may walk among them without drawing their ire. Witches and necromancers pass into their realm regularly, but the dead pay no mind to them. You could hide from them, using a mask or a heavy enchantment for both confuse them mightily."