Some guardians fight with steel. Some with fire. But there are others who fight with memory alone. In The Last Patriot, that figure is the Seer, sometimes called the Librarian of Faces—a blind woman who dwells in the Cave of Faces, where the past itself seems carved into stone.
The Cave of Faces
The Cave is no ordinary cavern. Its walls shimmer faintly with light, though no torch burns within. Etched into its stone are countless faces—men, women, even children. Some are worn smooth with age, while others look freshly cut, almost alive. These are the faces of the Eye-bearers, each remembered and recorded by the Seer. Every one of them bore the mark across centuries, every one of them carried its burden, and every one of them was eventually claimed by fate.
The cave is more than a shrine—it is a ledger. To step into it is to feel the weight of history pressing close, thousands of eyes staring back, all silent witnesses to the endless struggle with the Hollowing.
The Seer’s Role
The Seer is its guardian and interpreter. Though blind, she sees more than any mortal. Her sight reaches across the threads of time—into what was, what is, and what might yet be. She alone can recall the fates of those who bore the Eye before Elias, and she alone can warn him of the cost.
Her presence is unsettling. When Elias first meets her, she speaks not to him directly, but to the Eye burning on his chest, as though she is addressing the mark itself. To her, Elias is not the first, nor the last—only the latest in a long chain of chosen and cursed.
Origins and Mystery
Who she is—or once was—remains uncertain. Some say she was among the very first to touch the Eye, a bearer who chose renunciation instead of power. Others whisper she was blinded by the Hollowing itself, yet spared to become its record-keeper. There are even Wardens who claim the Seer is not one woman, but a mantle passed down—each new Librarian inheriting the memories of the last until the line blurred into one eternal figure.
What is clear is that the Seer is not untouched by the mark she records. The weight of centuries lives in her voice, every word layered with sorrow, warning, and inevitability. To enter her presence is to feel the truth of the Eye—that its story is not Elias’s alone, but one written and rewritten across the blood of generations.
The Shadow of Prophecy
In the Seer’s chamber, Elias learns what no soldier wishes to know: that the Eye does not merely choose. It tests. The faces in the cave are not carved to honor, but to warn. Each one tells the story of a bearer who fought, who bled, and who failed.
And yet, she tells him, some of their stories are unfinished. The lines of destiny bend, overlap, and blur. Not every ending is fixed. Not every prophecy is certain. The Eye has its will—but the Veil has its mysteries.
The Seer does not offer comfort. She offers remembrance. And in remembrance, she offers Elias the heaviest burden of all: the knowledge that he is not alone, and never was.
✨ Stay tuned for the next character spotlight, where we’ll step into the abyss itself and confront the Hollowing—a hunger older than empires, feeding on war, blood, and the endless cycle of death across centuries.