====== Graven Merlin ======
**Pronouns**: He/Him\\
**Kingdom**: Smarties\\
**Email**: graven_merlin@fourthplace.oxfordrpg.com \\
**Player**: Seph W (Any)\\
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A cloaked raven who appeared within the Fourth Place years ago and has since spent time setting up a graveyard within the Haunted House containing the dead, doubling as something of a museum displaying how those lost lived. It has long been thought by those within the Fourth Place that the spirits of the dead seek out the Haunted House so they may be remembered there,  and indeed the bodies and mementos of many who have died far from the Haunted House have found their way there with very little explanation.

Despite the dark nature of his work and the odd reputation he holds, the Graven has a sense of humour and a love of puns, and despite his solitary nature his knowledge of matters around death and the dead has made him a confidant in times of need for many who have lost those close to them.  He has an aversion to Myconids and rarely is intentionally seen around them, in part because their data transfer means they have less of a need for his funerary practices and in part because their ability to consume biomass means some Myconids in the past have attempted to use his graveyard as a source of easy food, for which they have oft faced consequence.

==== Physical Description ====

A flightless cloaked avian, seemingly corvid although as the mask over its beak and cloak covering everything else keeps nothing exposed its impossible to exactly tell. Over the mask is worn a kind of funerary veil built into the cloak and the whole ensemble is stitched and placed in a way to make it very difficult to remove. The mask is stitched into the cloak as to be unremoveable without removing the cloak.