Nhal

Alternate Names: Keeper of the Last Door, Arbiter of Endings, The Pale Gate
Circle: Shadow with Twilight

Symbol: An arch, half opened to darkness.
Attitude: Impersonal.
Typical everyday influence: Morticians, Cemeteries and Death
Domains: Death, inevitability, last rites, executioners, succession of power.
Aetheris male, Pale almost solid silver eyes, gaze distant and unreadable.
Long straight silver hair flowing freely over shoulders.
Skin is pale almost translucent or glowing. Air seems to still around him.

Quiet, detached, and eerily calm. Nhal does not judge—he accepts endings as necessary transitions. He treats death with solemn respect, not fear or cruelty. He is one of the least emotional Aidonlin, but not uncaring—he simply sees the larger cycle. Others often project meaning onto him that he does not claim.

What he thinks of the others

Aurelion “He builds structures to hold the world steady a little longer. In time, even the strongest of them come to me.”
Seressa “She softens the lives that pass through her care. I think many are less afraid when they have known her warmth.”
Calethar “He remembers what has been, and that has value. But memory, like all things, eventually yields to silence.”
Elyndra “She walks beside those who are close to me. Where she cannot prevent my arrival, she makes it gentler.”
Thalen “He stands at thresholds meant to delay me. He does his duty well, though no boundary holds forever.”
Myria “She runs toward what is new and away from what is certain. Still, every path she takes ends where all paths do.”
Orenna “She begins what I will one day finish. There is no conflict in that only continuation.”
Lioren “They seek balance across time. In the end, all things settle into stillness.”
Varkos “He counts what is owed and what is given. I am the final settling of all such accounts.”
Velistra “She binds people together in ways they believe will last. I am the reminder that nothing does.”
Zevar “He hides what he can from others. Nothing is hidden from me for long.”
Sahrim “He spends his time avoiding consequence. I am patient.”
Nythra “She tests what may endure. I reveal what does not.”
Kaeth “He imposes order to delay what follows disorder. Even the most rigid order ends the same way.”