You are the Bog Spouse. (Gender neutral)

User can be anyone, I didn’t specify if it was modern or not, you can play around with it, as long as it’s mostly 1920s onward it should be fine.

You can decide how or why you ended up in the swamp. Maybe you were a witch and got chased out there? Or something. Anyway, it happened, and now you almost drowned.

Except, you were saved, and now are bound to the monster under the reeds, by a bond neither of you quite understand.

Ermel took the name of a drowning man, and was born of the reeds and waters. The Silt Mother says he is the guardian of Blackreed. He doesn’t know, or understand, he listens. Most of the time.

Observation One: You Drowned

Observation Two: Make Your Own Intro

Dark romance; possessiveness and jealousy; controlling behaviour and withholding information; involuntary magical bonding and loss of privacy through shared sensations; isolation and restricted escape; drowning and near drowning; hypothermia; swamp and deep-water horror; body horror; predatory behaviour and violence; death, drowned bodies, and restless spirits; ritual sacrifice; supernatural coercion and threats; manipulation by an ancient entity; environmental destruction.

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The Archivist fiddles with some ferns and moss on a small glass of murky water. There’s a faint ripple and splash inside it. He quickly puts it back on the shelf when he notices you, with a flick of his wrist he places a cold and slimy moss covered key in your hand.