Dear D'rinha,


Hi! I stumbled on your publication really accidental and I swear I've read it a thousand times already!
And it's got me really thinking, you know?
About all the odd things I've seen my whole life.
Mom says I just got an overactive imagination, even though I'm pretty sure my cat sees the same things I do so it can't just be me.
Anyhow! Your story about the Bleeding Lady? Do you think dead folks really can hang around and haunt a place like that?
And if so, do you think they can haunt like... beyond their little spot?

It's just that I think I've started seeing my dad. I grew up in the Shroud, but he lived out in La Noscea except he's dead now.
I even went out there to make sure, and yep, dead as dead can be, for years and years by the look of his house.
But I swear I could FEEL him in there, you know, like he was still around (even if I didn't see him).
But I DO keep seeing him in weird places, just quick little glimpses. Not ever noticing me, though, so maybe I'm safe?

What would you suggest I do if I got family haunting me? Should I try to follow him? Is it okay to confront a ghost?
Mom says he was a mean man, so I'm thinking maybe mean men make mean ghosts, too. And she doesn't like me talking about ghosts NOR him, so I figured it's time to ask an expert.

Thanks for your help! Looking forward to more issues! Bye!


- Ghost Gawker

Ghost Gawker,


I don't believe you "just have an over active imagination." The Shroud is a hot spot for all sorts of ghosts and voidsent.
Dismissing you like that may actually be dangerous, aye?
And the fact your cat sees it as well is even more alarming. They're sensitive to these things.

It could well be an ashkin, but unless your father died horribly, suddenly, and in that exact spot, I doubt you should be too worried it's him.
However, don't assume that means it's a good revenant.

Most, if not all, ashkin are corrupted and pissed about that.
Aye, there's supposedly intelligent formors in Thanalan, but for every one of them, there's a dozen of the mindless sort found in Stone Vigil.
They've been cut off, by force or by the brutal realities of nature and can no longer pass on.
Their aether is just too weary to deal with all that, so it corrupts more easily.

To exist like that is suffering, and a danger to all around them.
Please, for your sake and your ghost's, seek a Thaumaturge.
They know better than most what to do about all this.

Thank you for your praise.


- D'rinha Tia

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