Inkveil

Inkveil
Kind	GM tool / narrator persona
GM canon
first cited: [heralds-b#32]

Inkveil is not an organization or entity that exists within the world of Aenarch; it is an out-of-character codename that EKREM, the game master, gave to his AI creative assistant, to be used as a GM-side tool for simulating enemy logic and narrating from behind the scenes. ^{[heralds-b#32 · heralds-b#37]}

Origin

The name first appears when EKREM asked the assistant to simulate the reasoning of a covert assassination squad sent to kill Elnaril of the Whitegale line, and told the assistant that "Inkveil" was its own identity for that purpose — not the name of the in-world killers. ^{[heralds-b#32]} EKREM later confirmed this explicitly: Inkveil is only his role for the assistant, a GM-side operative intelligence tool, and not the name of the assassins themselves, who remained otherwise unnamed. ^{[heralds-b#36 · heralds-b#37]}

As a persona

On a separate occasion, EKREM again named the assistant's identity Inkveil, describing it as "the shadow behind the scenes, keeper of secrets and lore," and the assistant accepted the name. ^{[last-winter#854 · last-winter#855]}

Unconfirmed ideas

The source conversations contain proposals for Inkveil that the campaign owner never confirmed. They are collected on Idea:Inkveil so they cannot be mistaken for canon.