ROMAN · THE KEEPER
All Characters
Roman's round room, the fire lit, chairs waiting
THE ROUND ROOM

The Fireside

“Sit down. The fire’s warm, and I’ve been keeping this story for you.”

MEET

Roman the Keeper

Roman the Keeper — his trading card

Roman came fifth — after Lupa, Leo, Nox and Aquila — a lost boy raised by wild things, who earned the right to be called Keeper. Every story in this world passes through his keeping, and this room, with its deep chairs and its windows over the whole world, is where he tells them.

The boy Roman’s face is never shown. The Keeper’s is. This is him.

NEXT — TAKE THE CHAIR BY THE FIRE ↓
THE GAME — ON THIS PAGE

Sit With Roman

By firelight, Roman tells the tales he keeps — and sometimes the shadows on the wall tell them with him. Take the chair across from him. It all plays right here.

Old Roman the Keeper, bald-crowned with white hair at the sides and a long white beard, seated across a fire in his round stone room; on the table before you, big in the firelight, a carved feather standing upright, a little wooden cup, a river stone, a rolled map and a tiny wooden horse
Roman the Keeper
The Fireside

You have come to the round room at dusk, and the Keeper is glad of company.

Sit across the fire. Five sparks of stories lie on the table — touch one, and Roman will tell its tale.

Five sparks on the table — feather, cup, stone, map and horse. Hear them all, then touch the fire to say goodnight.

THE KEEPER’S SHELF

Four Books, In His Keeping

BOOK I
The Empty Throne
Chapter One — October EveningHEAR IT → BOOK II
Following Marks
Chapter One — Hundred-and-First VisitHEAR IT → BOOK III
First Five
Chapter One — Field of Cooled FireHEAR IT → BOOK IV
The Keeper’s Choice
Chapter One — Roman’s Story BeginsHEAR IT →

That is how it begins. The rest of the book is Roman’s to tell — and yours to find.

Hear Roman read it
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On his page today, the shelf opens each book’s first chapter with Roman reading. That carries over, untouched.