Character · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods
Herot
Author of the Cookbook's 16th edition, whose long essay at the back of the book — the 'Worn Path Method' — argues that quests and puzzles go easier when you deliberately break the fourth wall and wake the NPCs.
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Carl slogs through the essay; Herot's warning that the NPCs who know they are in a dungeon are the more dangerous kind frames his reading of the changelings who want to reach the sixth floor (ch. 10).