Veil Keepers
Veil Keepers treat dreams and shadows as natural windows on the Threshold. A dream is not an order from the dead, but a fragile place where memory, fear, and distant possibility appear in one language.
Guard before seeing
Before interpreting a dream, a Keeper asks for the sleeper’s consent, the safety of others sharing the room, and who could be harmed by the account. Dream books are kept in cipher; repeating another person’s dream without permission is treated like stealing a funeral word. Shadow rites likewise seek not to summon information, but to discover whether a boundary has been strained.
Keepers may be called for the missing, unfinished grief, and troubled passages. Their answer is rarely a certain name or date. It is a cautious recommendation: leave a door closed, delay a family decision, reseal a grave. That caution makes them inconvenient to impatient courts and reliable to neighbourhoods.
The fear of surveillance
Because dreams and shadows can also serve spying and blackmail, Veil Keepers are regulated in many states. The line between legitimate oversight and assault on thought privacy is endlessly contested. Keepers maintain that dream material cannot stand alone as legal evidence; opponents argue that closed records evade all scrutiny.
A Keeper’s good reputation is measured not by how many secrets they know, but by how many they refuse to carry. Not every shadow is a door to be opened.