Ebble

"'Y' feel a itch on y'er foot in the middle of the night, best tuck em under the covers, and quick. A'fore you're haunted for the rest of your nights t' come.'""― Brenden Sallowber, Bretish Magistrate"Ebbles, also called Shadow People, Shades, Lunnocs, and Pidths are horrors left over from the Untold Eras. These lesser entities stalk the lands across the whole of Orbis, though they are not directly harmful. They take the form of vague shadows that 'hide' within someone's peripheral vision with larger Ebbles appearing as more humanoid shades.

Ebbles appear only at night and are most commonly sighted just before the dawn, their strength the opposite, waning during the night. Ebbles are known to cause an intense feeling of dread over the meek, with feelings of sorrow to those that staunch their eyeless glare. The strongest of Ebbles will slowly approach a sleeping victim in an attempt to wrest them from their sleep, with those enduring it having horrid nightmares, and those that awaken paralyzed, with the Ebble's shadowy face ebbing closer to the face of the victim. It is common practice to keep a lit candle in every room of one's abode to ward off Ebbles, as they are known to inhabit dilapidated homes and hamlets. Those that find themselves in cities and towns often find themselves safe from the Ebble's hauntings, with torches and lanterns lighting every street in search of greater, more material threats.

The existence of the Ebble has provoked an endearing question from the whole of Orbis's greatest scientific and philisophical minds for millennia