Guildhall Instructor
York's post-crawl teaching post in the Poetry guild, the origin of his compulsive and terrible verse.
Story so far
York's status entry lists him as having worked as a Guildhall Instructor in the Poetry guild after taking the deal at the end of the tenth floor, alongside his time as a Game Guide.
The post explains the man readers meet in the epilogue. Alone aboard the Homecoming Queen, York forces himself to think in verse, composes three-beats about the hive the Syndicate destroyed, and broadcasts poems over open bands until captains block him from the local feed. Colonel Boomer rates all of it worthless and needles him about it constantly. York keeps writing anyway, because he believes there can be beauty in words twisted the right way, and that the correct verse could raise that which was lost - meaning, in his case, his own capacity to feel.
Role
The teaching post that made a hollowed-out killer into a compulsive poet.
Relationships
Sources — 3 recorded facts, by chapter
- Indentured teaching post inside a dungeon guildhall, held by Dante in the trap master guild.
- In-dungeon guild job teaching a class to crawlers; Tipid taught in the Poisoners Guild.
- York's post-crawl teaching post in the Poetry guild, the origin of his compulsive and terrible verse.