Night Watcher: Starting with Guarding a Barren Tomb

Light the sky lanterns, burn ghost candles. The rules of Locust Tree Village were laid down by the dead, and the living have no say.

I do not believe in gods or worship Buddha. I trust only this eye to see through yin and yang, and this finger to sketch bones and subdue souls.

They prey on families without male heirs, raise little demons, soak prayer beads in corpse oil, and feed living people to evil spirits.

Sigh. They eat at the graveside, but the living pay the debt. Keeping the peace for one night is easy; guarding people’s hearts for a lifetime is hard.