Thread:CrimsonFire735/@comment-25890179-20170514212937/@comment-25890179-20170903012710

Well I said before, but it was a reply to Zilla so I can understand you not noticing it.

I never really put any attention into what the Crow really was. it just isn't necessary to explain. Fenric awoke something with all his prodding into artifacts. Maybe the Crow is a ghost, or some otherworldly demon. Maybe its just a hallucination. We don't know, Fenric doesn't know, and its not important for anyone to know. It's not Ada or Qlipphogr, waiting to pop out and ruin our characters' day.

I added it on a whim, to explain parts of the Death Scepter plot. After that I thought it would be interesting to have it regularly visit Fenric, reminding him of his failures and warning him that his end is coming soon. I guess I could say that its a product of Fenric's growing megalomania, a result of his deviation from his original path, but that's not a really satisfying answer, now is it?

I suppose you'd have a valid theory if you thought that the Crow was in some way linked to Fenric's own mind, but was a separate entity entirely, as though it was created from Fenric's subconscious by one or more of the artifacts he's tampered with.

That was an awfully long post just to say "I have no idea".