The alchemical fauna of Crucible Row — four creatures that share the quarter with the chemist warrior. All fictional, invented for this codex.
Tiny imps of living ash that nest in the glassworks' chimney stacks. They are harmless, filthy, and obsessed with shiny things — Marchetti pays apprentices in sweets to chase them out of the cooling racks, and the apprentices spend the sweets bribing the sprites to stay. Orin's bandolier has a soot-smudge on the third cup that he claims is "tactical." It is not tactical.
Translucent eels that live in the canal's teal runoff pools and glow brighter when agitated. The Phialguard uses them as living litmus: an eel going bright violet means the water's wrong and the mission's off. Orin once called off a night patrol on eel-light alone, and Holt backed him — the eels have never been wrong, which the [Fan Theories](/fan-theories) page finds suspicious.
A small brass-and-glass drake — half construct, half animal, all attitude — that roosts on the Phialguard hall's copper pipes and breathes violet vapor when annoyed. It is, technically, Voss's: she built it as a demonstration model and it imprinted on the hall's warmth instead of her. It has bitten two censors, one tax collector, and (once) Orin. Orin deserved it.
Pale moths with crystalline wings that gather around sunfall-salt stores and lantern light. Harmless — unless the salt is impure, in which case they won't touch it, which makes them the quarter's cheapest quality control. Voss grades her suppliers by moth attendance. The Night Market vendor Orin buys from has excellent moth attendance, which is the only reason Orin trusts him.