The Living Deck · Family II

The Thirteen Companion Spirits

Not tags. Not accessories. Thirteen characters who walk one turning of the Spiral Year each — fungal, faunal, elemental — showing up at the exact month a life needs their particular kind of company. Meet them as a cast.

How to meet them

A cast, not a catalogue

Each spirit keeps one Moon Glyph. Together they form the year's slow rotation of teachers — thirteen because the oldest calendars carried a thirteenth moon, the one science eventually forgot. Read them in season order below, or open any card to sit with a single spirit at length.

Winter Spirits

3 spirits

Spring Spirits

3 spirits

Summer Spirits

3 spirits

Autumn Spirits

3 spirits

Beyond the wheel

1 spirit
Kindred family

Every spirit is one half of a pair

A Companion never walks without its Moon Glyph. Mycorth belongs to Hollow Root; Solmara to Pale Fire. See the whole wheel of pairings in the Spiral Year, and how the four great doorways of a life pass through them.