Skol Gaeille
A Maker dead for centuries, whose mark still stirs the earth and troubles the living.
Their work outlived them by centuries — and is still running. A long-dead Maker, Skol Gaeille left a personal sigil — the curling, three-pointed mark — on a half-buried plaque, on the lithic servants prowling the bluffs around Three Coven Lake, and on the scroll Vahid has been chasing. All of them point to the same thing: an arcane device still humming somewhere in the ruins, powered by the Mindgem's fiery heart.
Skol is the Maker honorific for master (per the lexicon on p. 267 of Book II); Gaeille is the personal name. So they were a master-artisan in their day, with property scattered enough that their mark recurs across at least three discovery sites in the Mindgem hunt.
The sigil is the through-line. Anyone who recognises it from one place — the Old Map of Skol Gaeille's City, the Sigil-Bearing Constructs, or The Sorcerer's Rival — can chase the trail to the device itself.
What the PCs actually meet
Nothing of Skol Gaeille survives except the marked objects and the device that still runs on the heart. Their work continues to function long after they're gone — that's the whole shape of the Mindgem mystery.
Pronunciation cue
Vahid pronounces it Skole Gay-lee, drawing out the second syllable. The sorcerer who later seized the device kept the name on the construct foreheads either as defiance or as a label he never bothered to scrape off.
Appearance: Never seen. Known only by the three-pointed sigil pressed into bronze, etched into stone, carved into the foreheads of the lithic servants that still walk for them.
Instinct: (deceased) — work continues through the device they built
GM notes
Skol Gaeille is a historical referent, not a living NPC. Use the name to thread three discovery clues into one converging trail. Vahid Knows Things about the sigil — *that's Maker property-marking; same artisan as your scroll* — and that's usually how the PCs first hear the name.