Thomas
Person
Thomas is a Lorekeeper of the present day, and in him the long unbroken line of the order reaches the here and now. He keeps the watch as Matthias first kept it and as every keeper between has kept it since - going out into the world to see what there is to see, and coming back to the Athenaeum to set it plainly down, adding his own small portion to the three thousand years of accumulated memory. He is, by the order's own measure, an ordinary keeper, and would tell you so himself; the watcher is not the point, he would say, the watching is. Yet he keeps his record in interesting times, and a keeper who watches closely in interesting times may find, as keepers before him have found, that the plain facts he sets down are less plain than they first appeared - that the small dated entries of an attentive present have a way of mattering more than anyone living can yet see. Thomas watches. He records. Whether his watching will one day be counted among the great ones, only the long ledger, and time, will tell.