Steve Shell
speaker
3,475 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3d ago
Steve Shell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But was not.
It was in fact.
A miracle of lock engineering, no.
As the arbiter.
The physical body that housed the thing on this plane.
with an unholy marriage of flesh and machine.
Comprised of the limbs and head of the mummified corpse of a green touched man the boys in R and D had snatched up from his family dinner table in some forgotten backwater of eastern Kentucky that even Solomon had never heard of.
They had killed his wife and children, of course.
It wouldn't do to leave witnesses.
They had vivisected the unlucky witch, and then carefully preserved his constituent parts by way of a dark ritual unearthed from some ancient Greek text.
While the flesh cured.
They set about building a framework to hold it upright.
A cage of steel and wire, pipe work and steam, gears and pistons inscribed with runes transmitted to them in dreams by the being known as the Arbiter.
They had commissioned a pair of lungs made with fine thin layers of skin preserved from the man's back from a cannibal seamstress in Georgia, which inflated with steam so that the arbiter might speak in its raspy whispers.
They had constructed a tiny engine to pump oil through its preserved black heart.
They had sacrificed three of their own children to power the greater circle required to summon the arbiter and dedicate this unhallowed vessel to its service.
The iron ring in which it stood had been infused with the fell magics that both facilitated its presence in this world, where it served the Locke family at the behest of the sleeping darkness under the mountains and kept it contained.
They could release the orbiter if they wished.
But the general feeling amongst the family was it was safest to keep its power in check unless an emergency situation arose.
Thus, the service it currently provided to the locks primarily consisted of tutoring those who had accepted the sooty sacrament of the inner dark, honing each of their dark talents to its deadliest edge.
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