Singers

The Singers are reincarnated human sacrifices of the Grinding which produce a hypnotic song which controls the minds of those who hears it and causes them to worship the Grinding.

They are usually women and draped in dresses of fine linen. Body parts such as the eyes and brain are replaced with complex systems of spinning gears and metal and the hands are replaced with needles or claws. The faces are covered with masks of sculpted silver. Their manipulative music they create controls the minds of humans in the nearby vicinity, even making them sacrifice themselves to the Grinding of commanded. Singers have the ability to track down Grindlings and fragments of the mass in hiding, allowing them to soothe locals of defiant villages into docility. However a few villagers have been able to momentarily resist the Singers control such as Delany, a horse-breeder that killed his own daughter to save her from the Grindings control before ending his own life.

The First Singer was the wife of Brennus who killed herself then her children's. Her corpse was transformed by the Grind-Mass to become the first of her kind.