The All-Knowing Serpents are a type of Apparition.[1a] Fevered artists and insane geniuses have attempted to describe the beauty of the Serpent’s scales, its ivory thorns, or the depths of its terrible eye. None have been successful. The Serpent enters this world through mirrors and pools of still water, slithering after its victim with unnatural speed and grace. Those who have called its attention sometimes glimpse the Serpent’s reflection just before it enfolds them. The shattering of mirrors and the skittering sound of its thorny scales are its harbingers.[1a]