Kieran Leary is an aging New York City homicide detective who, despite being incapable of perceiving spirits, has some awareness of taint within the Shadow.[1]
Overview[]
“ | ... I think New York's got a personality and a soul, just like every living thing. Only problem is, this city? She's sick as all hell. All the suffering in the city has bred some foulness out there in the shadows. | ” |
As a member of a profession that tends to see the worst in a place each day, Leary rather rapidly became aware that certain places saw much more crime than others.[1] Rather than pinning this on the people within it, Leary blames the places themselves, calling them "bruises".[1] He considers these places to be a congregation of the sickness that infests the city, something he sees as evidenced by the strangely consistent nature of the crimes they see; the same orphanage being filled by children whose parents were murdered, for example, or the same cab company repeatedly losing staff to road rage.[1]
Leary's attempts to map these bruises has resulted in a fairly detailed, though not perfect, dataset filled with verges, loci, shoals, and Wounds.[2]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 CofD: Book of Spirits, p. 34
- ↑ CofD: Book of Spirits, p. 35