The Dead Sea @ Roots
Apr 24 - Jun 19, 2026
Current Holder
David LaTour
Dead Reckoning
Your Scorecard Is Already Written
Can't Stop Calculating Losses
Aspects refreshed May 02, 2026
The Dead Reckoning was born from the first culling in the Deadlands, when the frontier's supernatural laws first took hold. The original survivor, a dying mathematician, calculated his way through elimination using pure probability - and when he emerged as the first remembered, his ghost became the living ledger that tracks all who follow.
The Dead Reckoning appears as a gaunt specter in a dust-choked duster, its face obscured by a wide-brimmed hat worn low. In one skeletal hand it carries a perpetually updating ledger, and in the other a quill that writes itself. Red embers smolder where eyes should be. It is composed of dust and dried blood, and speaks in a whisper-quiet voice that announces rankings like a death knell.
The Dead Reckoning serves as the supernatural scorekeeper of the Deadlands, present at every culling to calculate who deserves remembrance and who deserves oblivion. It is an extension of the frontier's will - a mechanism by which the cursed land judges all who enter.
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