Raven

A ritual-sign raven whose absence triggers De Vries’ collapse. The bird’s disappearance—its sudden absence where spectral witnesses would expect it—strips away the fragile illusion of control guarded by scripted omens. When De Vries screams for the raven and finds only silence, the emptiness where ritual power once perched mirrors his unraveling authority. The raven’s function as a living signpost collapses into a void that lets the glowing standing stone’s apparition rush in.