Keepers are elves with minds that are practically impenetrable. Their job is to store information that is too important to be written down.
Purpose[]
When something is too important to write down, the Council or another organization gives the secret to a Keeper to remember and protect. They are usually Telepaths. It is the Keepers' job to remember things.
History[]
Book 1: Keeper of the Lost Cities[]
Quinlin thought that Sophie Foster is, or had the potential to be, a Keeper due to the fact that the Black Swan made her with an impenetrable mind, which is the ideal for Keepers.
Book 4: Neverseen[]
Sophie and Fitz later discuss this, talking about how either Sophie or Fitz could become Keepers because of their near-impenetrable minds.
Known Keepers:[]
- Prentice Endal (The Black Swan's Keeper)
- Alden Vacker (His Cognate, Quinlin, was a Probe and he was a Keeper)
- Gethen Inar Ondsinn (Neverseen's Keeper)
Trivia/Other Information[]
- Caches are like Keepers for the Council, except more secure, and a cache contains intentionally forgotten secrets that no one else knows because they pose such a large threat to society.
- The opposite of a Keeper is their partner, a Probe.