The Vagabond

"The Vagabond is the one Hour who can never enter the Mansus, but she goes everywhere else... and, if you believe her boasts, she's the only one who knows all the Histories. Sometimes, she lets someone record her travels."

- Vagabond's Map

The Vagabond, also called The Centipede, The Laughingthrush, The Sight-Thief, The Proverbial Footloose, The Pilgrim, and many other names, is one of the Hours, associated with hour XVII, or 5:00pm. Her Aspects are and possibly. The Vagabond is a God-from-Flesh, and the only Hour who does not dwell in the Mansus.

According to The Book of Masks, The Vagabond was born in a place called Miah, where she was punished for entering its temple-precinct. Sometime after ascending to Hour-hood, she took her revenge on Miah as The Centipede by cursing it "to drink only dust and to be remembered only by the wind". As The Laughingthrush, she was a friend of The Sun-in-Splendour before his division. As The Sight-Thief, she created The Painted River in the Mansus. As The Vagabond, she has been barred from the Mansus for some incident that has yet to occur.

In Where Has She Gone?, it is claimed that The Vagabond has traveled all nine continents, the Mansus, the Wood, and places forbidden to other Hours. She has also already visited Nowhere and "will not return", yet her ultimate goal is to visit The Glory.

In The Serenity of the Black Wood, the Vagabond leads several travllers in a wood and abandons them part-way. It is strongly implied that those travellers founded the House of Lethe.

According to In the Mountains, the Vagabond sometimes takes the bird-form and meets with the Ivory Dove, the Beachcrow and the Witch-and-Sister on a mountaintop to exchange gossip unheard by their peers. Sometimes, a mortal overhears them and is subsequently destroyed, and the meeting place of those Hours is changed. In The Book of the White Cat, the woman known as Penelope of Gordian claims that her car spies on their meetings in the mountains north of Gordion.

She will be the first of the seven pilgrims in the Watchman's Pilgrimage.

Books

 * The Book of the Centipede
 * Where Has She Gone?
 * The Book of Masks
 * The Serenity of the Black Wood
 * In the Mountains...
 * The Book of the White Cat