Raymond Elias Devore (a.k.a. Dog Ear)

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Description

Ray looks like he crawled out of a crypt and forgot to die. Gaunt and leathery, with one milky eye and an ear chewed down to cartilage, he wears a shapeless brown coat stitched with talismans, bones, and rusted buttons. His breath rattles from the single lung he’s got left, but don’t mistake that wheeze for weakness—his mind is a trap, and his words are bait. He moves slow but deliberate, like someone always counting his steps against the grave.

Personality

Ray is a relic of alley wars and blood oaths, and he treats every interaction like a transaction with fate. He speaks in riddles, bargains, and warnings—rarely straight, always with purpose. He believes in signs, curses, and the weight of names, and no one makes a move in the Bonepickers without him whispering some omen behind it. He’s not warm, but his crew respects him like a haunted altar—half leader, half legend.

Habits

Carries a pouch of finger bones and throws one before every major decision

Mumbles Veil-speak before lighting any match or entering a new building

Refuses to say the names of the dead—just calls them “the remembering”

Hangs feathers and teeth from every place he sleeps, “to keep the black wind out”

Hooks & Angles

Claims he traded half his soul for a year of foresight—his time might be almost up

Believes someone in the Sinners carries a curse tied to an old war between gangs

The Outfit once tried to kill him—he still carries the bullet in a jar and says it’s thirsty

Rumored to have a pact with a Veil entity called “The Collector Below” who takes tribute in secrets and rot

Year of Birth

1902 CE 51 Years old

Birthplace

Stockyard shanties, Chicago

Eyes

One brown, one blind and filmed over

Hair

Wispy white, kept under a shapeless wool cap

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Weathered and sunken, tattooed hands and throat

Height

5'8"

Weight

129 lbs.

Belief/Deity

Wrong side of old things