The Peat-Saint is created by the mire-priest in response to the attack on their parish by Mercer and Gage.
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Detailed Physical Description[]
According to Mercer the Peat-Saint is, "...a vast and cumbersome shape: his skin darkening and rippling like ancient peat bursting forth beneath a cutter’s turskill, veins of rancid sphagnum moss pulsing about his bulging arms. A human face still visible, wide-eyed and no longer in control, from deep within his chest."[1]
Behaviour[]
The Saint attacks the soldiers accompanying Mercer and Gage. It kills a soldier called Timps by picking him up in one hand. Molten peat flows over Timps burning and killing him.[2]
Context In The Story[]
The Saint is created to hold off the attackers. Mercer and Gage use molotov cocktails to take it down, and it dies quickly.[2]