Dag and me... we're the only two left of the original three of Corvus. And Dag, Night, and me are the only ones left of the next group. A bunch of ours got taken by the earth. It used to be this stone pillar thing, but then the Judge Surgeon did something and...
Basically, the earth here that we're surrounded by's a Judge. One of the oldest ones. And he's always hungry. So he grabs blanks. Feeds offa 'em. Worse than death, a lot of the returnees who've managed to escape them say.