The Watcher

The Watcher is a strange, very tall, man-like winged creature encountered by the protagonists of The Watcher Narrative in The Rocky Land. It apparently attempts to copulate with Rona, who dies after the narrator pulls the creature's genitals out of her body. It is slain by the narrator with a spear.

Appearance
The Watcher is described by the narrator of the The Watcher Narrative as thin, very tall, with giant pale translucent featherless wings similar to a bat's in place of arms. It has black blood, which is visible pumping through its body owing to its thinness and the translucency of its skin.

It has legs like a mantis, and long bones, which are also visible beneath the skin. Despite its great height, its waist is only slightly larger than a cat's.

It has a face like a lion's, but with giant, filmy eyes, and motile black teeth like a spider's chilicerae. Its sexual organ is very long, but thin, and opens into several serpentine parts which extend along the ground, enter Rona's orifices, and lift her into the air.

Motives
The Watcher's motives are unclear, however in the biblical mythology expounded in apocryphal works such as The Book of Enoch, the Watchers are fallen angels who in ancient times were sexually attracted to human females and mated with them. The offspring of these unions were violent giants, and the chaos and depravity that followed their appearance in the World prompted God to cleanse creation with the great flood described in Genesis.

Ben's Narrative and Karen's Narrative describe how the CIA discovered genetic code enabling the perception of higher dimensions, which was inserted into the human genome around fifty thousand years ago in the stone age. The Watcher Narrative presumably depicts this era.

The narratives have so far not elaborated on whether the insertion of this genetic code was deliberate, accidental, or coincidental with some other objective.