• Not an inhuman abomination at all. She was

    major spoilers, sourced from non-gameplay content

    a magpie, just like Harry. Magpies are humans who convert Crypto-Conveyant Phenomena into Novelty, which creates Pale as a byproduct. However, I don’t think that’s the only source of pale. And Harry being a magpie is why, if you play the moralist vision quest, the Moralintern picks him up and (it’s implied) later executes him. They know that a magpie, even one like Harry, could upset the natural order of their state religion.