Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6702118-20130806203240/@comment-25109952-20130908124226

The Keeper, I think, is above the speakers but below the Listener.

The keeper maintains the Night Mothers body, and keeps the Binding Words, which only him and the Listener know. If somebody declares themselves Listener, but cannot speak the words, the Keeper can declare them a traitor and kill them. He is not lorewise on the Black Hand, but I see him as the palm of the hand, the one thing that keeps it all together.