This ancient gull is Virgil, formerly the familiar of Archais, Firewatch Island’s wizard. Virgil survived the slaughter of the garrison ten years before and has lived on the island ever since, nesting in the wizard’s tower room. It has avoided the hermitage residents and was largely ignored by them.

Virgil fled the island the previous night when the drowned ones attacked, but now that the characters have seemingly defeated them, the gull has returned to its home. It continues to watch the party despite any attempts to shoo it away. Having observed the characters’ actions against the drowned ones, the ex-familiar believes that they might be the sort of heroes who could finish Archais’s work and end the undead menace.