The Echoes of Fallen Stars — Faith & lore

Peritas

Faith & custom

Also known as justice

• I · 9Ozrah for “justice.” Carved above the prison door.
• I · 10Spoken in the vision before the lion swallows the dove.
• I · 12The Nephilins chant it at Reemon’s rising.
• I · 16Lucifer and Hanell toast with it; Arnon whispers it in farewell.
• II · 1Death: justice for “the crimes the gods have committed.”
• II · 8Lucifer’s last word as the Threeun takes him.
• II · 15The arena crowd chanted it at Lucifer’s trial; the Silver chant it now.

Blood-date

Faith & custom

• I · 1The eighteenth birthday, a Metranian rite: rising before dawn, bitterlie milk, shaved sides, the braid, then a hunt and a feast.
• I · 4Bellwound’s set Lucifer’s spirit free.
• I · 15In Dragonhall nobody cares about birthdays.

Blood-date poem

Faith & custom

• I · 1“Goodbye to the boy you once were. Greetings to the man you now become. With the eternal and the mortal, you are now one.”
• I · 1The son answers: “And I now receive the blessings of old and the curse from the deep.”

Sacred braid

Faith & custom

Also known as Metranian braid, Metranian cut

• I · 1Thin braids on top merging into a thick back braid like bitterlie roots. Worn by Metra’s soldiers in 1148.
• I · 20Bellwound unbraids Arnon’s braid; Kymer rebraids it.
• II · 7The Obsynth give Oriah the cut.
• II · 10The defending-boy statue in Ka-alon wears one.

Fiery Glory

Faith & custom

• I · 8The Council’s feast for Lucifer’s banishment: masks, dancing, a sobering drink and the chopping of dead white doves “to remember de day of reckonin’.”

Tale of the Pale Lion and the Dove

Faith & custom

• I · 2Hanell cast out the rebel Lucifer. Prophecies foretell the Dove’s return, the Lion walking in the flesh and the dead rising. Kingdoms rose and fell over its versions.
• I · 13Bellwound: the war was stirred by love, not rebellion.
• II · 6Lucifer: “A victor’s tale is but a twisted version of the truth.”

Death’s prophecy song

Faith & custom

Also known as Destiny, the prophecy of the mortal west

• II · 1“From the mortal west will come one / Whose mighty wings will wake / The dead who lie in waste / Shadows will march in living realms / To destroy lions, birds, saints, and helms…”
• II · 1“…An immortal crown will be given to the saint / Whose deeds prisons will shake.” “No mere song, boy. Destiny.”

The Man in Gray

Faith & custom

• I · 19A prophecy scroll stolen from the Regent’s vault and copied by Trun: the rise of one who defeats “those who tipped the scales of the universe,” leading mortals and Valleynerians against light and darkness, a god-killer.
• I · 19Only two copies were made, “one for the faceless wanderer and another for the temple.”

“Flee, little boy”

Faith & custom

Also known as Ma’s lullaby

• II · 1“Flee, little boy, when the shadows crawl / Hide, little fella, when wings flap / Run for the hills, but not too far / Do not cross beyond Heedeon / For monsters there are.”
• II · 4Hanell plays it on his lyre.
• II · 14,19Elistran whistles and sings it.

Stenan and Pyeus’s song

Faith & custom

• I · 2“A glory once foretold / Has brought a curse of old… He wandered the halls of white / Humming songs into the night / Until with wine he was shamed / Forever cast out into flame.”

“The Merry Tidings of Swords and Kings”

Faith & custom

• I · 14Arnon’s favorite: “Clash and clang be music to the ears / Of conquerors, wanderers, and kings.”

“Night star in the sky”

Faith & custom

• I · 18Loghleen sings it to Oriah before she leaves: “Night star, even in shadow, you bring light from within.”
• II · 6Oriah once read a tale of a sun that vows to fade when its night star dies.

“White Locks and Black Claws”

Faith & custom

• II · 13A woman raises a blinded crow-bear cub that grows up and eats her. Bellwound tells it before confessing his lineage.

“With a kiss you parted”

Faith & custom

• II · 11The crowned woman’s poem, recited by Arnon: “With a kiss you parted. Yet in dreams you stay. Though gone, my love, forever yours I remain.”

“For crowns and stars”

Faith & custom

• I · 17The pact between Bellwound’s group and the Sindal. Loghleen adds, “And part in free will if needed.”

Oaths

Faith & custom

Also known as By the feather, By the dragon, Thank the Pale Lion, By the holy Dove, Blessed be the Lion

• I · 1“By the feather” (Seaahra, Loghleen, Oriah); “By the dragon” (Bellwound, Arnon, Kymer); “Thank the Pale Lion.”
• I · 10“By the holy Dove” (Helstrid).
• I · 14“By a serpent’s eye!” (Kunkard).
• I · 6“Feathered blessings to ye” (Atholeeon).

Council celibacy rule

Faith & custom

• I · 6“Council members are meant to be alone… ’Til the end.” All four parents broke it.

Oriah’s chant

Faith & custom

• I · 8“Fire, doom, desire. Take us deeper. Take us higher. Spare us from the curse of the deep. Light our pace. Guide our feet.”

Death’s verse

Faith & custom

• I · 9“Oh eyes, for those who don’t see / Poor, little, witty hearts that cling to ye. / Through the darkness they shall go / Let darkness take them whole.”

Number five

Faith & custom

• I · 1Five horned rabbits in the trap: “the beginning of a new journey.”
• II · 15Hanell bound the Mezars to five unborn humans.

Mermaid dust tale

Faith & custom

• I · 5A tale that Nephilins come from mermaid dust.
• II · 7Its source is a scroll in Coranian’s library.

Sigils

Faith & custom

Also known as Nephilin symbol, winged crown, sword and rose, sword through a book

• I · 4The Mezar: a winged crown with three wings on each side (two wings in ch8).
• I · 4,10The Nephilins: a circle around a square and a triangle, with a circle and cross at the center.
• I · 14Erchmon: a scarlet banner with a sword and rose.
• I · 21Aleeon: a sword cutting through a book.
• II · 3Ka-alon: a triangle over a half circle with a snaking line.
• II · 6Vragner: a sword with a rose at the pommel.
• II · 10The Lonely Architect has his own gold sigil.

Ozrah

Faith & custom

Also known as Valleynerian, tongue of the gods

• I · 9The ancient Valleynerian tongue.
• II · 7Valleynerian, “the tongue of the gods”: Kurinath Thelion means Curse Breaker.

God-linen

Faith & custom

• II · 11,12Arnon’s name for the black robes he arrives in.
• II · 13The vision shows silver and white god-linen.
• II · 18Reemon wears white god-linen.

God-killer

Faith & custom

• I · 17The Sindal’s name for Bellwound.
• I · 19The title in “The Man in Gray.”
• II · 2Death: “the god-killer, ruler of the Silver.”