The Echoes of Fallen Stars — Powers & creatures

Mistrid blessing

Powers & curses

Also known as divinity, the Mistrid

• I · 11Hanell’s scarlet tear, tasting sweet, then sour, then burning, given “perhaps to aid you in traveling between all realms.”
• I · 13A Valleynerian blessing passed down from the Regent. No mortal or Nephilin had ever received it.
• I · 13,14Grants mind-entry, the last memories of the dead, speed and endurance, and less need for food and sleep.
• I · 16Lets Bellwound shatter Shadows’ last memories. It fails near Kymer.
• I · 22“Not a match for Lucifer’s Sacredice blade.”
• II · 15Lets Bellwound enter Lucifer’s memories.

Skin stories

Powers & curses

Also known as skin-stories

• I · 8Tattoo-like markings, each a tale, worn only by warriors of old of high prestige.
• I · 12Reemon’s are silver.
• I · 22Lucifer’s rose-and-dove is on his face; on Bellwound it looks like a birthmark on his forearm.
• II · 2,3Bellwound’s glows scarlet against fire and burns gods who try to kill him.
• II · 19The newborn bears the rose and dove on her neck.

Seed of darkness

Powers & curses

• I · 3“She did her job after all.”
• I · 9Ely: it is growing “and it’ll soon pierce the soil.”
• I · 11Hanell waited eighteen years for it to break ground.
• I · 12Revealed: Arnon housed a Fallen Star, Reemon.

Host possession

Powers & curses

Also known as hosts

• I · 3,4Fallen Stars wear human bodies and can be hurt through the host’s mortality.
• I · 18Reemon: the longer he wears Arnon, the more Arnon’s memories become his and fade.
• II · 17Crocell: “Arnon was the second mortal and yet reclaimed his body.”

Eternal death

Powers & curses

Also known as second death

• II · 1“Death be a bridge now, but eternal death is the end for all dat breathe. ’Tis a second death.”
• II · 3Gods can’t deal it to one another, but Bellwound can.
• II · 4Only the Regent can grant it to a god.
• II · 8,11The Threeun opens Lucifer to it in the god realm.

Invitation rule

Powers & curses

• I · 3,4A Fallen Star can’t enter a home without consent. Crocell would kill the whole village to get an invitation.

Nephilin curse

Powers & curses

• II · 5Set by the Fallen Stars after the Nephilins’ human parents were murdered: Nephilin babies die in the womb or soon after birth.
• II · 5,6Lucifer promised to break it with a ritual.

Helstrid’s unseen power

Powers & curses

• I · 10Pain and paralysis without a touch.
• I · 18Fails on Kymer and Oriah.
• II · 17Fails on Kymer again.

Mezar snakes

Creatures

Also known as red snakes, scarlet serpents

• II · 9Blood-soaked Mezars turn into keeled red snakes with triangular heads and enter Kymer and Serrida through their mouths; their eyes turn white.
• II · 14One with the Mezar sigil on its skull enters Bellwound.
• II · 15It bursts from his thigh as red wings.

Shadows

Creatures

Also known as Shadow hosts

• I · 4The walking dead: “control,” not life.
• I · 5Holes for eyes, tattered lips, the stink of dung and rot. A blade through chest or skull turns them to ash.
• I · 9Made by keeping souls asleep on a wasteland while their bodies are used.
• I · 16Bellwound destroys them by shattering their last memories.
• I · 17Their bite festers into another Shadow unless treated with elemeanor.
• I · 21Elistran turns Da into one; the eyes go gold.
• II · 6Under Lucifer’s plan, all humans will become Shadows.
• I · 5Man-shaped, with glowing white cat-like eyes visible in the dark, skeletal hands and a howling screech.
• IKnown in the books: Elistran.

Obsynth

Creatures

• I · 8Pale, faceless, hairless servants of Heelyan with mirror-like skin and arms that become blades. They play music and carry masks at their wrists.
• II · 7They bleed black, and a red tongue slides from a slit beneath the chin. In Vragner they shave and crown Oriah and Loghleen.
• I · 8Some play skin-headed drums and a long stringed instrument that sounds like low thunder; two sing, one deep and ominous, one gentle.
• I · 9They light the bronze lions' coal by striking their blade hands together to make sparks.
• I · 10The Obsynth guards in the white city are more muscular than Heelyan's, in bulky armor, carrying a spear and a whip.

Wrexing

Creatures

• I · 22Invisible things escaped from the Dark Beyond that strip sight, sound and touch. Not even the Sindal sense them. They attend Elistran.

Breomers

Creatures

Also known as breomer

• I · 8Winged lions with gray-brown feathers and fire breath, thought to exist only in stories. Five burn Atholeeon and the castle.
• I · 17The Sindal “inspire” them.
• I · 8A breomer has a lion's face and mane and golden eyes that glimmer like flame.

Desert dragons

Creatures

• I · 18Sand-colored hide, black eyes, putrid black blood. “The beasts are starved and then released during battle.”
• I · 21One eats Abhel.
• II · 18Two fight in Vragner; Helstrid escapes on one.
• I · 18Strong, well-muscled forelegs and spikes a rider can grip; they breathe fire and fight with clawed feet.
• I · 21Their wings are sand-colored; armored Shadows ride them.

Dragons of Dragonhall

Creatures

• I · 16“The first dragon that crosses your path in life… is yours to care for. No dragon is a coincidence.”

Horned rabbits

Creatures

• I · 1Gray, horned and pink-nosed, plentiful around Heedeon. Caught with dragonbane-laced purple carrots.
• I · 21Called crop pests in Aleeon.
• II · 1One wanders Ta-ghleeman, out of place.
• II · 16Lucifer crushes one before Death.

Crow-bear

Creatures

Also known as crowbear

• I · 17Bellwound wakes on what may be a crow-bear pelt.
• II · 13“White Locks and Black Claws” is about a crow-bear cub.
• II · 15The arena beasts looked like horned crow-bears.

Hummingflies

Creatures

• II · 19Round, four-winged insects that glow for travelers in the dark. They swirl around Death as it takes the newborn.

Elemeanor

Creatures

• I · 17A vine that grows around trees. Mixed with water, this Valleynerian medicine stops a Shadow bite from festering.

Bitterlie

Creatures

Also known as milk flower

• I · 1A wildflower and tree found only near Heedeon. Its milk anoints the Blood-date; its roots inspire the braid.
• II · 1“Mortal plants.” A patch blooms and withers in Ta-ghleeman before the Silver rise.

Dragonbane

Creatures

• I · 1Put in wild purple carrots to send rabbits into a deep sleep.

Flamewarp

Creatures

• I · 20A gem-glistening gray shrub whose leaves spark fire against rock.

Berrycharm

Creatures

• I · 20A twisted, berry-laden tree beside the hot spring.
• I · 20Its branches bend under the weight of fruit, its wide leaves cast good shade, and its twisted roots jut from the rocks.

Honey-daisies

Creatures

• I · 15“The rarest of all flowers.” Loghleen smells of a field of them.

Royal olopen

Creatures

• II · 8A pink-and-yellow flowering tree native to Sandrovar’s hills.

Lullaby arcadian wood

Creatures

• II · 7A brown wood that warms itself in winter; Oriah’s bedposts are carved from it.

Cornelia

Creatures

• I · 1Golden-leaved trees with hard bark.

Grayfur-cat

Creatures

• I · 10Roams the woods near Heedeon.

Watchbird

Creatures

• I · 21Carries Abhel the news of Vragner’s destruction.

Echoes of the dead

Powers & curses

• I · 9The whispering and groaning of those who died in Peritas.