Who Took Up the Spear of Fates
Session: 2025-03-12
The record takes up on a beast. Som wrote Elkoth; it was an ellicoth. It drew on souls through its trunk, and mended itself with what it drew. One of the blows thrown at it turned off its hide. The journal does not say where the crew was, how they came there from the train, or how the beast's fight ended.
Who saw the beast drink souls, and mend.
— the Long Names, Zigu, 79
What feeds on another's light is never full.
— the Cycle, IV.12
An ellicoth again. In the gorge of bones he set down its reach and its blindsense. Here he wrote only what it did with its trunk.
Beside the beast, a gray force field, and three collars. Grab the collars, he wrote, and counted them. Then 2 things remember, and nothing after it. The journal does not say whose collars they were, or what the two things were.
Who marked three collars to be taken.
— the Long Names, Zigu, 80
What is counted is kept.
— the Cycle, I.12
Two things to remember, and he wrote neither down. That seems out of character for the man who counted tokens. Perhaps the collars were one of them.
Still in the fight. Then the monks. He fought them, and he wrote Killed them. The journal does not say who the monks were, whose they were, or whether the ellicoth fell before them.
Who fought the monks, and killed them.
— the Long Names, Zigu, 81
A star may die of its own weight, or of another's hand.
— the Cycle, IV.3
What the monks carried: comm units, and three spell ampules. One quickens, one hardens the armor, one shows what hides unseen. The journal does not say who took them.
Carry what quickens, what hardens, and what shows the unseen.
Break it when the moment asks, not before.
(Zigu, from his journal.)
— the Forms, Form 44, later additions
Then the Spear of Fates. He wrote its worth first, a hundred and two thousand credits, and its name beside. A golden spear; an inferno doshko, the vesk polearm; Knight of Golarion; one battery of the greatest capacity. The journal does not say whose hand it had been in, or whose it went to.
Who found the Spear of Fates, and wrote its worth.
— the Long Names, Zigu, 82
The price before the name. That seems out of character for a warrior. Then I remember the sapphires in 114, weighed and valued. He was always one who counted.
A warlord stone, seventy-five thousand: it holds tactics, and makes its bearer greater by much. A rune worm, thirty-seven thousand: a hybrid, of twenty-four centipede-like parts, set near the ear. Once inside, it becomes a symbiote that works with its host. The journal does not say who took either.
What a star takes in, it becomes.
— the Cycle, IV.13
A worm set at the ear, to live inside a man. He wrote it as plainly as the battery. I could not have.
A helmet. Two sapphire gems float beside it: the Eyes of Rehan. Spy drones, and sight in the dark for whoever wears it. Then lots of different computers and gate. The journal does not say who wears the helmet, or what the gate opened on.
Who found the Eyes of Rehan, that see in the dark.
— the Long Names, Zigu, 83
The dark beyond the fire is not empty. It is only unlit.
— the Cycle, I.2
Lower on the page, he was wearied for two minutes. Near it, a blow that struck home against a foe's energy ward. The journal does not say what wearied him, whose blow it was, or whose ward it broke.
Rest a tenth of an hour before you go on.
What is spent comes back, if you let it.
(Zigu, from his journal.)
— the Forms, Form 41, later additions
The last line: Captain Gerd Nashal. Nothing beside it, and nothing after. The journal stops there.
Who wrote the captain's name a second time, and nothing after.
— the Long Names, Zigu, 84
Where the record ends, stand.
Do not step into what you cannot see.
— the Cycle, I.5
Nishal in 123, Nashal here. The same captain, I think. Why end the page on his name alone?