The Nameless Ones

Symbol: A twisted staff

Quotes

The Nameless Ones, with their charges and hints and visions, their cowled purposes and shrouded desires. Creatures of fraught antiquity, if the Trellish legends held any glimmer of truth. (DG, UK MMPB, p.175)

'a Nameless One...grey-faded robes...hood drawn back to reveal a stern woman's visage. Pale eyes...The staff she held in one hand seemed to writhe in her grip.'(DG, UK MMPB, p.294)

Special Abilities/Powers

Ritual of Release

(BH, prologue)

Ritual of Purging

The Twisted Staff

'She raised the staff...The twisting, buckling wood seemed to reach hungrily...growing, filling his world until he was lost in a tortured maze' (DG, UK MMPB, p.295)

Sayings

'We do not see in years...But in centuries'(DG, UK MMPB, p.294)

Link to the human First Empire?:

Icarium, examining Iskaral Pust's library: 'The sheer...frivolity, Mappo. The materials alone for this tome are a craftsman's annual wage. No scholar in their right mind would waste such resources - never mind their time - on such a pointless, trite subject...Look, Seed Dispersal Patterns of the Purille Flower on the Skar Archipelago...And I am convinced that these works are thousands of years old. Thousands ...The civilization that brought forth these works must have been appalingly rich. The language is clearly related to modern Seven Cities dialects, although in some ways more sophisticated. And see this symbol, here in the spine of each such tome? A twisted staff...'(DG, UK MMPB, p.148-9)

Mappo remembers where he has seen the script Icarium is referring to: 'seven robed and hooded figures approached. Each held a staff...those staves seemed to writhe...the wood like serpentine roots, or perhaps those parasitic trees that entwined the boles of others, choking the life from them...the twisted madness of the shafts was in fact runic etching, ever changing, as if unseen hands continually carved words anew with every breath's span' (DG, UK MMPB, p.149)

Attributed Works

Patterns in the Azath

Tremorlor, the Throne of Sand
is said to lie within Raraku.
A House of the Azath, it
stands alone on uprooted soil
where all tracks are ghosts
and every ghost leads to
Tremorlor's door.

Patterns in the Azath
The Nameless Ones

See Aren for a larger than life representation of the spiral staff

A priest of the Nameless Ones

'... around its dark eyes was a mass of white-etched tattoos against black skin' (BH UK Tpb, p.42)
'The tattoos continued, covering every part of him. A common enough trait among warriors of the South Clan, yet the style was not Semk. Arcane script would across the assassin's brawny limbs, similar to the carving she had seen in the ruins outside the temple. The Language of the First Empire.
With growing suspicion she rolled the body over to reveal the back. And saw a darkened patch, roughly rectangular, over the Semk's right shoulder blade. Where the man's name had once been, before it had been ritually obscured.' (BH UK Tpb, p.43)

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