The Path of Hands

Kimloc: '...The Prophecy of the Path of Hands. Soletaken and D'ivers. A gate promising...something. They are drawn as moths to a flame...I do not think even the Soletaken and D'ivers are fully aware of what they seek. Like salmon returning to the waters where they were born, they act on instinct, a visceral yearning and a promise only sensed...There is no unification among shapeshifters. Each stands alone. This Path of Hands...is perhaps a means to Ascendancy - for the victor...Domination of its own kind...'(DG, UK MMPB, p.92)

Mappo:'The shapeshifters are gathering to the promise of a gate through which they can attain such Ascendancy. To become a god of the Soletaken and D'ivers - each shapeshifter seeks nothing less, and will abide no obstacle. Fiddler, we (Mappo and Icarium) think the gate lies below (in the Tesem Temple of Shadow), and we think that Iskaral Pust will do all he can to prevent the shapeshifters from finding it - even to painting false trails in the desert, to mimic the trail of handprints that all lead to the place of the gate'(DG, UK MMPB, p.456)

Shadowthrone: 'If he (Iskaral Pust) cannot deceive the hunters on the Path of Hands, my precious realm - which has seen more than its share of intruders of late - will become very crowded indeed...'(DG, UK MMPB, p.478)

'Mappo: 'What do you expect to find there? (on the Path)'
Messremb: 'Answers, old friend...'
Icarium: 'Madness lurked within him...'
Mappo: 'Within them all...'' (DG, UK MMPB, p.109)

Sormo: 'The plague of D'ivers and Soletaken? They infest every warren now - at least on this continent. All are seeking the fabled Path of Hands.'(DG, UK MMPB, p.397)

And all came to imprint
Their passage
On the path,
To scent the dry winds
Their cloying claim
To ascendancy

THE PATH OF HANDS
Messremb

(DHG US HC, p 33)

See the poetry of Trout Sen'al'Bhok'arala on the Path of Hands

Soletaken

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