Ancient Keeper VorthakCharacter
Ancient Keeper Vorthak is a senior figure in the Castle of Wizards responsible for presiding over formal trials conducted according to old traditions. He carries a temporal staff and his weathered face suggests great age and long experience with the Castle's history.
Where it appears (10 mentions in 1 book)
The Castle of Wizards · 10 mentions Read the book →
- ¶11Ancient Keeper Vorthak: "Let the trials begin according to the old ways. Three challenges shall determine who possesses not merely the loudest voice, but the deepest understanding of our craft."
- ¶18…ers that had fallen to hubris and academies that had thrived through careful stewardship. Ancient Keeper Vorthak's weathered face remained impassive, but his grip tightened on his temporal staff as the ma…
- ¶27…was neither orange nor silver. It pulsed twice, slow and deliberate, and went dark again. Ancient Keeper Vorthak lowered his gaze to the floor and turned the temporal staff between his palms three times…
- ¶29Ancient Keeper Vorthak raised his head at last. The temporal staff ceased its turning. He crossed the chamber with steps that left faint impressions in the living stone, each footfall accompanied by a b…
- ¶30Ancient Keeper Vorthak: "The trial does not disqualify. It illuminates. In seven hundred Cycles of this Castle's keeping, only twice has the stone returned neither light nor darkness, but that unnamed c…
- ¶32…passed over it. They looked at the darkened third platform, then at Wizard Dump, then at Ancient Keeper Vorthak, and the looking carried no triumph and no concession, only the careful attention of one…
- ¶34…pper-Robed Observer whose whispered words had carried so far beyond their intended reach. Ancient Keeper Vorthak regarded Wizard Lary for a long Lumin, the temporal staff quiet in his grip. Then he look…
- ¶57Ancient Keeper Vorthak did not look at the bundle. He looked at the figure who had carried it, with the long, measured attention of someone reading a document they have not yet been handed. His grip on…
- ¶58Ancient Keeper Vorthak: "Then let us hear the distinction. Plainly, and in full, without the archive's customary habit of beginning in the middle of what it means to say. The stone of this chamber keeps…
- ¶61…, where the unnamed color continued its patient, undimmed persistence, and then looked at Ancient Keeper Vorthak with an expression that carried no alarm and no relief, only the careful neutrality of a…