EgastCharacter
Egast is the son of Erik, named by him but a disappointment to his father's expectations. Unlike the large and bold Erik, Egast is scrawny, articulate, and cautious. He appears as a young person who observes the world carefully, as shown by his studious interest in cows enduring winter Cycles.
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- ¶5Erik named the child Egast. Egast never became the child Erik had hoped for. Erik was a large man, known to many as a bold risk-taker, while Egast was scrawny, articulate, cautious, and…
- ¶8Egast found the cows fascinating. He stood at the fence and studied them, noting how they endured the cold of the winter Cycles without any covering upon their skin.
- ¶10Egast: "Erik, could I have one of these cows?"
- ¶12Egast: "I want to see what their hide is like."
- ¶15Egast walked into his father's field that same Wake. He sat on the fence and observed the cows for some time. As the great shadow of the stasis-bound beast began to drift across the lan…
- ¶16Toward the back of the herd was a fully grown cow, slim, almost sickly in appearance. Egast doubted it would survive the cold cycle ahead, even if left alone. He approached it gently, p…
- ¶17…, gaudy-looking book. Though his people already had a written language carved into stone, Egast became the first to put words on skin, using a branch from a coalwood tree, charred at th…
- ¶18Using the book and coalwood branch, Egast began documenting the animals he observed in the wild. It is thanks to him that many of that region's creatures were recorded and illustrated i…
- ¶23It was Cycle Seventeen, Egast had reached the age of twenty. By then, he had documented nearly every creature that inhabited Moondor and Tresor. His journey had taken him often to Treso…
- ¶24One Wake, on his way back to Moondor, Egast came across a tree unlike any he had seen before. It seemed to glow faintly, almost whispering to him with an unseen voice: "Come to me. Come…
- ¶27Egast returned to his dwelling and carried on as though nothing had transpired. He awoke to heavy breathing though this time it was not his father's. Upon further observation he came to…
- ¶28…heavier than before, stripping them of their usual comfort. Yet the opposite proved true. Egast felt at peace beneath their canopy. Not only did he sense the lifeforce weaving through r…
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