Elder ThossCharacter
Elder Thoss is an elder among the Peakwalkers, possessing knowledge of ancient songs said to call down objects that should remain suspended in the sky. They are able to arrange stones that glow with an inner light, working in concert with other Peakwalkers in ritual practice.
Where it appears (32 mentions in 1 book)
Found Journal of a Traveler · 32 mentions Read the book →
- ¶15Elder Thoss: "In my grandfather's grandfather's time, we knew the songs that could call down what should stay suspended. Tonight, something calls back."
- ¶18The pattern of stones Elder Thoss had arranged began to glow with their own inner light, each one pulsing in sequence as the harmonized humming of the other Peakwalkers reached a crescendo.
- ¶20…atchel remained strapped to their back. The other Peakwalkers had begun to back away from Elder Thoss's stone circle, their faces etched with expressions of reverence mixed with terror.
- ¶22…a fourth revolution begun without pause, and the Peakwalkers who had been retreating from Elder Thoss's circle halted entirely, as though their feet had been pressed into the stone beneath them…
- ¶25…ressed their palms flat against their ears, though the gesture seemed to bring no relief. Elder Thoss alone did not flinch, standing with arms still raised and face tilted upward, receiving t…
- ¶29Elder Thoss lowered both arms with a slowness that seemed less like choice and more like the gradual release of a great and held effort. The elder's lips moved in a count, and those near enou…
- ¶30Elder Thoss: "Four hundred and twelve Cycles, Walker. Four hundred and twelve, and seven Spanths beside."
- ¶32The silence that followed Elder Thoss's accounting was not the silence of emptiness. It was the silence of a room in which many things have been said and none of them yet answered. The transmut…
- ¶35Elder Thoss did not answer at once. The elder turned toward the remnant embers of the fire, and the lined face in that dim glow was the face of someone performing a careful arithmetic of what…
- ¶36Elder Thoss: "The Singing Stones of Vorthak sang for two hundred Cycles after you ascended, Walker. Then the great subsidence took the chamber that held them. What remains is rubble and, some…
- ¶37…d flat against the mountainside stone, and the younger Peakwalkers who had withdrawn from Elder Thoss's circle stood where they had stopped, none of them yet willing to test whether the freedom…
- ¶40…utward through the thickened air with a clarity that seemed disproportionate to its size. Elder Thoss did not look toward any of them. The elder's gaze remained upon the crystal above, where…
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