WakeConcept
Wake is the term used in IntEarth for the period of day, equivalent to daytime, when Lum provides light. It is also used as a general unit marking the passage of days, as in Expos noting that each Wake they woke expecting their successor to arrive.
Where it appears (32 mentions in 5 books)
Found Journal of a Traveler · 5 mentions Read the book →
- ¶12…debris while reciting cautionary rhymes about the dangers of climbing too high. On clear Wakes, when Lum's radiance dimmed to its gentlest phase, one could see the trapped objects glin…
- ¶13…trapped there for over fifty Cycles showed no signs of decay, its spokes as sturdy as the Wake it first ascended. Yet a crystal pendant that had fallen from a sky-sailor's neck only th…
- ¶56…oes not matter. But you wear the same stone-pattern at your collar that the elder of that Wake wore, and you knew to arrange the stones as they were arranged for me. Which means the kn…
- ¶58…ood where you last saw my ancestor's ancestor and walked back down the mountain that same Wake to write the arrangement of the stones in a language only our lineage is taught to read.…
Expos-Zeshin · 2 mentions Read the book →
- ¶18…les, watched civilizations rise and crumble through the tower's highest windows. Yet each Wake I woke knowing this would be the Wake you arrived, until I began to wonder if knowing and…
A Wizard's Journey · 17 mentions Read the book →
- ¶2…and the people of these villages lived simple, contented lives. In one such village, on a Wake unlike any other, Lum burned brighter than it ever had before.
- ¶3…eings into a single act of unity, leaving nothing preserved for themselves. When the next Wake arrived, Dorn and Joan were gone, and a baby lay alone in a field.
- ¶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 la…
- ¶22…o Moondor, was assembled. They established a calendar based on the rhythm of their world. Each Wake and Leep spanned twelve Lumers. A Spanth was thirty six Wakes and Leeps, and a Cycle was…
- ¶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 to…
- ¶27…his hands pressed hard against his ears. In a desperate cry, he raised his voice into the Wakes and shouted, "Silence!" At once, the world obeyed. The woods grew still. The Exhale of th…
- ¶39The voice: "I am Dirnu, fastened to truth. I am the god of nature and from this Wake forward you will be known as East Father of Dirn. I created the creatures of the world and the plan…
- ¶151Egast was still two Wakes' walk from the town of Farveal and he was a little restless to get there. No definitive path had been made yet but there were some markings throughout the fores…
- ¶201"Of course, a person came through one Wake with a cloaked companion, The person said that he would become the ruler of these lands and in time all of the lands. I told him I was the ru…
- ¶311…ll. The other villagers whispered of strange lights glimpsed through the forest canopy on Wakes when Egast wandered longest, of how the milk cows gave richer cream after the boy had wal…
- ¶318…hey would carry whispers of it back to their own peoples when they departed with the next Wake's light.
- ¶335…ion, and left it there, and closed the book over it, and did not open it again before the Wake came.
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The Castle of Wizards · 6 mentions Read the book →
- ¶15…pper-Robed Observer: "The last time these trials were invoked, the Castle shook for seven Wakes afterward, and three entire libraries relocated themselves to the deepest vaults to escap…
- ¶24…wed him visions of what his ambition would cost. He withdrew from consideration that very Wake and spent the remainder of his years tending the Memorial Gardens in the deepest vaults."
- ¶33…eads those records in forty Cycles, or four hundred, understand that we were here on this Wake, in this chamber, and that we knew what the unnamed color meant and chose to govern anywa…
- ¶43…re the stone was touched, before the quicksilver turned, before any of us arrived on this Wake. What happens next will not be decided by the platforms or the pool. It will be decided b…
- ¶49…l were simply another material with properties worth understanding, and the events of the Wake were simply another set of data to be worked into the record that stone keeps for itself,…
- ¶60…he archive's account of what happened in the two prior elections you have referenced this Wake. It is the account of the one who stood where Wizard Dump and Wizard Lary stand now, on b…
Authorian Paladin · 2 mentions Read the book →
- ¶20…stillness heavier than any chant or clash of arms. For a moment, it seemed as if even the Wakes themselves paused, as if the very fabric of Intearth waited to hear the Author's answer.…
- ¶82…along its full length with the same deep amber light that Lum cast on its most unhurried Wakes, except that this light came from below, rising upward through solid stone as water rises…