Houlun

The danger finally had a name because one old woman by a fire still remembered the story everyone else had let themselves forget.

Houlun is the hearth-mother of the Eridun rukhin and a sacred Story Keeper of the Southern Continent, in Tower of Dawn — the woman Prince Sartaq counts as his true mother, whose memory holds the histories no one else kept.

At a glance

KIND: Human elder — no combat magic
LEADS: The Eridun rukhin — ruk-riders of the Tavan Mountains
GIFT: Story Keeper — keeper of the true histories
SENSES: Storms, and ancient evil, from far off
TO SARTAQ: The mother he claims over the Grand Empress
GRANDMOTHER OF: Borte, her heir
NAMES: The kharankui — the Valg spiders in the peaks
GIVES: The thread the whole war follows

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Houlun

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