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
Her people
The ones who mattered.
Swipe to meet them all
The one they faced.
The one they faced
The enemy whose war finally reached the khaganate's proud skies.
Swipe to meet them all
What she loves
Keeper of the old things.
The hearth-mother of the aerie — half rider, half memory, keeper of the histories most of the empire chose to forget.
The ruks
The great birds she has flown a lifetime. There is no her without the sky and the wingbeat.
The old stories
The Valg wars. The Fae. The sttörmhïr. She keeps them so the young do not learn them the hard way.
The mountains
Home is high and cold and hers — the aerie she tends and the riders it raises.
The young riders
Sartaq among them. She trains them sharp and sends them out. That is love, the aerie way.
The old stories, and the ruks that carry them
She is the one who remembers when everyone else moved on. The Valg, the Fae, the buried truths the empire treats as bedtime tales — she knows exactly why they are not. She carries them the way she flies: like it matters, like someone has to. And she hands them down to the next rider before her own turn to forget ever comes.
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