Role

Chapter 2

Earning Her Chosen Name, as told by Rusenlan :

I do not know why I did it. I do not know how. But my song
brought life. My Sister had taken a severe wound from a
sus'tad, and her blood drenched the bandages fast, no matter
how tight or fast I bound her wounds.

Then she stopped breathing, her grasp on me loosened. I knew
she was no more. I laid her down, and I sang my heart out,
our song of childhood, only she and I knew. I do not know
how, but she stirred, as if my song had the power of life in
it. I knew I had to sing on. My Brothers only stared. I think
it went on for many hours, and I cannot remember too clearly.
But my Brothers uttered these two words upon their lips,
'SevenSong', 'SevenSong'. And I knew my Chosen Name had been
given.

I felt a stirring in my spirit, a deep sense of pride. A pride
in my heritage, culture, people and self. And I knew my stars
had been born, as with all when their Chosen Name is earned.

Many dreams did I have after. Dreams of drum and flute, of
war songs on bloodied fields. I have chosen Lord Kastellyn to
be my Guide, as all must when their Chosen Name is earned.
The Wise Women say our Lord is related to our Name somehow. I
do not know if my Lord is a songsmith, but the Wise Women tell
me I must go forth to this Inner Land Muelin has been telling
me about.

There is a war I must fight there, in a Village led by my Lord.
No one in my tribes have followed Lord Kastellyn for many ages,
none know much about the Inner Land. But I have been called to
war there, I know I must go tonight.