Oaths

It does not point north

The shard-compass is splinters of Glass Oath in leather, tuned to the Pi Gate under Cock Fortress. Turn it. When it tugs close to a house, the house answers.

tug

The tug lands

House of Cock

Crowmania. Cock Castle, Roost Keep, Cock Harbor, Pilgrim’s Gate, and the fortress on the Throat.

Primary forces

Holy and Void have agendas. They are not automatic moral alignments. Nothing here has a level.

Speed, silence, absence, and merciful escape. An agenda, not a morality. Yezmir’s country.

What the words are holding

  • Glass Oath

    A binding spiritual contract. Power comes through an element, a deity, or a governing principle, and every oath carries an obligation. Breaking one, bending one, or exploiting one has a spiritual cost and a practical one.

  • Echo

    The pressure of a person’s power, emotion, oath-condition, and intent. Echoes are sensed. They are never measured as a number.

  • Pi Gate

    A sealed threshold under the deeper conflict. Old warnings say it is not opened by force, blood, or command. It judges.

  • Shard-compass

    Splinters of Glass Oath bound in leather and thread, tuned to the Pi Gate beneath Cock Fortress. Less a north and more a home-note. It tugs.

  • Choice-trace

    The residue of a consequential decision: oath, betrayal, mercy, refusal, or sacrifice.

  • Arcolos

    AR-koh-lohs. Holy god of Squack’Ka’Saar. Dawn, oath, judgment, protection, and the terrible mercy of light.