New beginnings are always exciting, aren't they? Setting out for a new frontier, an unexplored horizon, or turning over a new leaf. That feeling is no doubt shared with Tenet, the main character from Tenet's Tale, by Brannon. Dive into the whirling gears of the Queen's Intelligencer below with this exclusive Wandering Men excerpt into the final of the Skein of Shadows novellas, Tenet's Tale:
Lastday, 28th of Sumborok, just past midnight Temple of the Lost, Ethereal Citadel
My thinly-lidded eyes fluttered open; I could rest no more. Technically, we ethereans do not sleep as do the mortal races. We grow weary, yes, but we do not sleep. Some say this has to do with our intrinsic, divine ties to the banished gods; others name it a curse and a burden that my kind must bear. Who may be right, I think, we shall never know.
Nevertheless, it is true that my kind must periodically return to our place of origin, the Ethereal Plane or we fade. In Feridar, the etherean's native tongue, this fading is called yil'ya a'feth, or bond trance. It is a condition that abandons ethereans, unconscious and defenseless, in the physical world. We remain thusly until drawn home by the Ethereal Plane itself or by the act of someone in the physical realm.
Regardless, I could rest no more, nor could I continue to hide. The times are rare, but occasionally, I wish I could lie, if only to myself. Ethereans cannot lie
