Eamon Bronzegate

[Random_White_Guy]

Eamon Bronzegate,

Do forgive the delay in our meeting, as I was in Ka'esh seeking to stymie the maladies of greed and more that had befallen so many of Ephia's Well. To watch a daywalker, and servitor of the Sultan's Janissary, have his eye and leg removed for some esoteric magic of regeneration. It showed such a depth of desperation. The rest of my night was spent praying for him.

To your question there is no eighth day, upon the seventh it begins a new. This can be difficult for some of the dwellers of the Outring unfamiliar with the days, weeks, and months of the year but in Baz'eel these things meticulously respected and considered of the Spokes.

It is one of the services the Great Temple of B'aara provides, along with ensuring that if none are able to find a priest of their Spoke, that our Clergy serve as interim and offer counsel based upon that spoke, and similar workings of faith and civil service.

This is what it means to serve the Overgod of the Wheel.

If more questions arise I welcome you to seek me.

Magistrate Gausim al-Marain
Honored Water Bearer of the Great Temple of Baz'eel
First of the First Seat

[Hierophant]

Magistrate Gausim al-Marain,

It is a noble thing you do, and I truly hope you do not mean to say one of the Fourth were present in Kha'esh, taking part?

Other matters, I had read the memoir of a young pasha in the Sultan's Janissary, namesake Albert of Yorke. He wrote of the old wars with the Thousand Clans and of the Eternal Peace, a mockingly named accord for the peace purchased with Sultan Osman IV's own tears, as he wept for all whom were lost.

In it, he mentions on the eighth day, and I quote, "They came at dawn on the eighth day of the Water Devotions. The Sultan led the faithful in the dawn prayer while my Legion held the watch of the North Gate."

If you like, I could bring the memoir to you to borrow and study. It appalls me, once refugee as I am how little I truly know of the Wheel, beyond the Spoke I've dedicated the last ten or so years to. Though epiphany found only recently, where I felt truly pious for the first time in a long time. In the days before the Ringfall, I worshipped a False Trinity of Gods, and what I felt during that time where many of me and mine found our way first into the sands, running from that encroaching cloud of despair, was betrayal. It was when I came across a tattered Wheel, and old words. They had broken down their caravan and as customary to them, removed one of the wheels and erected a shrine. The words were so, "The Wanderer wards least of all, betrayers."

Beyond our tenets, our scriptures do not come in roves of pamphlets nor ceremony in the likes of Mother B'aara, but in the words strewn across the land and upon our shrines. "The Wanderer's word ne'er broken, ne'er false."

But I wish to know, honored Waterbearer. What does the young warrior speak of, when he writes of the eighth day?

Walk after Warad.

E. Bronzegate

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[Random_White_Guy]

Eamon,

I fear one was, yes. A halfling as they are called from the Outer Rings or beyond. Business most grim.

As for your inquiry - The sacred rite of Water Devotions are an intricate and complex weaving of rite, ritual, and practical prayer in which the pious genuflect and reflect. For days on end they would be offered to the Mother. As signs of just as they are called - devotion.

In this instance I would not know without further understanding of the piece, but from context clues it lends that there were eight days in a row of devotions. So before the ninth day of devotions, but after the seventh, they were come upon. The Dawn Prayer is a sacred thing, warding away of Pra'raj and thanking B'aara for the sable cloak of night that ensures our safety, survival and protection from his furious menace. A suitable thing for the Sultan to bless his troops with before a fierce battle - especially if they are to be fighting during the accursed daylit hours or close to the Witching Hour in the time of no shadows, upon the twelfth hour.

I hope this may lend some insight.

Though do not discount the Waradim. For while your newfound faith may see you all travel far, wide, low, and high - there is ample ceremony. Numerous rites. For these things the foundational stones of faith. Be it upon camp, caravan, or city. Any time you wish we may speak more on such.

Magistrate Gausim al Marain
Honored Water Bearer of the Great Temple of Baz'eel
First of the First Seat