Eliath Drace is Luma’s great-grandfather, the father of Mathas Drace. He disappeared in the Elder Exodus.1 Luma never met him.2 He is the reason she became a cartographer.1

Biography

Session 9

Luma told the party that he had left in the Exodus, and that she had never met him. From the stories she had heard, he was not self-centered.2

Session 13

Luma knew her grandfather Mathas’s firsthand account of the Exodus: he watched his father simply walk out.3

Session 14

On the night of the Vigil of Remembrance, 1714 PSF, Luma received a parcel from Mathas holding a letter Eliath had written to him, dated 3 Dimming, 1654, sixty years earlier, with a sketch.1 It is the only word Luma has ever had from him, and shows that he was alive sixty years after the Exodus. She thinks he might still be out there.1

In the letter Eliath wrote that his memory was not what it once was, and that in trance he kept returning to a grove where he and Mathas once got lost. The rot had reached the roots of the great tree at its heart. He asked Mathas to take the sketch, walk the old paths and find the rot before it spread, and, if Mathas could not, to pass the charge to his own children (see Eliath's Letter to Mathas (Handout)).1

Mathas had not taken it up, probably, Luma thought, because he believes his father is crazy. She does not.1 Mathas told her not to act on it.1 Neither Mathas nor Luma’s father had ever mentioned the grove, and Mathas wrote that he did not remember any of it.1

The next evening Luma worked out that the sketch is a perfect, to-scale map of Argentum and the Silver Vale: the great tree is Argentum, and the towering elders are the Vale’s towers.1

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Footnotes

  1. Session 14 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  2. Session 9 ↩ ↩2

  3. Session 13 ↩