House of Chains | |
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Dramatis Personae | Prologue |
Faces in the Rock | |
Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 |
Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 |
Cold Iron | |
Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 |
Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 |
Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 |
Chapter 11 | |
Something Breathes | |
Chapter 12 | Chapter 13 |
Chapter 14 | Chapter 15 |
Chapter 16 | Chapter 17 |
House of Chains | |
Chapter 18 | Chapter 19 |
Chapter 20 | Chapter 21 |
Chapter 22 | Chapter 23 |
Chapter 24 | Chapter 25 |
Chapter 26 | |
Epilogue | Pagination |
Epigraph |
In the oldest, most fragmentary of texts, will be found obscure mention of the Eres'al, a name that seems to refer to those most ancient of spirits that are the essence of the physical world. There is, of course, no empirical means of determining whether the attribution of meaning—the power inherent in making symbols of the inanimate—was causative, in essence the creative force behind the Eres'al; or if some other mysterious power was involved, inviting the accretion of meaning and significance by intelligent forms of life at some later date. Kellarstellis of Li Heng |