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therefore, in humility and in patience.
The sight first came to the woman called Ninal. Now
Ninal had been a wife and a mother, but when the sight
came to her, she turned forever from her husband and
children. And the rapture of seeing brought her to her feet,
and to darken her eyes against the common light of day
that she might more clearly see what the sight revealed to
her, she bound a cloth about her eyes. And from that day
until her last, Ninal never again unbound her eyes. And
she spake unto the people of what had been revealed to
her. And the people listened in wonder as she told them of
the Feast of Life and of the Beloved Guest who would one
day come. And all knew that her words were truth
because of the way her voice reached into their hearts.
And when Ninal had finished speaking, the people stood
in awe of her - all save one.
Among the people at that time there was an unfortunate
man called jord. And he was taller than any other man
and his thews were mighty But Jord had never spoken or
uttered a single sound since the day of his birth- And Jord
took up a staff from the earth and went with it to Ninal and
put her hand upon the staff and led her out from the midst
of the people. And ever after, Ninal and Jord dwelt apart
from the people, and he cared for her and protected her
from all harm, and though she may have revealed many
secrets to him, those secrets were forever locked behind his
silent lips. And it hath ever been thus: for every Seer upon
whom the sight descends there is a mute to be the guide
and protector.
In the years that followed the great revelation, the
Seeress Ninal spoke unto the people many times, and the
words she spoke were sometimes clear and sometimes
dark and obscure. And in time the Sight descended upon
others, and they too bound their eyes against the common
light that they might better see; and for each of them as
well a mute came forth to guide and protect. Now some of
the Seers spoke of the revelation which had come to Ninal,
and others spoke to other matters. Some spoke clearly
while the words of others were a mystery.
But because she was the first and because the great
revelation came first to her, the Seers of the First Age of
man are called the Generations of Ninal in her honor. And
when she was old and filled with years, the Seeress Ninal
died, and within the same hour mute jord also passed
from this earth, and they were buried side by side in great
honor.
And the Seers aided the scholars who sought to read the
Book of the Heavens and those who sought to translate the
words spoken in the voices of the rocks. And we
discovered that the Seers could speak to each other over great
distances and that they seemed all to share in one
universal
soul which was the source of the Sight; but they spoke
not of this, and our questions remained unanswered.
Now it came to pass that the Generations of Ninal
ended with the end of the First Age, and the Generations