Appendix III
The Annals of the Firaithi EldersThe following accounts were taken down by Arkady Svalbarad on his first journey with the Firaithi Kindred of Chandra, after he was adopted by Tane Grigor Adaryi. During the three weeks he rode with the Chandrathi, Arkady questioned the Elders of the Kindred on the original homelands of the Firaithi. The Elders have no written histories, but Arkady developed a simple alphabet to transcribe their tales, and they are set down here as he heard them.
Kyan Dewi’s account of the Quondam — the time before the Firaithi came west to YrIn the time of aza’thuwlas, there were many more of the Kindreds than there are now. We were innumerable as the stars in the sky, or the grains of sand on the beach. Of our original name it is not permitted to speak, but
