Allmother
A Returned of the Court of Gods who holds one of the four sets of Lifeless Commands. Mercystar is visiting her when Lightsong arrives to investigate the murder; he notes she hates him violently, and that Blushweaver has clearly begun her round of recruiting her, too. STD:WB:Ch 27
Known facts
- holds-lifeless-commandsOne of the four Returned who hold a set of Lifeless Commands. She hates Lightsong violently and is therefore the next god Blushweaver must work on.STD:WB:Ch 27
- holds-fourth-lifeless-commandsAllmother holds the fourth of the four sets of Lifeless Commands — ten thousand soldiers — and has refused Blushweaver's request to hand the security phrases over. Lightsong notes that giving the Commands to the goddess of matrons and families fits the priesthood's pattern about as poorly as everything else they do.STD:WB:Ch 34
- lifeless-commands-shared-with-god-king-and-priestessesThe security phrases for Allmother's ten thousand Lifeless are not held by her alone: the God King and several of her own priestesses also carry them, so a single assassination cannot strand her quarter of Hallandren's armies.STD:WB:Ch 38
- foresaw-lightsong-in-paintingsAllmother saw Lightsong's arrival in her week of prophetic paintings — circles of red and gold, his colours, recurring across the canvases — and turns the audience that started as an upbraiding into a deliberate transfer: she gives him her own Lifeless command-phrase, *verdant bells*, so that two of the four sets now move together.STD:WB:Ch 42
Events
- STD:WB:Ch 42 Receives a lame Idrian dock-worker with real generosity, then admits Lightsong to a side chamber and — after upbraiding him — gives him her own Lifeless command-phrase *verdant bells*.
Backreferences
- summarySTD:WB:Ch 34
- factBlushweaver the Beautiful
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- summarySTD:WB:Ch 38
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- summarySTD:WB:Ch 42
- factReturned
- factLightsong
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- factAllmother's Palace
- summarySTD:WB:Ch 46
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