Llarimar
also known as Scoot
Lightsong's high priest — tall, portly, bespectacled, hands hidden in the deep sleeves of his gold and red robes. He carries a thick tome to every audience and writes down every dream his god remembers, every word his god gives an Offering, with unfailing politeness. He refuses, point-blank, to speak to his god of the life Lightsong led before he Returned. STD:WB:Ch 3
Known facts
- knew-lightsong-beforeLightsong catches him out: Llarimar knew him before his death and chose to be his priest because of it. Llarimar refuses to say anything more, including how Lightsong died.STD:WB:Ch 18
- was-lightsongs-brother-in-lifeLlarimar reveals to Lightsong in the dungeon cells that in life he was Llarimar's brother — a scribe named *Stennimar*, an accountant for a moneylender — and that he died rescuing Llarimar's young daughter, the girl he keeps seeing in his visions.STD:WB:Ch 53
- faith-restored-by-his-brothers-returnLlarimar had served as a priest in Kindwinds the Honest's palace and was losing his faith, watching his god lie for political advantage. He was kneeling over his brother's dead body, weeping and ready to resign his priesthood, when the Colors began to glow and Stennimar Returned in front of him. That moment gave him his faith back.STD:WB:Ch 53
Events
- STD:WB:Ch 3 Sits beside Lightsong through dream-recording, feeding, and the morning's Offerings — enduring the nickname "Scoot" with a quiet stare and never breaking the rule against speaking of his god's life before the Return.
- STD:WB:Ch 5 Stands at Lightsong's elbow on the patio in full priestly regalia, eventually sits down and pulls off his sweat-soaked mitre, and worries aloud that the court has not had a queen in thirty years and the factions will not handle her well.
- STD:WB:Ch 7 Walks into Lightsong's ring of torches in full priestly robes during the festivities, fusses over his god's comfort, and is sent back into the city to enjoy the night with his family.
- STD:WB:Ch 12 Stands at Lightsong's elbow during the petition session and offers no chastisement when his god storms off, only quiet doctrine about hope.
- STD:WB:Ch 12 Joins Lightsong at the patio railing and explains the Returned's theology — purpose, fragmented memory, the Iridescent Wave — then agrees to set up a shared box with Blushweaver at the next Court Assembly.
- STD:WB:Ch 14 Walks beside Lightsong under the canopy on the way to the arena, defending Returned doctrine against his god's mock-attacks.
- STD:WB:Ch 14 Stands with the rest of the priests beside Blushweaver's green-pavilioned box, flushing when his god outs his weather-blaming and otherwise watching in silence.
- STD:WB:Ch 18 Dismisses Lightsong's servants, sits on the low table by the bed, and patiently talks his god back into the day — without giving away anything of Lightsong's former life despite being pressed.
- STD:WB:Ch 22 Stands with Lightsong's retinue inside the balcony palace and is collected on the way out, without conversation — Lightsong is too distracted to talk to him.
- STD:WB:Ch 23 Quietly follows Lightsong into Mercystar's palace, watches him interrogate the Mercystar priests and reason out the intruder with unaccustomed sharpness, and gives him an unreadable look the entire walk back.
- STD:WB:Ch 26 Sees nothing but red brushstrokes where Lightsong sees a woman with a black sword, and is troubled by his god's enthusiasm for a war scene.
- STD:WB:Ch 26 Follows Lightsong through the investigation, nudges him toward reading the morning's painting as a prophecy, and refuses to confirm what kind of man he once was.
- STD:WB:Ch 27 Provides the names and dates Lightsong cannot bother to remember — Susebron the Fourth, the distrentia plague, the year of the marriage and the year of the heir — and smiles at the queen with something close to apology for his god.
- STD:WB:Ch 38 Stands at the bedside with a junior scribe, hears Lightsong's curated list of dream images, and quietly orders the urns and pebbles without asking what they are for.
- STD:WB:Ch 38 Stands beside Lightsong's chair, organises the servants who count pebbles by colour, and delivers the tally that shows Mercystar receiving a fraction of the priest traffic of the other gods.
- STD:WB:Ch 42 Stays beside Lightsong through the siege of Allmother's palace, flatly observing that this is not the comportment he hinted he was about to embrace.
- STD:WB:Ch 46 Joins Lightsong on the palace roof and weathers his god's anxious thinking with the same maddening calm as always; under sustained questioning, finally admits — quietly — that the young woman of Lightsong's dreams was not his wife, not his lover, but was very important to him, and is still alive.
- STD:WB:Ch 46 Walks the long covered approach to the Lifeless Enclave at his god's side, then is dismissed from the warehouse before Lightsong speaks the new phrase; accepts the dismissal without protest.
- STD:WB:Ch 49 Returns from the arena floor, kneels before Lightsong, and asks him for his verdict on war; receives no answer, and trails his god to Blushweaver's pavilion and then back to his palace.
- STD:WB:Ch 51 Sits on a stool beside Lightsong's couch as the room fills with the god's piled wealth, listens to him confess his sense that something larger is in motion, and quietly tells him a thing is worth what it is treated as worth.
- STD:WB:Ch 51 Follows Lightsong into the bushes against his better judgement, cursing for the first time Lightsong can remember as the god dashes for the window.
- STD:WB:Ch 51 Squeezes through the small crawlway after Lightsong, crumbles dirt from the new tunnel walls to date them, identifies the Lifeless barracks above them by their likely trajectory.
- STD:WB:Ch 51 Tries his own heroic tackle of one of the soldiers in the dungeon and is no more effective at it than Lightsong was, then is pinned along with his god.
- STD:WB:Ch 53 In the next cage, breaking finally — bellows at Lightsong that he was a scribe, not a soldier or a detective, and that every time he charges in without thinking Llarimar ends up in prison with him. Threatened with the knife to break Lightsong into giving up his Command phrase.
- STD:WB:Ch 53 Tells Lightsong in the cells, looking at the lantern, that in life he was a scribe named *Stennimar* — and Llarimar's own brother. The girl in his visions is Llarimar's daughter. *You are a god,* he says. *To me, at least.*
- STD:WB:Ch 54 Still in the cage beside Lightsong as the god finally sees what has been off about their captors' faces and identifies them as Pahn Kahl in disguise.
- STD:WB:Ch 55 With the rest of the priests across the cell room from Lightsong's cage.
- STD:WB:Ch 57 In his own cell across the room from Lightsong, eyes closed against the terrors around them.
- STD:WB:Ch 57 Still in his cell with eyes closed, weeping. Younger, in the storm memory, yelling for help at the prow of the *Red Panther* as the squall breaks over them.
- STD:WB:Ch 58 Holding his brother's head in his lap, smiling through tears, and tells Siri and Susebron that Lightsong gave his life twice.
Backreferences
- summarySTD:WB:Ch 3
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- factReturned
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- factSusebron the Fourth
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- factKindwinds the Honest
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- factRed Panther
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