skop
A travelling poet whose craft includes boasts: paired alliterative half-lines, declaimed with both hands raised and thumbs touching, used as the working tool of the trade against beings such as aelvs. STD:FWH:Ch 4
Known facts
- heritage-from-friagThe skops are Friag's heritage — Sefawynn's own framing. They direct wyrd and protect the land from bogs in place of the runes Friag once gave to mortals, and they remember what the runes could no longer be set to remember. Some in Weswara whisper that the skops serve Logna instead; Sefawynn rejects that, and waits, with the rest of her order, for Woden's forgiveness.STD:FWH:Ch 13
- status-grants-safe-passage-from-banditsThe skop's name protects on a Weswaran road where almost nothing else does. When Sefawynn tells the lord-bandit leading the road-shakedown what she is, several of his men back away muttering; the lord himself waves her through without toll, on the principle that the storybearer's road is the bandit's road. The rest of the party pays double for being rich.STD:FWH:Ch 25
Backreferences
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 4
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 6
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 8
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 13
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 18
- factSefawynn
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 24
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 25
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 30
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 31
- factMaelport Runestone
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 35
- factSefawynn
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 37