The Children of the Road

The Children of the Road are those whom Arheled calls every hundred years just before the Road returns, to walk the Road and be taught the legend of the Rebellion of the Stars. Usually these number three; the only ones we have reliable information for are from the last four Returnings of the Road, their members chosen mostly from the Houses of Lane and Midwinter. In the Return of the Road in 2011, however, the Children numbered six.

To be Called, the candidate must share the Sight, a certain way of looking at the world and percieving reality usually best exemplified by poets and imaginative people. Ordinarily Arheled only speaks to them and gives them great wisdom, from which at times they have exerted influence on the world around them; but sometimes, in eras of great peril, the Road has been known to grant them powers.

The Six of 2011 were among this latter. The Road gave them strange and unpredictable powers it had never spun out before: power to pierce and see, to vanish and reveal, to call and summon the elements and the things not of the elements. These are discussed under each character's article.

Children of the Road:

1611: Wayham Lane and two unknowns

1711: Roderik Lane, Temple Midwinter and one unknown

1811: Paulham Lane, Roy Midwinter and Samuel Edgeworthy

1911: Heden Midwinter, Ronnie Wendai Lane, William Cairns of Ireland

2011: Ronnie Wendy, Lara Midwinter, Bell Light, Brooke Pond, Forest Lake, Travel Lane

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