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About Mephala's Assistants

A discussion of Mephala's three agents

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Introduction

"No Blood No Sand" is known as far more than just a phrase that finds use by the faithful beyond the world of the great Lord.

It has a core of truth.

A core, to which we will devote our attention now:

Of the three which call themselves Mephala's agents, the first mentioned is Skent.

Skent (Mephala's Tongue), is evident in the stories as a nimble liar and crook who persuades mortals to give their lives in exchange for their happiness.

He appears in various guises (see also: The sinking of the Na'bit) and elicits thirst for knowledge (as in the parable of the Abadan druids) or daring fools (the Thorgalf narrative) a promise from which to pay the debtor ultimately with death.

He is also considered Mephala's bait which appears where the Lord of the Threads acts on lives to organize the threads of fate again. Rarely, however, someone survives the encounter with the Skent, who seems a master of all the questions and master of all words by many to be too tempting rather than taking a chance on a weighty answer.

The second is known to us as Anaydayama, 'The White Sand' and Mephala's vengeance demon. The demon appears in stories, legends and tales as a storm of sharp ivory splinters of the soul and pulls flesh from the bones of mortals (see also the sinking of the Mepahalist ruins).

In other stories, Anaydayama emerges as a storm of shell splinters. It is not sure which is now the vengeance demon's true form, but it is sure that the storm is caused by an enraged Lord of the Threads and the fate of mortals.

In this way is Anaydayama directed, without regret and without distinction.

The third creature of Mephala's mentioned is the 'Lady of the Threads'. As guardian of Mephala's dead world, she sucks the souls of mortals to hand them over to the thread-master.

Her true form is considered controversial, even if it is (see The Death of the Small Elephants), presented as cruel spider creature, it is also vigilant in Mephala's realm of the dead and doesn't go out among mortals.

Nevertheless, the superstitious belief remains in the 'Crawler' that always woos Mephala's favor and the night itself goes on sleeping.

True cases of mortals who lost their soul in a dream, but we are not familiar.

Under the circumstances, it remains to assume that the 'Mistress of the Threads' never leaves her empire.