'Sword encrusted with a line of stars fashioned from small pieces of crude glintstone. Weapon of the demi-human swordsmen. When bestowed with this weapon by their queen, the swordsmen swear to find the truth that lies at the end of the procession of stars.' The Demi-Human Swordsmen are the Realm of Shadow's surprising astronomers. The Demi-Human queens, sneered at by Raya Lucaria for their low intelligence and crude scepters, secretly raised a knightly order whose oath was unaccountably grand : to follow the stars to the end of their procession and find the truth there. The Star-Lined Sword is the queen's bestowal, a long blade encrusted with crude glintstone in a line that mimics constellations.

'Ashen remains in which spirits yet dwell. Use to summon the spirit of Yosh, the demi-human swordsman. Onze, a master swordsman who devoted himself to the Star-Lined Sword, realized that only ruin awaited at the end of the procession of stars, and imprisoned himself in order to forestall it. However, Yosh, an apprentice who absorbed his technique, stubbornly refused to heed his master's words, and spent entire his life at his side, in defiance of his self-imposed seclusion.' The order's tragedy is precise. Onze, the master, followed the stars to their conclusion and saw ruin there ; he imprisoned himself rather than let the procession finish. Yosh, his apprentice, refused to leave his master's side and lived his entire life beside the imprisoned man, defying the seclusion. The Tarnished may summon Yosh's ghost, the apprentice's last record of a master who saw what the academies missed and chose, alone, to be the one whose vision did not become history.

◆ Sources

WeaponStar-Lined Sword

Sword encrusted with a line of stars fashioned from small pieces of crude glintstone. Weapon of the demi-human swordsmen. When bestowed with this weapon by their queen, the swordsmen swear to find the truth that lies at the end of the procession of stars.

Spirit AshDemi-Human Swordsman Yosh

Ashen remains in which spirits yet dwell. Use to summon the spirit of Yosh, the demi-human swordsman. Onze, a master swordsman who devoted himself to the Star-Lined Sword, realized that only ruin awaited at the end of the procession of stars, and imprisoned himself in order to forestall it. However, Yosh, an apprentice who absorbed his technique, stubbornly refused to heed his master's words, and spent entire his life at his side, in defiance of his self-imposed seclusion.