Lore
Gifts of the Thread
Atop A Wall · Book 1
What the Thread can do, from a feel for the weather to the rare gift of healing.
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No two people carry the Thread in quite the same way. What a bearer can do depends on their age, their nature, their practice, and their will. Nobody can do everything.
Some gifts arrive quietly, before a bearer even knows what they have: sharper senses, a feel for weather before it turns, the faint tremble of footsteps through stone, a body that shrugs off poison. Some bearers can glow blue when they choose to, which is lovely and very hard to hide.
With time and freedom, most bearers grow into a few more. Moving things without touching them is the best known. Others coax plants to grow, mend their own hurts faster than they should, see in near darkness, or calm a frightened animal.
Healing someone else is harder. The Thread has to reach out into a body that is not its own, and the work is close and draining. The strongest healers are rare, and most bearers never come near it.