Žvaigždės (Stars)¶

Deity & zenith¶

Deity: Praurimė, with Laima, whose spinning the seer reads. Incantation: Žvaigždės tau švytės („Stars for you shall shine“). Medium: a starlit sky. Zenith: Kūčios, winter-solstice midnight (~13 December in 1382, not the Christian 24th): cost halved; doubled in daylight; impossible under overcast.

Žvaigždės (Stars)


Tipas	element
Incantation	Žvaigždės tau švytės
Zenith	Kūčios
Pastaba	Žvaigždės (Stars): the element of clear sight, distant memory, and prophecy.

Boon¶

Clear Sight: seeing at distance, through time (as possibility, never certainty) and into the truth. Every Praurimė vision shows the seer something about herself (Law of Truth).

Minor / major cost¶

Minor: hours of blindness. Major: blind for days, or the permanent loss of one beloved face from memory. At the wrong hour the price doubles: Birutė’s ch. 3 vision at Dagotuvės costs „two days, maybe three“ of blindness (Book I). At the right hour: Book V ch. 29, „Praurimė shone highest, and the price was half. Half. Still everything.“

Limits¶

It shows branches, never a fixed trunk: prophecy is not fate. Overcast sky makes it impossible. A Praurimė seer can see through the Shadow-Seller’s illusions at the cost of blindness, the only such counter besides wit. Consecrated stone doubles the cost.

Uses in the books¶

Book I ch. 3 (the Ship of swords and the first Sutartis); ch. 9 (the vault of Praurimė’s night as Kęstutis’s torch fades); ch. 15 (the Five-Voice ends in „the cold brightness of Praurimė’s eyes“, and he faints); ch. 27 (Birutė sees the small flame in the stone vault). Book V ch. 29 (the Queen’s last working, for the dying Flame-Keeper, at the Kūčios zenith: afterwards she can no longer speak through the amber).

Ryšiai

Deity: Praurimė

Patrons: Laima — Laima’s spinning is what Praurimė’s sight reads.

Used by: Senovės Kalba

Žvaigždės (Stars)

Žvaigždės tau švytės · Clear Sight, the Stars working

Element: Stars · deity Praurimė (attested late / doubtful), with Laima, whose threads the seer reads
Tier: Tier 2 (minor, one element) or 3 and up. Birutė (tier 4) cast it; Vytautas has only the Five-Voice
Casting: Žvaigždės tau švytės aloud, a whisper is enough. Man for oneself
Components: A starlit sky; true intent. Zenith Kūčios, winter-solstice midnight (about 13 December in 1382, not the Christian 24th)
Cost: Minor: hours of blindness. Major: blind for days, or the permanent loss of one beloved face from memory
Duration: A candle's length to a night
Limits: Shows branches, never a fixed trunk. Impossible under overcast, doubled in daylight
Counters: Overcast; consecrated stone (cost doubles); the Order's sword

Effect

Clear Sight. Seeing at distance, through time (as possibility) and into the truth. Every vision shows the seer something about herself.

Against the Shadow-Seller. A Praurimė seer can see through his illusions, at the cost of blindness.

At greater cost

Off zenith. Doubled. Birutė's vision in Book I ch. 3 fell at Dagotuvės and cost two or three days of blindness.

At zenith. Halved. Book V ch. 29: the price was half, and still everything.

Breaking it

False asking. Ask for what you do not truly want and you get nothing, or what you do want.

Source: Magic rules §3.2-3.3, §4.1 · Cosmology §3.1 · Book I ch. 3, 9, 15, 27 · Book V ch. 29

Sąsajos¶

graph LR
  el_stars["Žvaigždės (Stars)"]
  kalba["Senovės Kalba"]
  laima["Laima"]
  praurime["Praurimė"]
  kalba -->|Uses element| el_stars
  praurime -->|Element| el_stars
  laima -->|Patron of| el_stars
  style el_stars stroke-width:3px