“She sits at the center of existence, weaving her great tapestry.”

Long before Marath shined his lantern across existence, she sat there, at her vast Loom of Time, weaving stories yet to be told. When his light revealed her, she beckoned that he come and sit at her feet, and they spoke for an age. She revealed to him the great mysteries and showed him how to create the world.

She seems to care little for moral trivialities but instead is said to only interact with the world when she plucks the strings on her great tapestry. With great shears of black iron, she trims threads that have become frayed and makes slight adjustments to ensure that the final result is pleasing to her eyes. Sometimes her followers act in ways that are puzzling to those who cannot see a larger picture, and often they can’t even explain why they have taken certain actions in Her name, for she sent them visions of her will to be done.

“She pulls the world into existence, this great weaver, this lady and her loom. Her many hands flittered among the threads, pulling and cutting them in accordance to Her patterns.”

  • The Tale of Creation


She measures out the length of lives and trims them before they become too frayed. Scholars have long debated her morality, or if she is even beholden to such things. The great philosopher Cyarnos once said “She is neither good nor evil, but she does enjoy great tragedies.”

Appearance

Most depictions of her show an ancient woman, her gray-iron hair tied back in a bun, while she weaves and snips threads with a dozen-and-one arms. Often at her feet is the great black wolf Mithrada, his mouth bound tight with her threads. 

Her symbol is a web.

Followers

Many follow Akhanadra, or at least venerate her name. Those who wish for a long life offer her praise and small offerings of burnt thread. 

Some pray to Her when their loved ones are on their deathbed, pleading that she not snip their frayed thread so soon. Sometimes she seems to listen, and she lets their story play out just a little longer.

Common Practices

Those who follow the Great Weaver often call for her favor by creating a web of twine in the center of a circle of sticks bound together and hang it near a door or window.

Those that follow Her will often wear strands made of woven twine of mixed colors, to symbolize that they are but a small part of the great tapestry.

Playwrights have long added her as a co-author, or at least thanked her in their opening lines. 

The Khemasuri offer their trimmed hair to her, releasing it into the wind in hopes that She will weave it into the Great Story.