Sorrowscale

The record

One keeper in twelve wrote its name with a shaking hand.

Sorrowscale guards graves no one else visits.

One keeper in twelve wrote its name with a shaking hand. The others did not write it at all.

It grieves what it guards — and guards it anyway. It chose you for the same habit.

Its measure

How it chooses

Sorrowscale reads loyalty and stillness in a minor key. It chooses the ones who stayed near the wounded thing until it stood, and who said nothing about it afterward.

It has never once chosen a rider who took the ember. It grieves too well to trust a thing that burns.

Every trial answer feeds five measures — courage, cunning, loyalty, wildness, stillness — and the dragon whose temperament sits closest to yours makes the claim. How the trial works →

The bond's weakness

It carries what it should set down. So, its records suggest, do you.