Primordial Silence

~???–0 · Uta

What omen is this?

Season 1 “Primordial Silence”

The sudden death of the previous Listener leaves the succession rite hanging, and Uta faces Gald's distrust and a crisis in the clan at the same time. A find in forbidden ground carries her through the crisis, but the succession is deferred, and the riddle of the bone comb is handed on.

  1. OpeningThat she heard no voice in the confiscated singing stone, and a decisive break with Gald.
  2. DevelopmentThe bone comb still silent, and the fevered youth getting worse.
  3. TurnWhat the old bone fragment found in the Singing Vale means, and what it sets in motion.
  4. CrisisOn the eve of the Star Festival: a threat of exile, and a demand that she prove the voice by saving the fevered youth.
  5. ResolutionWhere the old bone fragment Uta now holds came from, and the riddle of Nono's bone comb, which still says nothing.