Entry 5: A Conduit for All Futures

Lume calls his people "Barant": a name once used by and for his kind. One, he says, they are still owed as children of Torobatl. "Cabal" is a name without weight; it is the label, Lume says, of decrepit imperial bureaucrats. A dry moniker. Lume's Barant are raucous in their new identity. They worship their distant…