794.II, 6 Meoii: The Holy Quills

Writing the Holy Kalendic Books

    It is not my first time in Lanten, this low and overcrowded hive of a city, but this time I actually have some time to wander around and really visit it. In its undersised center lies an old chapel of the Kalendic church, nearly as old as the city itself but kept clean and good as new. I came here out of curiosity, and because it is a rare day where they display one of the rare and most prized relics of the church: the set of pens which were alledgedly used by Soven to write his Lessons, Words and Dialogues. The seventh apostle was said to have single-handedly written every word spoken by Kalendos, the first king of men.Soven wrote on parchment scrolls which, I believe, are long lost in the passage of time, but his writing devices, a set of heerus quills, have been preserved. They say that in the destruction of the capital, all priests who were in and around the cathedral sacrificed themselves covering the escape of two young novices who had been tasked to bring the quills to safety. They landed here in Lanten with all the refugees, hiding the quills in a roll of grass to hide them.

    And thus I went to see these quills. In the chapel, atop the central altar and protected by four armed guards (their uniform all shiny and colorful, the total opposite of this whole city to be fair), stands a small golden chest with a large piece of glass which lets you see inside, the three quills, grey and fragile, which still bear dried ink on their tips. Honestly, they look dry and decrepit, ready to fall to ashes... we're talking about some nineteen-centuries old feather pieces! I have little memories of our escape from Berneem, but I doubt these quills would have survived the journey under a cleric's robes!

    Some say that these quills have the godly power of carrying the voice of Kalendos, and that if someone was to use them to write something, it would make the text happen for real, because the words written would be divine, absolute truth...

Leen