Saelen Gara talespinner

The Saelen Gara talespinner was a storyteller of the Saelen Gara, the people who had once inhabited the lost forestlands of ancient Kharkanas. The talespinner told two different stories about the moon. In one, the moon was simply an innocent gift from Father Light to Mother Dark to remind her of his great love for her--a bright light in the dark sky. In another, the moon was the backside of Father Light's baleful eye, and if it were possible to travel the vast distance to the moon it would be found that it was a lens. Looking through the lens would show other worlds for which the moon was not the moon but, rather, the sun. As the storyteller had then put it, "Perspective...[t]he world changes according to where [one stands]"--the moral being that a particular situation to be dealt with can look very different depending on the direction that one looked at it from, and so it was important to choose carefully where one's stand would be.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US TPB p.781
==In Toll the Hounds==
In Black Coral, Endest Silann remembered what the Saelen Gara talespinner had to say about how things can look very different, depending on how one looked at them, as Endest, himself, was wrestling with the problem of where he should make his stand in the rapidly approaching crisis with the Dying God.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US TPB p.781-782
==Notes and references==
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