Death Rattles

"Season unending. Cold chokes the life of all things. The Heart of Winter pulses."

—Collected in the Barony of Direlton, year 1248, 39 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject's information was not recorded.

"She gives birth on the Cathedral steps! (Unintelligible) A bastard child! (Unintelligible). The Tyrant Reborn! Save us! Save us from his salvation!"

—Collected in Ix, year 1409, 4 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was an infant, 3 days old.

"His name is not to be known! Even by himself! His father's name is Death, and he will be your end!"

—Collected in Ix, year 1403, 7 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a young street urchin.

"He is given a choice! To grant Death or take Grief! The parents desire Death, but the child chooses! The child chooses!"

—Collected in the Barony of Carleon, year 1328, 22 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a man of middling years with severe mental illness.

"He will rule as he has always ruled before. He will bring us peace, but his peace will be the peace of the sword."

—Collected in (Classified), year 1438, 19 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was an Aes Sedai, age not known but suspected to be well over 400.

"The gate has broken. The keeper released. The contract broken. He is not our king as we once hoped. He is their champion."

—Collected in Chantiss, year 1401, 9 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a nine year old female that sold kindling door-to-door.

"There were seven! The wanted to forget the seventh. It could not be outran or hidden from."

—Collected in Ix, year 1382, 14 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a changeling of unknown age, disguised as a nobleman from Archen.

"It's so old. Almighty, it is so old. None of it is real."

—Collected in Eldersfield, year 1411, 4 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a 76 year old Knight of the White Hart.

"I see a twilight sky, mister priest. And a dark citadel of black glass. There are strange men there with heads made of lines."

—Collected in Ix, year 1388, 11 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a 12 year old male beggar.

"We betrayed them. They gave themselves wholly to us and we killed them. We wage war with their corpses and drape their dead cousins over our skins. Honor is dead. Honor is dead."

—Collected in Capital, year 1400, 10 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a 35 year old nonbinary biological male suffering from tumors.

"The singer has committed a grave sin. He's bonded a child of the divine, though he knows it not."

—Collected in Ix, year 1438, 2 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a female seamstress too disfigured by leprosy to identify age or race.

"They speak the hallowed words and inherit the surges of their forbears. The Knights Inheritor must stand again."

—Collected in Direlton, year 1437, 12 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a 14 year old female human accused of witchcraft and subjected to trial by storm.

"They gather in huddling masses. Pillars of smoke. He hides amongst them. Watching."

—Collected in Lund, year 1420, 17 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a 75 year old wife of a Baron.

"Doctor please. Please you have to help me. Why won't you say something? Doctor, please, I'm scared."

—Collected in a village surrounding Reigfort, year 1307, 2 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject's description was not recorded

"It's right there! Can't you see it? A man of white crystal, hiding in corners of my storming eyes! What do you want of me!"

—Collected in Ix, year 1352, 37 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a Caliph of Ix.

"Seven stars. They gave us only seven. The architects could only create, not destroy. And so they created weapons to destroy for them. And they failed."

—Collected in Capital, year 1354, 29 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a 3 year old human.

"It fell from the sky, and buried itself deep below. Its yawning mouth took only hope, and gave only pain. My arms! Oh! My arms!"

—Collected on the Impeccable Timing, year 1437, 10 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a crewmember assigned to a security crew.

"Light grows so distant. The storm never stops. I am broken, and all around me have died. I weep for the end of all things. He has won. Oh, he has beaten us."

—Collected in Ix, year 1403, 12 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric. Subject was a Human dockworker for the Builder's Guild

"Father Aritole, why do you draw my blood? When will I get better?"

—Collected in an unnamed Village at the border of Boletaria, year 1409, 11 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric. Subject was a 28 year old female half-orc acolyte of the Faith Guild.

"The Spirit of Domination has abandoned them and joined us. Has he made the right choice? For the sake of all that live, may the Heart of Stone remember tears, and the Soul of Fire remember love."

—Collected in Carhein, year 1120, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Time pre-death and subject information unknown. Deathrattle may be a fabrication.

"The weapon's two commands were simple. Protect good. Destroy evil. The last of the weapons, broken, breaks worlds dispassionately. Which of the two has it forgotten?"

—Collected in Tomekea, year 1120, 44 seconds pre-death by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a Blacksmith suffering from a common pox.

"The Usurper will take the Crown of Swords and crack the world with his stolen Balefire. Pray the apprentice of the Architects lives to repair the damage. Pray that she has reason to save us."

—Collected in the Barony of Neldis, year 1002, 8 seconds pre-death by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a Priest of the Tolling Bell.

"Don't Kill Her. Don't Kill Her. Don't Kill Her. Don't Kill Her. Don't Kill Her. Don't Kill Her. Don't Kill Her. Don't Kill Her. Don't Kill Her."

—Collected in Blackcoral, year 1242, 20 seconds pre-death by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a Squire of the White Heart.

"The Prentice will disappoint everyone she ever meets. She will be their only hope."

—Collected in Greyfell, year 1104, 29 seconds pre-death by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a human woman suffering the malaise of her sorcerous condition.

"The Demiurges speak their Commands and communicate their Intents! They whisper them through madmen in desperation to be heard, trying to maintain their broken creation."

—Collected in Cairhein, year 1355, 28 seconds pre-death by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was one of the dwarven savagemen assaulting Boletaria in the War of the Beast.

"I see the Thruster of the Spear! Bearer of the Word 'Honor'! Let his heart not give into bleakness! Let the torment of his loss not break him!"

—Collected on the Impeccable Timing, year 1438, 2 seconds pre-death by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a male bitten by a spidershark.

"Death, unceasing death. How did you manage to stand it, father? To bear so much death for so long and remain sane?"

—Collected in the Two Rivers, a village near the Barony of Lgemenon, year 1048, 14 seconds pre-death by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a farmer of their late years, dead from natural causes.

"Black snakes slither across hallowed ground. A small army, though divided, help undo the Contract Eternal."

—Collected in Amador, year 922, 16 seconds pre-death by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was an assassin who'd accidentally nicked their finger on their own poisoned needle.

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—Collected in Murandy, year 1100, 48 seconds pre-death by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a 15 year old House Gaul Mercenary.

"Light, save us from Him. Again and again. The wheel turns. The pattern is woven. Again and again. Again He is born and rises. Again he saves and destroys us. Light, save us from Him. How many times has he destroyed us?"

—Collected in Ix, year 1438, 13 seconds pre-death by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a goblin stained-glass polisher.

"The Taker of Souls wounds the Gilded Princess. Her rage is the key to his awakening."

—Collected in the Barony of Malaz year 750, 20 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was High Priest of Cyvris, dying of self-inflicted injuries.

"Jivrael! I'm sorry! You were the best of us and we betrayed you!"

—Collected in Ix, year 1041, 18 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a leatherworker suffering from infected lesions.

"They broke his mind but they could not break his oaths."

—Collected in Shantiss, year 1128, 5 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a gravedigger.

"It is a made thing. A creature of lies. Yet it speaks truths and remembers!"

—Collected in the village of Winespring, year 808, 37 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a silversmith and clockmaker.

"Of all the predators... this one wins. Forgive me."

—Collected in Ix, year 1198, 42 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a half-orc highborn, heir to a dye fortune.

"I led the families that survived. Down from the shattered city. Through the broken veins that bled the sun."

—Collected in Arhcen, year 1238, 128 seconds pre-death, by a Faith Guild Cleric of the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a half-orc farmer with inquisitor in his bloodline.