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Toc the Younger

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Toc the Younger

 

Hood's Herald (TtH)

 

Toc the Younger, scout, 2nd Army, a Claw agent badly scarred at the Siege of Pale (Dramatis Personae, GotM)

 

'I was born on a ship, you know, and it was more than a few

days before Toc the Elder stepped forward to acknowledge his fatherhood – my mother was Captain Cartheron Crust’s sister, you see, and Crust had a temper . . .’ (MoI, UK Trade, p.297)

 

Hood's Herald – that one-eyed soldier – drove heels to his tattered mount, following. (TtH) 

 

"Toc bears a wolf's eye."

"Because he is the Herald of War." (DoD)

 

Attributed Works

 

The Bridgeburners

 

What see you in the horizon's bruised smear

That cannot be blotted out

By your raised hand?

 

The Bridgeburners

(DG, UK MMPB, p.21)

 

He stepped down then

among women and men,

the sigil stripped

in her foul cleansing

there on the blood-soaked sand

spilled the lives

of Emperor and First Sword –

so tragic this treachery . . .

He was of the Old Guard,

commanding the honed edge

of Empire’s fury,

and so in stepping down

but not away

he remained the remembrance

before her eyes, the curse

of conscience she would not stand.

A price was placed before him

that he glanced over in first passing

unknowing and so unprepared

in stepping down among women

and men, he found what

he’d surrendered and damned

its reawakening . . .

The Bridgeburners

Toc the Younger

 

(GotM, UK Trade, p.188)

 

They were of a kind, then

the histories writ large

in tattooed tracery

the tales a tracking

of old wounds

but something glowed hard

in their eyes – those

flame-gnawed arches,

that vanishing span,

they are their own past

each in turn destined

to fall in line

on the quiet wayside

beside the river

they refuse to name . . .

The Bridgeburners (IV.i)

Toc the Younger (b.1141)

 

(GotM, UK Trade, p.93)

 

Lay of Onos T'oolan

 

Have you seen the one

who stands apart

cursed in a ritual

sealing his kind

beyond death the host

amassed and whirling

like a plague of pollen –

he stands apart

the First among all

ever veiled in time

yet outcast and alone

a T’lan Imass wandering

like a seed unfallen

Lay of Onos T’oolan

Toc the Younger

(GotM, UK Trade, p.197)

 

 

The Collected Works of