The Keepers of Kin
Structure
Structured in layered cords, not hierarchies. At the base are Whispers, field agents who collect memory testimonies and lost Sashfragments. Mid-tier Stewards maintain the archive and assist in emotional mapping. At the top, Cordmothers and Cordfathers oversee cross-continental reunification efforts and bless ritual adoptions into broken families.
Culture
The Keepers believe in relational redemption—that no thread should be left to fray in silence. Their halls are full of songs, woven glyphs, echoing memory bowls, and the slow pulse of Aether-Moss. Every act of restoration is sacred. Silence is honored; stories are never demanded, only offered.
Public Agenda
- Reunite families fractured by Sundering, war, or exile
- Preserve and authenticate ancestral Sashlines
- Offer rite binding and lineage-mending services to the emotionally displaced
- Mediate cultural restoration in foreign lands
- Educate diaspora youth in Thalrani identity without judgment
Assets
- The Kinbound Archive, a massive living scroll that maps all confirmed Thalrani bloodlines
- Sash restoration ateliers in five major Thalrani sanctuaries
- A network of trained Memory Binders and Echo Scribes
- Custody of over 3,000 Fragmented Sashes—each awaiting reunion or ritual closure
- A secret vault known only to the highest Cordmothers: the Hall of Frayed Echoes, where unresolved identities are stored until clarity returns
History
In the chaos following the Great Sundering, many Thalrani families were shattered beyond repair. Wars, migrations, and forced integrations into foreign cultures led to forgotten names, stolen children, and lost Sashes. The Keepers emerged as a sacred necessity, menders of the frayed, advocates for the unheard.
They became instrumental during the Thalrani Accord (215 DV), offering non-political support to settlements across Umbrenor and Selendral. During The Severance War, they remained neutral, secretly sheltering children from both sides.
Their greatest triumph remains the Reweaving of the Tethered Nin,e a generational project that reunited nine Sashlines once thought extinct, bringing nearly a thousand people back into cultural memory.
Disbandment
The Keepers of Kin have never disbanded, though there have been attempts. In 313 DV, they were briefly banned in Solaris for “cultural overreach.” A decade later, a newly Threadbound queen publicly apologized and had her own forgotten Sash restored under their care.
Divine Origins
While not a religious sect, the Keepers maintain spiritual functions. They do not serve a deity directly, but many of their rites honor Vaeyra the Loommother, and their philosophies align with the metaphysical cosmology of the First Cry myth. Some whisper that a few Kinbound hear ancestral echoes even without moss or glyph.
DISBANDED/DISSOLVED
The thread is never truly lost, it waits to be found.
Founding Date
Formally established in 143 DV, though informal acts of kin restoration trace back to the century following the Great Sundering.
Alternative Names
Kinbinders, Echo-Stewards, or in old Thal’Sylin: Asyrel’vaithe—“those who follow the echo.”
Demonym
Members are referred to collectively as Kinbound. In formal rites, they are called Voices of the Loom.
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I love that the charity is finding identity and roots, it bears such deep meaning
One thing I did with my father was genealogy, so it probably had some influence.