Threadbearer

To become a Threadbearer, one must belong to a Thalrani bloodline strong enough to require reinforcement through the Blood Threads ritual. Only those recognized by the Loomtree or its kinbound interpreters may be chosen, often following signs, omens, or a crisis in the family’s legacy that demands restoration or preservation.

Candidates must willingly undergo the Blood Threads ritual, offering their own blood to seal or restore a thread-line's spiritual resonance. They must also weave a personal truth into a Sashweave, binding memory and essence into fabric, a tradition that ensures their soul becomes partially encoded in lineage memory.

The title is not bestowed by formal decree, but rather emerges through ritual and recognition. Once the Blood Thread rite is complete and the lineage thread stabilizes or reforms, the surviving participant is named Threadbearer by the presiding Kinbound Archivist or Loomshorn spiritual intermediary.

A Threadbearer serves as the living anchor of their lineage’s memory and magic. They may be called to represent ancestral will in rituals, assist in healing frayed bloodlines, or pass on encoded memories to future generations via Sashweave rites or the Loomtree itself.

Threadbearers are expected to uphold the values and traditions of their family, protect their bloodline's reputation, and guide its members spiritually. They are also obligated to respond to any signs of thread unraveling or spiritual decay within their lineage or related kin branches.

Threadbearers are granted access to hidden ancestral memory encoded in loomfruit, Sashweaves, or sacred textiles stored in Kinbound Archives. They may also receive subtle divine blessings from Velexia, allowing them to resist thread corruption or glimpse future unravelings.

Most Threadbearers wear a distinct Sashweave dyed in blood-hue and veiled silver, interwoven with hair or blood-thread from past lineage anchors. They often carry a ritual needle or loom hook that doubles as a ceremonial blade and weaving tool.

Threadbearers cannot be removed from their role in the traditional sense; only the unraveling of their lineage or their own death can end their tenure. However, should one fall to corruption—such as embracing Kavessra's will—their thread may be ritually severed by the Kinbound Archive, stripping them of the title and breaking the blood-ritual’s memory link.

The first known Threadbearers emerged shortly after the Sundering, when scattered Thalrani bloodlines struggled to maintain ancestral memory across split continents. The ritual solidified during the Severance War, when many desperate kin performed Blood Threads to reclaim lost identity, resulting in the institutional recognition of the title within the Kinbound Archive.

Threadbearers symbolize continuity in the face of unraveling. In art and story, they are depicted as pale-eyed figures with threads spilling from their fingers, sometimes shown whispering into Sashweaves or walking alone through memorygroves. For some, they are saints of survival; for others, reminders of sacrifice's cost.

Throughout history, Threadbearers have quietly influenced spiritual movements, lineage negotiations, and ritual evolutions within Myriath’s remnants. Their names are often unknown to the public, encoded instead in weaves only their kin can read.   The first Threadbearer was Serayn of the Frayed Root, who gave her blood to rebind her family’s unraveling thread during the Sundering’s final wave. The current known bearer is Maelen Dros, a Loomshorn-born Threadbearer whose ritual brought legitimacy to synthetic veins among the Kinbound. A historical figure of note is Tharek Anveil, who betrayed his role and tried to overwrite lineage memory with false threads, leading to a splinter cult now called the Echo Unraveled.