Alabar Tremaline

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The Odessan name for the most important prophet in the pre-Alexandrian tradition, a mad Sidhe warrior-seer whose true name has been lost to, or excised from, history.

Tremaline was the only witness to the destruction of the Eight. The experience destroyed both his vision and his mind, endlessly gibbering nonsense couplets. Eventually locked in a tower by the Coriander King (one of the ancient forerunners of the Odessan monarchy and aristocracy), he began writing a couplet a day on his bedsheets and hanging them out of the tower window. Invariably, they would be projections of ill fortune and the public began to grow restless and demand his release. Instead, the Coriander King locked him in the dungeons. Tremaline immediately took a turn for the worse and fell into terminal, suicidal decline.

After a long period of neglect, he was found dead in his cell. The tips of all of his fingers had been chewed off, and the walls and floor were covered with hundreds of his trademark couplets written in his own blood. Since many of them referenced the destruction of the newly arisen Demi-Pantheon, they were dutifully recorded. As word of its existence began to spread, however, Tremaline forgeries became a cottage industry. Several periods of renewed interest in the prophecies, especially during Alexandria's time, further muddied the historical record.

Due to the rampant historical forgeries, as well as various rounds of suppression through the centuries, no canonical "Tremaline Prophecies" truly exist. Most translations also include heavy annotations on the provenence of the quotes as well as meditations on why certain couplets should or should not be considered authentic.

In the Alexandrian Fortune Card deck, he is most often represented as a stark white Sidhe with bloody fingertips, dressed in rags or bedsheets and wearing a blindfold.