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The Traveler is cleverness, improvisation, and adaptation. It is the funny trickster, the cunning magician, and the itinerant sage.
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The Traveler is one of the [[Eternals]]. The Traveler is cleverness, improvisation, and adaptation. They are the funny trickster, the cunning magician, and the itinerant sage.
  
 
Tessera's one moon is called the Traveler and it has an erratic orbit (28-49 days).
 
Tessera's one moon is called the Traveler and it has an erratic orbit (28-49 days).
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The [[Vagabond]] is the shadow of the Traveler.
 
The [[Vagabond]] is the shadow of the Traveler.
  
Notable Faces of the Traveler include Hermes (aka Mercury), Erevan Ilesere (elven trickster god), Coyote, and Lusifee (a Wabanaki spirit).
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Notable Faces of the Traveler include Erevan Ilesere (elven trickster god), [[Lusifee]] (a Wabanaki spirit), Dugmaren Brightmantle, and Marthammor Duin (aka Muamman Duathal).
  
 
((Other touchstones: Gandalf, Ged (''A Wizard of Earthsea''), Merlin, Harry Dresden.))
 
((Other touchstones: Gandalf, Ged (''A Wizard of Earthsea''), Merlin, Harry Dresden.))
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  Lyndi puts a hand on the wheel, just to get one moment longer before you pull out, and then she leans out the open window and locates the moon.  In a sing song voice that has a rhythm built in, she sings to the moon.  The first time through the words are in Passamaquoddy, the second time in English.
 
  Lyndi puts a hand on the wheel, just to get one moment longer before you pull out, and then she leans out the open window and locates the moon.  In a sing song voice that has a rhythm built in, she sings to the moon.  The first time through the words are in Passamaquoddy, the second time in English.
 
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  Nuci-yaliyat
 
  Nuci-yaliyat
 
  Acehtahsu, acehlosu, acicuwon
 
  Acehtahsu, acehlosu, acicuwon
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  Tomonu nuci-yaliyat ‘t-oleomuhtuwal kil, ‘t-oleomuhtuwal nila
 
  Tomonu nuci-yaliyat ‘t-oleomuhtuwal kil, ‘t-oleomuhtuwal nila
 
  On koluskuhse
 
  On koluskuhse
 
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  Traveler/Wanderer
 
  Traveler/Wanderer
 
  She makes changes, she changes herself, she changes the direction things flow
 
  She makes changes, she changes herself, she changes the direction things flow
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  May the traveler/wanderer smile at you, smile at me
 
  May the traveler/wanderer smile at you, smile at me
 
  Then travel on
 
  Then travel on
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((Real-world inspirations for the Traveler include Coyote and Hermes/Mercury.))
  
 
[[Category:Divinity]]
 
[[Category:Divinity]]

Latest revision as of 18:19, 9 May 2020

Divinity
See also: Church of the Reverence


The Traveler is one of the Eternals. The Traveler is cleverness, improvisation, and adaptation. They are the funny trickster, the cunning magician, and the itinerant sage.

Tessera's one moon is called the Traveler and it has an erratic orbit (28-49 days).

The Vagabond is the shadow of the Traveler.

Notable Faces of the Traveler include Erevan Ilesere (elven trickster god), Lusifee (a Wabanaki spirit), Dugmaren Brightmantle, and Marthammor Duin (aka Muamman Duathal).

((Other touchstones: Gandalf, Ged (A Wizard of Earthsea), Merlin, Harry Dresden.))

Traveler hexagon.png

Gesture: a basic spellcasting position (e.g., for Burning Hands)

Traveler gesture.jpg

A Traveler Song

Lyndi puts a hand on the wheel, just to get one moment longer before you pull out, and then she leans out the open window and locates the moon.  In a sing song voice that has a rhythm built in, she sings to the moon.  The first time through the words are in Passamaquoddy, the second time in English.
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Nuci-yaliyat
Acehtahsu, acehlosu, acicuwon
‘T-olihponolal, ‘koluskapihtuwal
Mave-kehkimat kehkikemuwakon ‘kinstomuwyal ‘kocicihtuwan
Mec nituwin ‘kocicihtuwan
Tomonu nuci-yaliyat ‘t-oleomuhtuwal kil, ‘t-oleomuhtuwal nila
On koluskuhse
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Traveler/Wanderer
She makes changes, she changes herself, she changes the direction things flow
She puts us in embarassing situations/plays dirty tricks, confuses us with words
Teaching us lessons we ought not know
Yet need to know
May the traveler/wanderer smile at you, smile at me
Then travel on

((Real-world inspirations for the Traveler include Coyote and Hermes/Mercury.))