팔런딘: 망자의 벗, 안내자

"오 팔런딘
레타나비어—망자의 친구여
내 발길을 이끌고, 내 영혼을 진정시켜 주소서,
나를 안식으로 이끄소서."

태곳적에는 사람들이 늙지 않고 영원했다. 그들은 죽음을 맞는 대신 긴 잠, 우서네라에 빠져들어 팔런딘과 그의 형제, 덜사멘과 함께 장막 너머의 변화무쌍한 길을 거닐었다. 우서네라에 든 연장자들은 꿈의 비밀을 배웠고, 일부는 새로운 지식과 함께 사람들에게 돌아갔다.

그러나 우리의 삶은 짧아졌고, 결국에는 필멸자가 되었다. 팔런딘과 함께 장막 너머로 갔던 자들은 결코 돌아오지 않았다. 덜사멘의 지혜 또한 잃은 게 자명했으니, 그 또한 그들과 함께 장막 너머로 나아갔다가 사람들에게 돌아오지 않았기 때문이다.

그리고 펜하렐이 신들을 가두어 우리와 떼놓고 말았으니, 망자들은 더는 팔런딘의 인도를 받지 못하게 되었다. 그렇기에 우리는 여로에서 흔들리지 않게 하기 위한 떡갈나무 지팡이를, 그리고 한때 덜사멘의 종이었던 공포와 기만, 그 주인 없는 까마귀들을 쫓아내기 위한 향나무 가지를 사랑하는 이들과 함께 놓아 안식을 취하게 하는 법을 배운 것이다.

—데일스 엘프 랠러피린 부족의 수호자 기샤렐에 의해 구전됨

 

Falon'Din: Friend of the Dead, Guide

"O Falon'Din
Lethanavir—Friend to the Dead
Guide my feet, calm my soul,
Lead me to my rest."

In ancient times, the People were ageless and eternal, and instead of dying would enter uthenera-the long sleep-and walk the shifting paths beyond the Veil with Falon'Din and his brother Dirthamen. Those elders would learn the secrets of dreams, and some returned to the People with newfound knowledge.

But we quickened and became mortal. Those of the People who passed walked with Falon'Din into the Beyond and never returned. If they took counsel with Dirthamen on their passage, his wisdom was lost, for it went with them into the Beyond also, and never came to the People.

Then Fen'Harel caused the gods to be shut away from us, and those who passed no longer had Falon'Din to guide them. And so we learned to lay our loved ones to rest with an oaken staff, to keep them from faltering along the paths, and a cedar branch, to scatter the ravens named Fear and Deceit who were once servants of Dirthamen, now without a master.

—As told by Gisharel, Keeper of the Ralaferin clan of the Dalish elves