: Facing overwhelming and relentless raids from the Seljuk Turks, the last king, Seneqerim-Hovhannes Artsruni
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The lake is the human mind. Vasparvan is the repressed fear—the snake in the basement of our psyche. To progress (ascend to the heavens for weapons), Arjuna must first confront his own terror of the unknown. Vasparvan’s illusions are the distractions (lust, anger, greed) that freeze the senses. : Facing overwhelming and relentless raids from the
: They occupied the first rank of the four recognized noble classes: Vasparvan : The Seven Great Houses. Wuzurgan : The "Great Men" or high officials. Azadan : The lower nobility/knight class. Kadag-khwaday : The heads of households. III. The Seven Great Houses To progress (ascend to the heavens for weapons),
The canyon's path coiled like a question. Stones held shadow the way teeth hold food. As Leera walked, the wind tugged at the key on her wrist and the whistle caught the light once like a fish. Halfway down the valley she found something impossible: a pair of doors set into a vertical slab of rock, each door carved with a sky-map of shallow grooves. One door bore the city crest; the other carried the symbol of the flats — a salt line crossed by wavy fishing-hook marks. Between them the stone had been ground smooth by hands or time.
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They said Vasparvan slept between ticks of the world. It woke for prices: promises, stories, or the taking of something loved. Once, when the city had needed a bridge, a river took the baker's son for a span's worth of timber; another year a winter returned two summers in exchange for a bell that had rung for a hundred years. The bargains were never clean and never fair, but the city kept dying in small ways until someone went and bargained and came back with asphalt and lights and food.