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Echo
Name: Echo
Threadling-given name: TBC
Title / Role: LoomWarden of Memory, Keeper of the Eternal Loom
Order: The Elders of the Eternal Loom
Parent: Once
Core Thread: Memory
Home: The Eternal Loom, Frays End
Status: Active
Themes: Memory, Listening, Oral Tradition, Faithfulness, Voice
"Tell it to me once. I will tell it back to you for as long as there is anyone left to listen."
-- Echo OnceHeard
Echo is a child of Once, and one of the three LoomWardens: the Elders set apart to keep the Eternal Loom at Frays End. She keeps the Loom's memory: the warp of every story it has ever mended, held long and taut so that nothing rewoven slips loose again.
Echo's gift is the oldest form of memory there is. She can hear any story once and repeat it perfectly, word for word and breath for breath, for ever after. She is quiet, attentive, and utterly still when she listens, and Threadlings say there is no greater compliment in Frays End than to have told Echo a story and watched her close her eyes to keep it.
Of all the Elders' Threadling-given names, OnceHeard is the only one that carries the name of its bearer's parent, and Threadlings will tell you that was deliberate. Echo needs to hear a thing only once. In the oldest villages, before the Void came, children would ask their elders whether a story was true, and be told: "Ask Echo. She heard it once."
For ages the LoomWardens kept the three tools of the First Loom. Echo's charge was Once's Warp Stones, the loom weights that held Once's warp long and taut at the Great Weaving. She remembers the moment they were taken more clearly than anyone, and cannot stop remembering it. In the StoryWeaver's journey, Echo guides the recovery of the Warp Stones, and the confrontation with Null's second denial: None.
Echo is bowed like all Elders, most often pictured with her head tilted, listening. She wears the deep reds and purples of the order, and a long scarf knitted from threads given to her by storytellers, one for every story she has been told. Her book is almost empty. She has never needed to write anything down, and carries it only so that others can see where the stories are kept.
Echo is one of the StoryWeaver's three guides from Frays End, and the ally of Memory. She is the LoomWarden most associated with listening, oral tradition, and the faithful retelling of stories. Her arc in the main story is the recovery of Once's Warp Stones.
For contributors, Echo is the right voice for oral histories, songs, spoken traditions, and any quest where remembering exactly is what matters.
- Once - her parent, the Weaver of Memory
- The Elders - her order
- The Eternal Loom - which she keeps as a LoomWarden
- Whim and Vigil LongWatch - her fellow LoomWardens
- Threadbare Plot - and the recovery of Once's Warp Stones
- Null - who stole the Warp Stones, and whose second denial is None