The Deck

The full working deck is the complete roster from Part Five — eighteen figures across four kinships, each carrying two readings, Tending and Fraying, described fully in the next chapter. What follows is a compressed reference, not a replacement for Part Five’s fuller character chapters — read there first for the texture; use this table when you’re actually weaving and need the meaning at a glance.

Unaligned (context, not scale — read apart from the rings)

Third	Tending	Fraying
Waeth	This pattern survives by changing a little in the telling — let it drift rather than demanding perfect fidelity.	Something is being distorted past recognition in the retelling; check what’s been quietly added or lost.
Dyren	This conclusion doesn’t need outside validation — it’s been arrived at honestly, on its own merits.	Something genuinely earned is being dismissed as obvious or unoriginal; don’t let convergence read as unoriginality.
Sethra	Something here deserves to be fixed, plainly and permanently, rather than left to drift.	A fixed rule is being followed past the point of sense, with no allowance for the room it should have been read in.

The Self-Kin (inner ring)

Third	Tending	Fraying
Cindar	Start it. Momentum is available and worth spending.	Burning through something faster than it can be replaced; check what’s being consumed rather than built.
Rethen	Pull back toward the middle; enough has happened for now.	Correcting or dampening something that hadn’t finished compounding yet.
Sythen	Trust the instinct arriving ahead of the proof.	Acting on a hunch nobody else can see yet, and resenting them for not believing it.
Loum	Let this sit. What looks finished is still becoming something.	Using patience as an excuse to avoid a decision that’s actually due now.

The Dyad-Kin (middle ring)

Third	Tending	Fraying
Wevven	Close this gap now, honestly, even if the words aren’t perfect.	Repairing something that hasn’t finished being honestly examined first.
Ostrin	Test this before trusting it; an untested yes isn’t trust yet.	Turning a relationship into a permanent negotiation that never resolves into trust.
Corren	Give this your whole, undivided attention — it’s wanted, and it will be felt.	Presence given so freely it’s being taken for granted rather than received as a gift.
Vessa	Check whether you’re actually listening, or just producing the shape of listening.	Being heard technically while going fundamentally unanswered — on either side of the exchange.

The Skein-Kin (outer ring)

Third	Tending	Fraying
Quillith	This story is growing in the telling; notice what it’s becoming.	A story has drifted past what actually happened, and the drift is doing harm.
Handrel	Pass this on faithfully; what you carry is worth carrying unchanged.	Transmission is stalled — something worth passing on is being hoarded or lost.
Aestren	This pattern is larger and slower than you; let it run its actual course.	Something is being excused as “too big to matter” when it’s actually close enough to address.
Cessant	Notice who’s staying quiet, including you, and what that silence is currently permitting.	A silence has already done real, specific harm; naming it is overdue.