Kurūgan

Kurūgan in the Gindas


Biographical Information

PronunciationP: [kʊ.‘ɾuː.gän]

Chief EpithetThe Deemer

Other NamesWriter of the Old Laws

GovernancesReason, Law, Justice, Knowledge, Warfare, Custom

LocationUnknown

HouseAdvocates


Physical Description

RaceKembar

GenderFemale

Kurūgan, or the Deemer, is the most intelligent of the Kembar. Her chief interests are in the granularity of law, the accumulation of knowledge for its own sake, the operational level of war, and policy-making.

Before the First War, she adjudicated disagreements between the Kembar, and had the power to dictate fate and doom on members of the Elder Children, though she was never unfair.

Kurūgan had little interest in spirits when the Elder Children were being created, and so made none of her own.


From “Concerning the Kembar”

Kurūgan’s eyes are gray always, so that those of the Elder Children who are gray-eyed are said to have the eyes of thought, and they are believed to comport themselves as she does. Silver is her raiment, and like a mirror in a failing light, it shimmers. Hers is a rational mind, and she reasons swiftly, delighting in the making of clever solutions. In warfare too she finds a strange joy, for she devises stratagems and policies in the same way she might tackle a challenging puzzle, from whose difficulty the appeal chiefly comes. Still, she does not glory in violence, and ever has sympathy for the recent dead.

Kurūgan is calm and steady. The Old Laws were written by her, and she knows them wholly. For this she is named the Deemer of the Kembar, who has great power in debate; but although she is grim, she is not without mercy, and compassion might yet move her to grace. However, she grudges the recanting of a sentence once passed, for she abhors being called wrong, and thinks that she should only give pardon, and not receive it.