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The Vigil Oath
aka the Lamp-Sworn's oath, the plain oath
The short oath every Vigil-Knight swears on taking up a lamp — older than the Sealed Choir's whole institution, and unchanged, as far as anyone can tell, since before anyone thought to write it down.
I did not make the Light and I will not pretend to own it. I will keep it lit while it is mine to keep. I will feed the traveler before I ask their god. I will stand the bad road so someone else does not have to. When my hands give out, I will have taught another pair to hold the lamp, and if I have not, that failure is mine and not the Light's. This I swear on the only witness that has never once failed to answer a true oath — whatever it is, and however long it has left to burn.
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AUTHOR
Dame Ysolt Farewatch
FOUND AT
The Last Lamp
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authored
- →Dame Ysolt Farewatch — Ysolt teaches the oath to every Lamp-Sworn novice, though the words are older than her own tenure as Farewatch.
references
- →The Light — The oath names the Light directly as 'the only witness that has never once failed to answer a true oath.'
explains
- →The Vigil — The oath is the whole of the Vigil's doctrine — no catechism, no tithe-roll, just this.
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