14 – Preparations for Death
West King Wind: The Storm King of the Pentan nomads, this god is often identified with the the god Orlanth the Final Rebel. His worship has grown amongst the Pentans in recent decades. His name is spelled “Wingkolad” in the banner, which means West King Wind in Pentan (it is transliterated into Dara Happan glyphs).
All hail the West King Wind!
Is the ‘West King Wind’ a reference to Sheng Seleris?
West King Wind is the Pent name for Orlanth (GtG page 364). Incidently, the banner says Wingkolad with the prefix for immortal/deity/celestial in the Dara Happan Sacred Alphabet (GtG page 349). Wingkolad is the Grazer name for Orlanth (Sartar Companion page 216). Grazers speak the Pure Horse Speech and this language is very close to that spoken by Pentans (GtG page 169)
Is “Wingkolad” linguistically related to Vingkot?
I would say that Wingkolad
I would say that Wingkolad has elements of Kolat (the spirit aspect of the winds, possibly what gets encountered by the Grazer shamans) and of Vingkot, the king of the Storm Folk.
The Vingkotlings definitely had contact with some of the ancestors of the Pentans, one of their tribes resulted from the marriage of one of Vingkot’s daughters to the horse-riding hero Hyalor.
The ancestral homelands of the Pentans just north of the Elf Sea were close enough to Saird for them to have had direct contact with Orlanthi before or during the flood era.
(No idea what got part this off prematurely)
Another fine panel!
If Beat Pot had embraced Orlanth fully, instead of still somehow thinking that Sedenya was “good”, he may have stayed free of the wiles of Jar-Eel. What a tragedy! Hail Orlanth!