The Heralds

Hoyd was always very secretive and mysterious. In this book, he is just like, oa, by the way, here's a bunch of information about me. He describes himself as "the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea" The people in modern rashar are at minium five thousand years old. Hoyd is saying that when they were mortals children, he had already lived dozens of lifetimes.