Test of Telur

A ritual test that is involved with the coming of age rites of the people of Telur. It is arranged and orchestrated by the Stonetellers. Children take it when they are between 8 to 13 years of age. It is to earn their place in the community. Before that they have the name they were given as children (their child-name0 but if they succeed the test they are given their adult name. To take the test they must have an adult act as their sponsor, this is usually a relative but not always. The sponsor chooses one simple item to aid the child in the test. Every year the test is different, though all have multiple stages that have multiple ways of being resolved. There is also aspects of symbolism and some say the test grants insight to how the children will be as adults. A child who fails the test can come back next year. For children that are 14 there is a special test, which the must take and requires no sponsor, that is unique to that child that is their last chance to earn their adult name. Those that fail to do so are always viewed to some degree as children to the rest of the community. For some this is too great to bear, such as Rhun who left the community to join the Outcasts/Bandits at 14 because he feared the test.

Some bonds of mutual experience are made between children who took the test at the same time, such as the influential emissaries from Crater Lake.