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The Season Held Open

Delay one named place’s final frost until a specific harvest is gathered

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A working of Starward Covenant

The Season Held Open

Difficulty
Unverified historical
Range
A named valley or kingdom
Lasts
One specified harvest
Discipline
Temporal reach

DDelay one named place’s final frost until a specific harvest is gathered

The casting. A witnessed seasonal promise renewed at the stellar return

Origin. Attributed to the First Borrowing

What it takes

Permanent pledged years; unpaid cost falls due when the promised harvest ends

Undone by

Cannot renew a promise already fulfilled; ambiguous harvest names are perilous

No surviving account agrees what harvest was named. If the promise referred to a crop whose last seed still grows, the working may be spending a finite future that appears inexhaustible.

Practitioners must record both the intended effect and its cost. The limits above are part of the working, not obstacles that a stronger will can simply ignore.

See also
Starward Covenant
magic system

Rare long-distance workings that bind a promise to a star’s return and consume the speaker’s remaining years.

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