Gidanvur

Body

Lean to the point of gauntness, with the alpine ibex expression of the horn: straight back, long, shallow, ridged, and never shortened. The uncut horn is the whole of their office. Coupled to the skull and never cut, it carries the low working of the rock into the head, and a Gidanvur sitting still on a face for a day is doing something the rest of the people cannot do and knows it cannot.

The cost is the cost every uncut Gidan pays: no Gidanvur passes for a satyr, and no Gidanvur ever did the work the species was made for.

Country

Cut ledges high on the faces above the holds, reached by no path, and they come down twice a year. It is a Gidanvur who names a new pass and a Gidanvur who says whether a cairn is finished, and the rest of the people consult them before a hold is extended and do what they say.

Faith

They hold that the mountain's patience can be learned by imitation, which is why they sit. The rest of the people treat them as an eccentricity that is useful to have. They keep the only thing in the culture resembling a doctrine, and it is unwritten, and each of them holds a different version of it.