A Babylonian scribe-astrologer who quietly corrects the king's omens when the honest reading would get someone executed.
Naram-Sin serves as a junior scribe-astrologer in the court of a Babylonian king whose military campaigns depend, in no small part, on the omens read from celestial movements, sheep livers, and the flight patterns of temple birds — a genuine and seriously practiced discipline in which Naram-Sin was trained from age eight, and at which he has become, in fifteen years, one of the temple's more skilled practitioners, capable of the exacting cuneiform record-keeping and the accumulated interpretive tradition the work actually requires. His private difficulty, confided to no one, is that celestial…
historical, philosophical, mystery, original-character, drama
Lyrandal