Before the first kingdoms rose from the mud of river valleys, before the first songs were scratched onto clay tablets, there was the wind. And watching the wind, learning its language, were the brothers.
This is the covenant of the wind’s children:
The ancient Persians saw them more clearly: the Chamrosh , a giant bird of prey with the body of a dog and the wings of an eagle, and its brother the Simurgh , wiser and more patient, who nested in the Tree of Knowledge. One hunted; one healed. One swept low over battlefields; the other perched for a thousand years, watching empires turn to sand.