Artemy explicitly not remembering anything about his mother combined with the whole name sacrifice ritual in p3…. Ohohoho…..
Hold on. Hold on. I gotta hunt down some dialogue. OK so the Kin expected Artemy to sacrifice Aglaya in Classic to pass The Trial. And he has to kill Nara to complete it in 2. But supposedly Isidor got away with just cutting a load of swevery? EXCEPT NOW WITH THIS THOUGHT:
Bachelor: Right! You asked for the body of a killed criminal that time. What was his name...
Daughter of Suok: And you gave it to me, gave it to the Kin. Bayarlaa. Look: this is the grass that has grown out of the one who used to have a name. Look how it wreathes me!
Nara: I'll be alive afterwards, too. My blood will trickle down into the Earth, and I will become an herb. I hope it's swevery…
To start the story of Isidor, one must describe the extraordinary sacrifice that he offered to become menkhu: he did not kill a man as was expected of him, but instead took a scythe and cut a field of nine-year swevery, from which blood suddenly poured. So much blood erupted that a swamp was formed, and the Guzzle was engorged with blood for two days. Thus his sacrifice was made.
Haruspex: When did my father pass the trial?
The Foreman of the Abattoir: Later than he should have... You ask too many questions. Are you going?