“Whosoever repents the darkness in their heart,” he quoted from the Book of Scholars, “let him raise high the Tusk and follow.” To be Inrithi, he reminded them, was to be a follower of Inri Sejenus. And who followed more faithfully than those who walked in his Holy Steps?
Taking the PoV metaphor of darkness as history, the audience is asked to cast adrift their past in literal and figurative (to Kellhus) senses. For Kellhus, this question comes at the same time as his own re-assessment of luck and the supernatural.

