Wights

Travelling around the Carpet are the nomadic Wights, who seem to be spiritually connected to the Carpet, "remembering" everything in there own life, includeing the future but they must follow the "thread" of there lives. As a result of this they are almost incapable of makeing a choice and dread of the unknown. The Wights can work all elements of the Carpet: grit, sugar, bronze, varnish, wood, hairs and dust and incorporate these into there spritiual beliefes. They represent time in a series of Chay's, each represented by one of the above elements showing how the next preiod will be seen; such as the chay of Growth of represented by Dust.

The are said to be the First people of the carpet, they travelled accross the tiles to bring back fire and discovered the secrets of smelting varnish. They travel in groups of seven, twenty-one or fourty-nine (no one knows what happens to the extras) and are led by a master. They offer varnish smelting services to the locals but they are not considered part of the Dumii Empire, living apart from other tribes and not participating is the counting.

They wear dark (almost black with a crisscross pattern) robes with a deep hood. Very Rarely one Wight is born who is a Thunorg.

It is interesting to note that, in the original 1971 edition of the book, Culaina is male and known as 'Culain'.

Named Whites

• The Master
• Neral The Kilnmaster
• Alham the Kilnmaster
• Derna
• Culaina - Thunorg
• Tarillion the Minemaster