Tools of harvest

The soul is not the body. They are linked tenuously by a thread of power, a mercy from the inevitability of time's steady corrosion on mortal flesh. But through chance or malice these threads can be tangled and unable to fly away without aid. So the simplest and most valued tool that any harvester may employ is a humble work knife.

There isn't many a kind of tool more associated with Greater Aspects then harvesting implements are to the Deaths. While the scythe of Death of the Fields is the most well known among humans because of their land bound lives Death of the Waters is associated with the trident and Death of the Winds has the sickle. All of the associated tools are considered tools that's primary purpose is gathering sustenance, an essential part of life.


The Deaths association with harvesting equipment comes from their association with inevitability. It is inevitable that something plant or animal will have to die to sustain your body and it is simply fit that the being responsible for the dead would use a tool of harvest at the end of your life just as you did at the end of your crop's life. This association doesn't imply that death gains sustenance from the dead as the second most associated tool with the Deaths is a traveler's lantern, something borderline contradictory to the idea. Instead it is a demonstration of the naturalness of dying and the necessity of endings.
Harvest equipment's ties with the dead is reflected in every day life and thought. To riot and rebel against authority with clubs, axes, and torches demonstrates your dissatisfaction. To riot and rebel with sickles, scythes, and tridents is to state the inevitability and necessity of change. Tools of harvest remain some of the most culturally significant everyday items for this reason to date. Even the smallest garden pruners has the ghost of the harvest's weight behind it.