Nesdurand -

So: the one who endures beyond. Or, more grimly, the one who should not remain.

Sometimes, in the guest book of the Crooked Stoup Inn, the same signature would appear, in the same steady hand, dated a hundred years apart. nesdurand

Nesdurand. It had the weight of a forgotten language — perhaps Old Corvantine, perhaps something older still. In the scholar’s dialect, nes meant “neither” or “beyond,” and durand echoed the word for endurance, or the slow hardening of stone under centuries of frost. So: the one who endures beyond