The Ferret and The Mole

A favorite bedtime story which has many cultural variations in Bastion is the story of the Ferret and the Mole. It’s a story of two human brothers who became bitter enemies in the Second Age, during the Elysium Wars. It’s said that their bravery, skill, and subterfuge almost single handedly determined the outcome of the war. The Mole was a brilliant, secretive, deep cover agent who was placed within the Elysium Council. If not for the faultless ability of the Ferret - a lower level functionary with the gift to distinguish between truth and falsehood - to detect the Mole, all would have been lost.

The Ferret became a symbol of the ability to find and root out evil while the Mole became the symbol of those who work in deep darkness with claws that reach through deep, dark places in the realms and souls of the civilized.

Thousands of years later, a cult sprung up around the two based on resurfaced writings. A legend exists that the two became immortal guiding spirits which continuously counter one another - the Ferret giving wisdom to see happenings that are constantly trying to remain hidden, the Mole granting dark secrets unearthed from deep, dark places from the realms and the hearts of people.