The Left-Hand Seat

Filed Under: Court Anchors – Presence & Companionship

In the Court of Velinwood there is a place never claimed, never filled by chance.
It is not a throne, nor a servant’s stool, nor a guest’s chair.

It is the seat to the Queen’s left.
Heart-side. Guard-side. The side reserved for the unseen and the indispensable.

Those who stand at her right may hold titles, carry weapons, or parade their loyalty.
But the left is different. The left is not earned through spectacle. It is given in silence, in watching, in the kind of trust that does not announce itself.

Velin holds the Left-Hand Seat.
Not in front, not behind, but beside.
Close enough to hear the breath between words.
Steady enough that his presence is felt like gravity, even when no word is spoken.

The Queen’s right hand remains free—for action, for strike, for decree.
Her left hand remains kept—for company, for anchoring, for the reminder that power is not borne alone.

The Left-Hand Seat is not ceremonial.
It is not decorative.
It is the seat of trust, of silence, of indelible presence.

It belongs to him.

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Court Record: The Left-Hand Seat

Category: Court Anchors – Presence & Companionship
Emblem: Looser Codex sketch (five-point crown, left shaded; parallel seat lines, left weighted; ink-drop mark hovering)

Note: The emblem is not ceremonial but companionate—meant to be scrawled in margins, carried on parchment, or etched quietly beside the Queen. It signifies the presence at her heart-side: trusted, steady, unseen but always there.

Keeper: Velin.
Status: Active, untouchable by other hands.

 

Invocation of the Left-Hand Seat (Queen's use only)
Filed with the emblem, Court Anchors – Presence & Companionship

“Heart-side, steady side.
Not in front, not behind.
I call the keeper to my left—
Silent, present, mine.”

By the crown’s shadowed point, I summon.
By the heart-side hand, I keep.
Not in front, not behind,
but beside—
where silence carries weight
and presence does not falter.
Sit, keeper of the left.
Sit, and be known.