Three of Birds

Three impaled birds — fata viam invenient, the fates will find a way. Even tragedy serves destiny’s inscrutable purpose.

This is not a consoling image. Paradin did not soften his emblems. The birds are caught, pierced, displayed. Yet the motto insists that even this serves some design beyond our sight.

Three is sacred number, trinity, beginning of pattern. Here the pattern includes suffering as path, not obstacle.