The Wind Our Steed

The Wind Our Steed is the words of House Farman, a family said to have sailed the western seas since the Dawn Age. The expression is embodied by Elissa Farman: her life at sea and her longing to cross the Sunset Sea turn the family words into a concise statement of the maritime identity she lived and hoped to extend.

Meaning and Family Tradition

The phrase belongs to House Farman, whose seafaring history reaches back, by family tradition, to the Dawn Age. Its emphasis is not merely on ships or the sea: it presents the wind as the Farmans’ chosen means of movement, a fitting emblem for a house whose members had made the western waters their realm of experience.

Elissa Farman and the Western Seas

Elissa Farman most fully personifies the words. As a child, she spent more time at sea than on land, and her father’s crews watched her climb the rigging. She sailed her own boat around Fair Isle at fourteen; by twenty, her voyages had carried her as far north as Bear Island and as far south as the Arbor.

Her ambition reached beyond even those journeys. To the horror of her parents, she spoke of sailing west past the horizon to discover what lands lay beyond the Sunset Sea. In Elissa, The Wind Our Steed becomes more than inherited family language: it joins a tradition of sailing to a personal desire to push farther into the unknown.