- layman metaphor for verdandi is a bridge across the river between the islands of the past and future. present is always changing, laps at both. past and future are narrow; you can't change everything about the future and verdandi knows that
- verdandi supports terra's desire to be a nine-tailed fox because a powerful impulsive trickster is an agent of the present and of change, with the power to both hand down and subvert fate
- urd's (past) priests are generally historians, skald's (future) priests are prophets (more "reading prophecies" than "divining" or "fortunetelling"), verdandi's own might be typical healers