What do you know about shamans? Not about demonic shamans in carved masks, conjuring the Abyss and sending curses, but about others, ancient, real? You can live your entire life in Erycuria and not meet a single spirit seer. They live secretly, on the very outskirts of the civilized world, where progress and the war that follows on its heels have not yet reached.

There, on the very edge of civilization, in remote villages in the north, you can still meet one of the real shamans. They are laconic, their faces are always hidden under outlandish headdresses made of leather and fur, and, looking at their bent and emaciated bodies, you might think that they bear the entire weight of this world. In part, this is true.

You cannot become a shaman, their art cannot be learned, their gift cannot even be comprehended. Shamans who speak with spirits are born. Nature itself teaches them to see, hear and cry. He reveals his secrets to them and sends guides to other worlds. But the shaman himself cannot do anything of his own free will. He is only a servant of his people and other, incomprehensible forces. That’s why the load on their shoulders is so heavy, and that’s why they hardly talk to others. It is difficult to be the only sighted person among the blind.

That is why shamans wear their wonderful hats that hide their faces, with eyes sewn on top of the skin and fur, looking forward. Others should not know what truths the shaman sees when performing rituals over the bed of a sick person, over a dead bear, in a clearing under the full moon. These truths are visible only to himself. However, the shaman does not need his own eyes; he sees with his heart. But others would be afraid to ask a blind old man for help.

The shaman’s hat with sewn eyes is a symbol of his limitless power and endless weakness, a symbol of his knowledge and faithful service to others. When trying on this hat, remember what it means. You won’t become shamans, even if you spend a whole year in it, but you will still lightly touch their path, fate and bitter sadness.

However, you can consider it just an interesting souvenir.