Weeping Espit, the god of creation & despair, is often represented by a woman hiding her face while she weeps. When the gods departed the human realm, She was the first to flee. Her image is often found in workshops, nurseries, and mausoleums.

"My poor son will be king, at least in name," Aris said. "Itarus will devour him entire." He shuttered his heart against the pain of that. On the fireplace mantel, the icon of Espit, god of creation and despair, mocked him from Her tangled web, Her laughing mouth at war with Her veiled, teary eyes. Aris, who had removed all other traces of the gods from his quarters, had let this one remain, perhaps simply because it was the loveliest version of Weeping Espit he had seen. It had something of his wife in it, in the way tears caught on Her smile.