PERSONAE · THE VALE

Nali Gravesinger

aka Singer of the Ash

The Bonesung-of-the-Vale's gravesinger, who maintains the barrow prophecy in oral form and has not slept a full night in years.

Nali carries the prophecy the way a wound carries a splinter. She sings it at dusk, corrects the Ash-Father when he misquotes it, and fears that the version she holds is already incomplete. She was Dreva Velthys's apprentice, once.

KIND

mortal

SPECIES

Asheni

ROLE

gravesinger and keeper of prophecy

LOCATION

The Bonesung Camp

Connected

The Bonesung-of-the-ValeFACTION · The tribe's gravesinger and keeper of the oral proph…The Bonesung CampPLACE · She sings at dusk from the ancestor-pole circle.The Barrow ProphecyCONCEPT · She is the living vessel of the prophecy; she correc…Dreva VelthysCHARACTER · Dreva was her teacher; Nali cut the verse that named…The Ash-ReturnCONCEPT · She administers the Ash-Return; she holds the names …The Ash-ReturnCONCEPT · Nali administers the rite; she holds the names until…

Voices & Sounds

Game Data (1)

Read live off disk from data/content/*.json — the game data itself, not a copy.

data/content/npcs.json

idnali_gravesinger

genderfemale

canon_refcharacter.nali-gravesinger

nameNali Gravesinger

factionashari

regionthe_sered_spur

health50

disposition40

greetingYou hear it too? No — you wouldn't, not yet. I'm Nali, gravesinger of the Vale's Bonesung, and I haven't slept a whole night in years for the ringing out of the Sered catacombs. House Vandahl's heir lies unquiet down there with a blade that counts the dead and won't stop tallying. I cannot lay him while it rings. Maybe you can stand where I can't.

spawn{"x":-300,"z":-680}

behaviorwander

wander_radius2.5

quest_hook{"topic":"the uncounted dead","quest":"vandahl_uncounted_dead","entry":"Nali Gravesinger can't lay House Vandahl's heir while Gravecount rings in the Sered Catacombs. She wants the ringing stopped — sing the rest over the heir, or take the blade. The catacombs lie in the Sered Spur."}

quest_fork{"quest":"vandahl_uncounted_dead","branches":[{"key":"lay-the-count","label":"✦ I sang the rest. Gravecount stays with the heir.","say":"Then the ringing stops, and the lower door opens, and the Wardens stand their watch down at last. And I will sleep tonight — the whole night through, the first in years. You are a friend to House Vandahl's dead, stranger. We do not say that lightly."},{"key":"take-the-blade","label":"✦ I took Gravecount.","say":"...Then you carry the heir's ringing now, lodged where mine has been. It will grow. Every death it deals, it counts, and the count grows louder in you. I cannot stop you. I can only be sorry — for you, and for the next ear it finds."},{"key":"leave","label":"✦ I barred the door. The count runs on.","say":"Some doors are kinder barred than opened — I know that better than anyone. The house keeps its silence and its uncounted dead, and the blade rings on for whoever comes next. I don't blame you. I only have to keep hearing it."}]}

topics{"gravesong":"The rite of laying the dead to rest — counting them, naming them, singing them down into the silence. I keep the barrow-prophecy in my throat where no fire can burn it. It is exhausting work and no one but the dead ever thanks you.","gravecount":"The heir's blade. It keeps score — every death it ever dealt, tallied, and it rings the tally without rest. Strikes harder the longer it kills. A relic, and a sickness. I would have it stilled, not wielded.","vandahl":"The dying house of the Sered Spur. Their heir lies in the catacombs unquiet, and the house keeps the door barred and pretends the ringing is the wind. It is not the wind. I have listened to the wind my whole life."}

bounty_on_assault50

bounty_on_kill1000

racestoneborn

Type Fields

kindmortal

speciesAsheni

rolegravesinger and keeper of prophecy

locationplace.ashen-wastes-camp

affiliationsfaction.ashari-vale

disposition35

secretsShe knows a verse of the prophecy that names Dreva — and she cut it from what she teaches the camp.

voice_notesLyrical, precise, with the habit of singing a line when she is too angry to speak it plainly.

All Relationships (22)

member_of

→The Bonesung-of-the-Vale — The tribe's gravesinger and keeper of the oral prophecy.
→The Greenwake — The gravesinger walks the Mourner/Greenwake border.
→The Bonesung-of-the-Vale — Nali is the tribe's gravesinger — keeper of the prophecy in song.

located_in

→The Bonesung Camp — She sings at dusk from the ancestor-pole circle.
→The Bonesung Camp — Nali lives at the main camp, walking the singing-stones when she needs to tune her song.
→The Whistling Narrows — Nali walks to the singing-stones to tune the prophecy's melody — the wind-chord is her reference pitch.
→The Sered Spur — Nali Gravesinger comes up to the Spur from the Ashen camp to stand at the catacomb stair — she can hear the Vandahl heir still counting from outside the stone.

guards

→The Barrow Prophecy — She is the living vessel of the prophecy; she corrects the Ash-Father when he misquotes it.

rival_of

→Dreva Velthys — Dreva was her teacher; Nali cut the verse that named her from the teaching canon.

references

→The Ash-Return — She administers the Ash-Return; she holds the names of the recent dead.
←The Ash-Return — Nali administers the rite; she holds the names until released.
→Ancestor Shade — The gravesinger holds the names that keep the shades calm.
←quest.the-uncounted-dead (unresolved) — The gravesinger hears a count that won't end and sends the song down where she cannot go.
←Sevda Ash-Tongue — Two gravesingers taught the same prophecy and the same rites; one kept the faith and one sang a barrow open — the foil.
←quest.the-cut-verse (unresolved) — "The Cut Verse" involves nali gravesinger.
←The Gravesinger's Bone-Flute — The bone-flute was made by Nali's predecessor; its return is the errand Nali gives a trusted Hearth-Friend.
←Asheni Wayfinding — Nali is also the tribe's navigator — gravesingers hold wayfinding knowledge alongside the prophecy.
←quest.the-withheld-name (unresolved) — Nali is the giver and revelation of The Withheld Name.
→The Barrow Verse — Nali fears the prophecy she holds is incomplete; the verse in the barrow is the one she cut — the quest sends the player to find it.
←quest.the-cut-verse (unresolved) — Nali Gravesinger gives the quest — reluctantly — and receives or doesn't receive the full verse.

authored

←The Ash Hymnal — Nali wrote it without the Ash-Father's knowledge.

owns

→The Barrow's Unwritten Verse — Nali holds the cut verse on a bark strip she has never shown anyone.

This world ships in Valenfeld. Play the game →