PERSONAE · THE VALE

Sevda Ash-Tongue

aka the Unmade Singer

A gravesinger the Bonesung unmade for singing a barrow open instead of shut, now the voice of the Cinder Quorum — the diggers who work the ash-sealed barrow the tribes will not name. She tells herself the older dead are no one's to protect, and is no longer sure she believes it.

Sevda learned the same prophecy Nali Gravesinger keeps, and the same rites — how to sing a barrow's dead down and its mouth shut. Then she sang one open, for reasons the camp never accepted, and the Ash-Father unmade her: no name in the songs, no ancestor-pole, no tribe. The Cinder Quorum took her in because a crew that breaks barrows for the Gaunt Ledger has obvious use for someone who knows which dead will rise and which will let you pass. Her argument is lawyerly and she has worn it smooth: the gravesinger's prophecy covers only the Unclosed, so the older dead beneath them are no one's to forbid. But the Quorum's last dig into the elder-dead vault came back two diggers short and one wearing the Unnamed Mask and not speaking, and Sevda has started singing under her breath the rite she was unmade for — the one that sings a barrow shut.

KIND

mortal

SPECIES

Asheni

ROLE

unmade gravesinger, voice of the Cinder Quorum

LOCATION

The Ash-Sealed Barrow

Connected

The Cinder QuorumFACTION · The unmade singer is the voice of the Quorum — the o…The Ash-Sealed BarrowPLACE · She keeps to the half-buried mouth, singing under he…Ash-Father KaveshCHARACTER · The Ash-Father unmade her — no name in the songs, no…Nali GravesingerCHARACTER · Two gravesingers taught the same prophecy and the sa…The Unnamed MaskITEM · Her crew's dig pulled the mask from the deepest nich…The First UnhushingITEM · The whole of what the Ash-Tongues knew; Sevda means …

Voices & Sounds

Game Data (1)

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data/content/npcs.json

idsevda_ash_tongue

genderfemale

canon_refcharacter.sevda-ash-tongue

nameSevda Ash-Tongue

factionashari

regionthe_ashen_wastes

health52

disposition36

greetingCareful where you tread — the ash here covers a mouth no tribe will name, and it keeps unsealing. I'm Sevda. The Bonesung unmade me for singing a barrow open instead of shut, and now I speak for the Quorum that digs this one. I tell myself the oldest dead are no one's to protect. I'd like a stranger's hands to tell me whether I still believe it.

spawn{"x":523,"z":-189}

behaviorwander

wander_radius2.5

quest_hook{"topic":"the barrow no one names","quest":"barrow_no_one_names","entry":"Sevda Ash-Tongue's Cinder Quorum digs the ash-sealed barrow the tribes won't name, where the oldest dead in the Vale lie and the mouth keeps unsealing. Go in, find the Unnamed Mask in the deepest niche, and decide whether the elder dead keep their silence. The barrow lies in the Ashari wastes."}

quest_fork{"quest":"barrow_no_one_names","branches":[{"key":"sing-it-shut","label":"✦ Sing it shut. Lay the mask back and seal the mouth.","say":"...Then I will sing it. The rite that unmade me, used right, this once. The mouth seals for good and the oldest dead keep their silence and I — I have done the first right thing since the tribes cast me out. Stand back. This will take a while, and I may weep through some of it."},{"key":"take-the-mask","label":"✦ I'm keeping the Unnamed Mask.","say":"Then the oldest dead take you for kin, and the elder places open to your hand, and I leave the barrow wide for the Quorum to dig hollow. I know the shape of giving in. I wore it for years. Carry it out, and try not to wear it as long as I did."},{"key":"leave","label":"✦ Here. Take it back. I'm walking away.","say":"You give it back, and you walk. The Quorum and the ash will settle it between them, the mouth keeps unsealing with the seasons, and you keep no relic and no debt. It is the most I can ask of a stranger. Go on. Before I ask for more."}]}

topics{"cinder-quorum":"The diggers who work the barrow the tribes will not name. They came to me because I am the only gravesinger who will speak its name aloud. They think that makes me brave. It makes me unmade. There is a difference, and I am the difference.","unnamed-mask":"It lies in the deepest niche, older than the tribes, older than names. Whoever wears it, the oldest dead take for kin — a key to the elder-dead places no living thing should open. I have wanted to take it every day I have dug here. That wanting is why I asked for you.","unmade":"The Bonesung cast me out for singing a barrow open instead of shut. I told myself the dead inside were owed the air. I am no longer sure I was right, or only hungry to hear my own voice do the forbidden thing. The Quorum pays me to keep not being sure."}

bounty_on_assault50

bounty_on_kill1000

raceasheni

Type Fields

kindmortal

speciesAsheni

roleunmade gravesinger, voice of the Cinder Quorum

locationplace.ash-sealed-barrow

affiliationsfaction.the-cinder-quorum

disposition40

secretsShe knows the rite to sing the ash-sealed barrow shut — the one the Ash-Father unmade her for refusing — and has begun to want to use it before her own crew opens something the prophecy never named.

voice_notesDry, argumentative, half-singing her sentences when she forgets to guard them. Quotes the prophecy she is exiled from as if she still keeps it.

All Relationships (15)

references

←quest.the-barrow-no-one-names (unresolved) — The unmade gravesinger gives the quest at the half-buried mouth, singing the rite she was exiled for.
←Ash-Father Kavesh — The Ash-Father unmade her — no name in the songs, no ancestor-pole, no tribe — for singing a barrow open instead of shut.
→Nali Gravesinger — Two gravesingers taught the same prophecy and the same rites; one kept the faith and one sang a barrow open — the foil.
→The Unnamed Mask — Her crew's dig pulled the mask from the deepest niche; one digger wears it and has not spoken since.
←quest.the-stair-of-names (unresolved) — The unmade gravesinger who carries the Ash-Tongue name sends you up the stair she cannot climb herself.
→The First Unhushing — The whole of what the Ash-Tongues knew; Sevda means to be the one who decides whether it lays the tower down or takes up the song.
←quest.sing-it-shut (unresolved) — Sevda is the quest-giver and central actor of Sing-It-Shut.
←quest.the-saltless-dig (unresolved) — The Saltless Dig is given by Sevda Ash-Tongue, who oversees the Quorum's dig but cannot bring herself to go in.
→The Unhushed Tower — Sevda stands at the foot of the Unhushed Tower's stair and cannot make herself climb it — the tower she means to reach is the one she cannot enter.

member_of

→The Cinder Quorum — The unmade singer is the voice of the Quorum — the one who knows which dead will rise and which will let you pass.
→The Cinder Quorum — Sevda is a lapsed member of the Cinder Quorum — they unmade her as gravesinger but kept her on because she knows the barrow's rites.

located_in

→The Ash-Sealed Barrow — She keeps to the half-buried mouth, singing under her breath the rite to shut it.
→The Ash-Sealed Barrow — Sevda camps at the barrow's dig margin, watching both the Quorum's hole and the ash for the moment to act.
→The Hollow Cut — Sevda operates out of the Hollow Cut's staging area when overseeing the Quorum's barrow digs.

owns

→The Sealing Drum — Sevda carries the sealing drum that makes the Singing-Shut rite possible.

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