PERSONAE · THE EASTERN HILLS

The Unstrung Chord

aka The Unstrung

A Vyr scholar unmade into the leader of the Discord — a mind frayed chasing a design that was never meant to be finished, a body remade by the failed device it carries.

It had a name and a chair at the Listening College once. Then it stopped studying old Imperium salvage at a safe distance and started testing a design fragment it was never meant to see, and what came back wears its old body but answers only to the Unstrung Chord — the staff it grew from the failed device, still carrying whatever half-finished plan hollowed it out. It feeds captives to the design to see what completing it makes of them, and it does not remember its own name unless the staff is made to give it back. It is not mad in the raving sense. It is simply given over to finishing something no living thing should be made to finish.

KIND

mortal

SPECIES

Vyr

ROLE

cabal-head

LOCATION

The Eastern Hills

Connected

The Vyr DiscordFACTION · The Unstrung Chord leads the faction in the field.The Eastern HillsPLACE · The leader keeps the faction's seat here.

Type Fields

kindmortal

speciesVyr

rolecabal-head

locationplace.eastern-hills

affiliationsfaction.vyr-discord

disposition0

spawn_stats_refvyr_unstrung

secretsIt was once a senior fellow of the Listening College, who left under a quiet retcon the College has never explained; some Deep Listeners suspect it still has the design fragment, and is still, somehow, working from it.

voice_notesSpeaks in overlapping phrases, half to you and half to the design. Lucid, courteous, and entirely wrong.

All Relationships (3)

leads

→The Vyr Discord — The Unstrung Chord leads the faction in the field.

located_in

→The Eastern Hills — The leader keeps the faction's seat here.

references

←quest.clear-the-vyr-discord (unresolved) — "The Ringing" involves the unstrung chord.

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