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PERSONAE · THE VALE

Warden-binder Sethe

aka the Warden of the Vault

The Choir's iron-willed binder in Valenfeld — courteous, certain, and convinced every one of the Unclosed left wandering is a death waiting to happen.

Sethe would seal the sun if she thought it was still calling to something. She runs the Reliquary and the Choir's Vale chapter with unsettling kindness — she'll feed you, bless you, and ask you, very reasonably, to bring her every one of the Unclosed you find so she can see its ending finished properly. She means it as mercy. She is not entirely wrong.

KIND

mortal

SPECIES

Asheni

ROLE

warden-binder (Sealed Choir)

LOCATION

The Sealed Reliquary

Connected

The Sealed ChoirFACTION · Sethe leads the Vale chapter and keeps the vault.The Sealed ReliquaryPLACE · Find her at the surrender-table, ready to take your …The Sealing-WardITEM · She alone decides when the Ward is used — and on wha…The Iron CantorsFACTION · Sethe keeps the Cantors on a short, fraying leash.The Weeping VaultPLACE · The 'Warden of the Vault' has counted the runnels wi…Sela, the Ringing ChildCHARACTER · Warden-binder Sethe brings the child's case to the v…

Voices & Sounds

Game Data (1)

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data/content/npcs.json

idchoir_steward
genderfemale
raceasheni
canon_refcharacter.warden-binder-sethe
nameWarden-binder Sethe
factiontemple
health75
disposition40
greetingThe Sealed Choir keeps the Hush, outlander — we bind what should not ring, and we have kept this vale from singing itself apart for three hundred years. We've a matter now that's split the whole Choir down the middle. We could use a throat in the vote that owes neither wing a favour.
spawn{"x":-1768,"z":2524}
regionthe_mirrenmere
behaviorwander
wander_radius3
guild_contact{"guild_id":"sealed_choir","welcome":"Then welcome to the Choir, Penitent. Here is your first verse of the Binding-Song, and a small sad thing to practise it on: a dead cobbler rings in a cellar under the town, harmless, working still. Go down and sing him quiet. Then we will see what kind of Chorister you are.","business":"The cobbler's echo still rings under the town, Penitent. Go sing him quiet with the verse I gave you, then come back to me."}
quest_hook{"topic":"the failing seal","quest":"vault_failing_seal","entry":"Sethe says the Weeping Vault is failing — the seal beads warmer each year, the Silt Hands powder the lock, and the warden who sealed it from the inside is at the end of her vigil. She wants the Verdigris Vigil brought up off the inner dais and a choice made about the seal's future. East in the Eastern Crags."}
quest_fork{"quest":"choir_echo_child","branches":[{"key":"bind-her","label":"✦ Bind her — seal the echo (the Iron Cantors)","say":"You stand with the iron, then. The Binding-Song will be sung and the echo sealed, the child with it. Certainty over mercy; the Hush is kept. Carry this Sealing-Ward — you earned the weight of it."},{"key":"shelter-her","label":"✦ Shelter her — let her live ringing (the Soft Choir)","say":"Mercy, then, over certainty. The girl lives, and rings, and is hidden where the iron cannot reach her. The Cantors will not forgive it, and they will not forget that you cast the throat that saved her. Walk carefully, Penitent."}]}, {"quest":"vault_failing_seal","branches":[{"key":"return","label":"✦ Return the Vigil — re-bind the Vault, the weeper sleeps","say":"Then the Choir re-binds the door as it should be done — the cuirass on a fresh dais, the binding-tone struck clean, the weeper down another age. You did the patient thing. The Choir does not forget who does the patient thing it tells no one about."},{"key":"wear","label":"✦ Keep the Vigil — wear it out into the daylight","say":"...You mean to wear it. Then you carry a riven's grief on your back and the strongest armour in the Crags, and you leave the seal the weaker for it. I cannot stop you. I can only tell the Choir whose hands weakened the Hush, and they are a long-memoried wing."},{"key":"leave","label":"✦ Leave it on the dais — let the Vault keep its own schedule","say":"You left it. Then the Hands powder the lock through in their own time, or the brine eats the last of the binding, and the Weeping Vault opens when it opens. I asked for a choice and you gave me a delay. The Choir will remember the waiting."}]}
topics{"choir":"Two wings under one vault. The Iron Cantors would seal every echo and silence the dead for good; the Soft Choir would let what can live, live. For three centuries we have argued and bound, argued and bound. The arguing is the Choir.","hush":"The Hush is the silence we keep over the Sundering's ringing. Let it fail and the dead start speaking again — and the dead, outlander, are very persuasive and very wrong.","vault":"The Weeping Vault in the Eastern Crags. The Imperium sealed something in it that grieves, and the seal is failing — warm runnels, weeping stone, the Silt Hands certain there's treasure behind a door the priesthood would never wall over treasure. There is no treasure. There is a warden who never left."}
bounty_on_assault100
bounty_on_kill1000
Type Fields
kindmortal
speciesAsheni
rolewarden-binder (Sealed Choir)
locationplace.the-sealed-reliquary
affiliationsfaction.the-sealed-choir
disposition50
secretsOne of the Unclosed bound in her vault is the voice of someone she loved, and she has never let its ending finish.
voice_notesWarm, certain, unhurried. Frames zealotry as kindness; never raises her voice.
All Relationships (10)

member_of

located_in

  • →The Sealed Reliquary — Find her at the surrender-table, ready to take your echoes off your hands.

references

  • →The Sealing-Ward — She alone decides when the Ward is used — and on what.
  • →The Iron Cantors — Sethe keeps the Cantors on a short, fraying leash.
  • →The Weeping Vault — The 'Warden of the Vault' has counted the runnels widening for years; she gives the player the descent.
  • →Sela, the Ringing Child — Warden-binder Sethe brings the child's case to the vote, and drew up the Writ of Sealing for her.
  • ←quest.the-sealing-order (unresolved) — Warden-binder Sethe gives the Sealing-Order quest — she wants the inscription before the Vault fails.
  • →The Imperial Reach — Sethe wants the sealing-order read from the Reach before the Vault fails — it is the key to the re-sealing ritual.

authored

  • →A Writ of Sealing — Sethe drew up the writ in his Warden-binder's hand, and has not yet found the throat to pass it.

guards

  • →The Weeping Vault — Warden-binder Sethe sends wardens east to count the Vault's failing runnels — the Vault's long-distance guardian.

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