The Ash-Return

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• ←Nali Gravesinger — She administers the Ash-Return; she holds the names of the recent dead.
• ←Belethys — She cannot speak her son's name because the tribes have not released it. She does not understand why that is the law.
• ←Ash Bowl — The ancestor-ash is placed in the bowl at the Ash-Return rite.
• →The Bonesung-of-the-Vale — The Ash-Return is the tribe's central funerary custom.
• →Nali Gravesinger — Nali administers the rite; she holds the names until released.
• →The Bonesung Camp — The rite is performed at the camp's ancestor-pole circle.
• ←Fenlight — Some say each light is a soul the mere kept that the Ash-Return never claimed.
• ←Ancestor Shade — A shade is what the Ash-Return is meant to prevent and sometimes does not.
• ←Belethys — Belethys seeks her son's name which the Ash-Return ritual has not released — the Withheld Name quest's hook.
• ←The Sealing Drum — The sealing drum is a rite-tool from the same tradition as the Ash-Return — Sevda was unmade for knowing how to use it.
• ←The Gravesinger's Bone-Flute — The bone-flute is a rite-instrument of the Ash-Return tradition — made from ancestor bone by design, not accident.
• ←The Unmade Cairns — The Unmade Cairns are defined by the ABSENCE of the Asheni burial rite — no poles, no names, the deliberate refusal that makes them what they are.
• ←The Listening to the Mountain — The Listening practice shapes the Ashwalkers' burial rites — the dead are placed to face the mountain.
• ←The Charm-Barrow — The Charm-Barrow is an Asheni burial site predating the Oak as a meeting-place — the burial rite laid the dead here first.
• ←The Marrow-Hollow — The Marrow-Hollow was built for tribal burials before the Bonesung learned silence; it follows the ash-return rite, with niches painted for the dead's journey.