The Barrow Prophecy

worships

• ←The Bonesung-of-the-Vale — The prophecy is their law.

foreshadows

• →The Wright's Shard — The prophecy is wholly about the shard.

references

• →The Sundering — The prophecy remembers the Sundering.
• ←Dreva Velthys — Dreva knows the prophecy better than the Ash-Father.
• ←Sister Vethi — She reads the prophecy as a promise of healing.
• ←The Hollowing Oak — The oak's ancestor-rites are of a piece with the prophecy the tribes keep.
• ←The Ash Hymnal — It is a partial transcription of the oral prophecy tradition.
• ←The Barrow Schism — The schism was entirely about how to read the prophecy.
• ←quest.the-cut-verse (unresolved) — "The Cut Verse" involves barrow prophecy.
• ←The Unsealing — They read the prophecy as license to wake the relic, not keep it sealed.
• ←Ash-Father Kavesh — Kavesh holds the tribe's duties to the barrow prophecy — and fears what it says about an outlander hand.
• ←The Barrow's Unwritten Verse — The unwritten verse is the missing piece of the full barrow prophecy.
• ←quest.hearth-friend (unresolved) — The Hearth-Friend questline's underlying tension is whether the player is the outlander the prophecy fears.
• ←The Saltless Barrow — The Saltless Barrow is not covered by the Barrow Prophecy — it predates the framework the prophecy describes, which is why its wights answer wrong names.
• ←The Barrow Verse — The verse is the missing stanza of the barrow-prophecy — the part Nali cut from what she teaches.

guards

• ←Nali Gravesinger — She is the living vessel of the prophecy; she corrects the Ash-Father when he misquotes it.