THE LORE · THE TIDEWRACK NARROWS
The Drowned Rite
The pre-Imperial sea-burial custom of the Narrows folk — the dead interred above the tide in salt so the ocean could find them later, and the shrines sunk into the water on purpose so the gods could hear them better.
Before the Ashen Temple arrived with its sealing orthodoxy, the peoples of the narrows believed the sea was already consecrated — that you put the dead above the tide-mark in salt so they would keep, and put the shrines below it in brine so the prayers would carry. The Kneeling Drowned preserved the shrine half of this; the Saltsung Barrow preserved the burial half. The Temple considers both practices an affront to the Hush. The Hessk, who predate the Temple by some margin, still leave salt at the Tide-Stones and regard the Temple's opinion as the sort of thing you smile at politely.
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- ←The Lady of the Long Water — The Drowned Rite is the Lady's: the dead laid in salt so she can find them, the shrines sunk on purpose so she can hear them better.
- ←The Saltsung Barrow — The Saltsung Barrow is the physical embodiment of the Drowned Rite's above-tide salt-burial half.
- ←The Tide-Stones — The Tide-Stones bear the drowned-rite prayer inscription in pre-Imperial script; Hessk pilgrims still leave salt there.
- →The Kneeling Drowned — The Kneeling Drowned are the living practitioners and last defenders of the Drowned Rite.
- ←The Saltkept Dead — The saltkept dead are the physical product of the Drowned Rite's above-tide salt-burial; they are living (dead) practice.
- ←The Saltsung Compass — The Saltsung Compass is the navigational relic of the drowned-rite captains' burial tradition; it embodies their belief in the sea's orientation.
- ←quest.the-saltsung-commission (unresolved) — The Saltsung Commission's third branch — returning the compass to the rite — is an act of restoring the Drowned Rite's custodianship.
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- →The Ashen Temple — The Ashen Temple regards the Drowned Rite's practices as heresy and is actively sealing its surviving monuments.
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