THE CHRONICLE · THE SERED SPUR
The Spur Sealing
The day sixty years ago when Lord Vandahl's grandfather ordered the lower halls of the Sered Catacombs shut and the Lower Wardens sworn to silence — the official story is structural collapse; the actual story is that the heir in the deepest niche stood up.
The record in the house's ledger reads: 'Undercroft east wing, structural instability, lower access sealed by order, costs to be assessed.' No costs were assessed. The truth passed by word of mouth among the Wardens only: Grandfather Vandahl's eldest brother, laid in the deepest niche with his blade and his silver and his pride, had never had his ending closed — and after twenty years unclosed, on the night of the autumn count, the duty-warden heard footsteps on the other side of the door and ran. The Lower Wardens were established the next morning. The door has been mortared and re-mortared every season since, which is why it matters that Warden Sethri Vouls has stopped.
KIND
incident
WHEN
sixty years past
LOCATION
The Sered Catacombs
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (5)
occurred_at
- →The Sered Catacombs — The Spur Sealing happened in the east undercroft of the Sered Catacombs sixty years ago.
caused
- →The Lower Wardens — The Spur Sealing was the founding event of the Lower Wardens — they were established the morning after the duty-warden heard footsteps.
- →The Vandahl Ranked Burial — The Sealing exposed the fatal flaw in Vandahl's ranked-burial custom — the proudest dead are deepest and the hardest to contain.
references
- ←Warden Sethri Vouls — Sethri knows the truth of the Spur Sealing from oral warden tradition and is now watching the same pattern repeat with the answering door.
- →Gravecount, the Heir's Blade — The Spur Sealing happened because the heir who holds Gravecount stood up — the event and the item are the same crisis in two registers.
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