The Bonesung-of-the-Vale

rival_of

• ←House Vandahl — House and tribe contest the hills.
• ←Dreva Velthys — Cast out, she holds the tribes at knife's length.
• ←House Vandahl — Past Karth Bridge the road remembers the tribes, not the banners.
• ←Taras Mournwright — He is barely tolerated; he has rubbing-copies of inscriptions the tribe considers sacred.
• ←The Meltwardens — The Asheni claim the north under the prophecy; the Wardens answer to no Ash-Father.
• ←The Unsealing — The sealing Asheni hunt them as oath-breakers.
• →House Vandahl — The Ash Famine made the Asheni-Vandahl rivalry personal; the silver-diggers at the Weeping Tooth spring are the current edge of that grudge.
• ←The Meltwardens — The Asheni claim the whole north under the barrow-prophecy and resent a cult that answers to no Ash-Father; the Meltwardens answer that the prophecy is just another hand reaching for what should be left to melt.

leads

• ←Ash-Father Kavesh — Kavesh is Ash-Father of the vale tribes.
• ←Ash-Father Kavesh — Kavesh is the ash-father — the tribal leader — of the Bonesung-of-the-Vale in the wastes.

located_in

• →The Bonesung Camp — The tribes camp on the open ash.
• ←The Marrow-Hollow — The Marrow-Hollow is a tribal death-house sealed by the Bonesung and considered sacred — the tribes left it to the barrow wights deliberately.

guards

• →Vallen's Barrow — They keep the barrow sealed.
• →The Ash-Sealed Barrow — The tribes shun the barrow and will not name it, keeping it sealed by avoidance — they leave it no ancestor-poles.
• →The Frostmaw — The tribes know the rime-stalker den and leave it be, ceding it to the cold rather than emptying it.
• →The Hollow Mesa — The Bonesung keep the Hollow Mesa shut by walking past it every generation — their presence is the seal.

worships

• →The Barrow Prophecy — The prophecy is their law.
• →The Hollowing Oak — The tribes hang ancestor-charms in the Hollowing Oak and keep it holy.
• →Ancestor Shade — The tribes keep the shades with offerings rather than fight them.

enemy_of

• →Ash Hound — The tribes cull the packs.
• →Cliff Stalker — Stalkers take herd and tribesman alike.
• →Cinder Moth — The tribe smokes them out of the herd-pens weekly.
• →Karth Leech — The tribes' rule to shun the deep is a rule about the leeches.
• →Greatwood Tusker — The tribes hunt the tusker at need though its charge spares no holy thing.
• ←The Cinder Quorum — The Bonesung would kill them for breaking a barrow they shun — if the dead inside didn't usually do it first.
• ←The Ash Covenant — The Covenant burns the holdings and shrines the peaceable Asheni keep; the Asheni cull them as apostates.

references

• →The Karth Deep — The tribes know the Karth Deep and leave it well alone.
• ←Cliff-Fang Knife — An Asheni craft object; only the tribe makes them.
• ←Ash Bowl — Made by the tribe, used by the tribe, owned by the tribe.
• ←The Ash Famine — The tribes made the first hill encroachments during the famine years.
• ←The Ash-Return — The Ash-Return is the tribe's central funerary custom.
• ←quest.the-barrow-no-one-names (unresolved) — The sing-it-shut branch is the Bonesung way the tribes would bless; the rite is theirs, the silence is theirs.
• →The Asheni — The Bonesung are the wandering Asheni — the clans that never settled and keep the older ancestor-rites on the ash.
• ←quest.the-cut-verse (unresolved) — "The Cut Verse" involves ashari vale.
• →Dustmere Hollow — The Bonesung-of-the-Vale graze the Eastern Crags as well as the deep wastes; Dustmere Hollow is where their herders winter and barter, an Asheni-held hollow far from the home camps. One clan, two regions of range.
• ←Asheni Wayfinding — Asheni wayfinding is a living practice of the Bonesung-of-the-Vale — the tribe's way of owning the land through knowing it.
• ←Drowned Well Water — The tribe knows the Drowned Well water is safe — they are the ones who first charted the dive below the lurker line.
• ←The Sunbleached Marker — The Bonesung call the marker the First Pillar and give it a wide berth — they know what is behind it.
• ←quest.water-rights (unresolved) — The water-rights dispute is a tribal-interest quest — the Bonesung are the aggrieved party at the Weeping Tooth spring.
• ←The Dusk-Singing Wind — The Bonesung-of-the-Vale interpret the dusk-singing wind as the voices of the unmarked dead who have no ancestor-poles.
• →The Unmade Cairns — The Bonesung-of-the-Vale left the Unmade Cairns bare — no ancestor-poles — reading the absence as a deliberate warning not to name these dead.
• →The Weeping Stones — The Bonesung read the Weeping Stones as the Vault's outer seal and will not enter the ring — they hold them off-limits as an active riven ward.
• ←The Cold Ford Stones — The tribal track leaves the north road just upstream of the ford stones, where the Bonesung know a bankside foothold the stones do not mark — their route past the ford without using the bridge.
• →The Sered Spur — The Bonesung-of-the-Vale send their gravesinger Nali Gravesinger to the catacomb stair on the Spur — they have no camp here but they listen to its dead.

member_of

• ←Ossym the Gray — Posted by the Ash-Father before Kavesh; still posted.
• ←Nali Gravesinger — The tribe's gravesinger and keeper of the oral prophecy.
• ←Nali Gravesinger — Nali is the tribe's gravesinger — keeper of the prophecy in song.
• ←Spear-Second Yera — Yera is the tribe's war-second, commanding the eastern outpost.
• ←Maret the Water-Reader — Maret is an Asheni elder affiliated with the Bonesung-of-the-Vale herd-camp that uses the hollow.
• ←Igna Ashwalker — Igna maintains loose kinship ties with the Vale Asheni via Ash-Father Kavesh.
• ←The Charm-Barrow — The Charm-Barrow is an Asheni ancestor site — the tribes laid their dead here before the Oak was a meeting-place.
• ←Veil-of-Reeds Olu — Olu is an Asheni exile who left the wastes for the water — still carries the Asheni practice of reading landscape as sign.

ally_of

• →Ash Raider — The tribe and the birds have a working arrangement: the tribe leaves certain meat out, the birds leave the herd alone.
• →The Mourners of the Hush — Proud nomads and town grief-keepers who can't stand each other's manners but agree on the one thing that matters: the barrow is a wound that must stay shut. Wary allies in letting the great echoes fade to silence.
• ←Ossym the Gray — Ossym keeps the barrow threshold as an independent warden — affiliated by purpose with the tribe, not by blood.

owns

• →Ashen Loper — The loper herds are the tribe's primary food and pack-animal stock.
• →Emberback — The tribes hunt the emberback for meat in the dry season.
• →The Tabled Barrow — The Tabled Barrow is a named, ancestor-poled Bonesung tomb — the tribe's honored dead, sealed by gravesong.
• →The Ancestor-Poles of the Far Graze — The tribe erected every pole here and guards the graze as sacred ground.
• →Dustmere Hollow — The Bonesung-of-the-Vale herd-camp at Dustmere Hollow is the tribe's seasonal shelter in the Eastern Crags.

descendant_of

• ←The Ashwalkers — The Ashwalkers split from the Asheni Vale camp generations ago to follow the Emberthrone.