THE POWERS · THE VALE
The Cinder Quorum
A small crew of grave-breakers and looters who dig the ash-sealed barrow the nomads refuse to touch, hauling out whatever the drifts unseal to fence for coin — all loot, nerve, and a bad name.
The nomads walk wide of the ash-sealed barrow and won't pull a single grave-good from it, so the Quorum took the work nobody else would. They're six or seven on a good season — diggers, a ropewoman, and Sevda Ash-Tongue, who got run out of the tribes and now puts her nerve to use cracking sealed mounds. Their reasoning is simple and ugly: the dead down there own nothing, the tribes won't claim it, and a buried strongbox of old metal and temple-bronze is worth good coin to anyone who'll dig for it. They pull what the ash unseals — fittings, old coin, salvageable relics — and move it quiet through the Gaunt Ledger, who'll pay for goods with no honest provenance. It's dangerous, thieving work: the barrow itself kills more of them than the nomads ever could, and the nomads would happily finish the rest.
KIND
crew
PARENT POWER
The Gaunt Ledger
CREED
Nobody owns what's buried, and the buried don't pay rent
RELIC STANCE
Relics and temple-bronze are merchandise — dig it up, fence it through the Ledger, spend the coin. Sentiment is for people who can afford to leave money in the ground.
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (19)
located_in
- →The Ash-Sealed Barrow — The Quorum works the ash-sealed barrow the tribes won't name, digging where the drifts unseal it.
ally_of
- →The Gaunt Ledger — They sell the older-than-Echo leavings quiet through the Ledger, who never ask which barrow.
- →The Gaunt Ledger — The Cinder Quorum fences barrow-metal through the Gaunt Ledger's network, making them dependent partners.
- ←The Unsealing — In the wastes the Unsealing sources lamp-oil through the Cinder Quorum's fence network — a transactional alliance neither side publicly admits.
enemy_of
- →The Bonesung-of-the-Vale — The Bonesung would kill them for breaking a barrow they shun — if the dead inside didn't usually do it first.
references
- →The Unclosed — Their whole trade is the dead's leavings — echoes set into crystal the prophecy never covered.
- →The Unnamed Mask — The Quorum dug the mask up and won't say which of them tried it on.
- ←quest.the-barrow-no-one-names (unresolved) — It is the Quorum's own dig that went wrong; the quest is set against the crew that breaks the barrow.
- →Corr Ash-Tongue, the First Unhushed — The Cinder Quorum's heresy traces to Corr — the disgraced singer Sevda Ash-Tongue carries the first gravesinger's name without his leave, and his method is the one the Quorum practices.
- →The Unhushed Tower — The Cinder Quorum — and Sevda Ash-Tongue, who carries the first gravesinger's name — mean to climb the tower to its seat, the logical end of the doctrine the tribes unmade her for.
member_of
- ←Sevda Ash-Tongue — The unmade singer is the voice of the Quorum — the one who knows which dead will rise and which will let you pass.
- ←Sevda Ash-Tongue — Sevda is a lapsed member of the Cinder Quorum — they unmade her as gravesinger but kept her on because she knows the barrow's rites.
owns
- →The Ash-Sealed Barrow — The Cinder Quorum claims excavation rights at the ash-sealed barrow, fencing what they dig through the Gaunt Ledger.
- →The Sunbones — The Cinder Quorum uses the Sunbones' deep chambers as a bolt-hole and storage for pre-fenced barrow goods.
- →The Cinder Throat — The Quorum operates the Cinder Throat smelter, reducing barrow-metal to unrecognizable ingots before fencing them.
- ←The Saltless Barrow-Key — The Cinder Quorum's digger pulled the Barrow-Key from the seal; the Quorum technically possesses it, though nobody knows what to do with it.
- →The Hollow Cut — The Cinder Quorum uses the Hollow Cut as its staging cache for barrow digs in the Eastern Crags.
- →The Saltless Barrow — The Cinder Quorum is actively excavating the Saltless Barrow on the Gaunt Ledger's contract.
created_by
- ←The Quorum's Well-Map — The well-map was drawn by the Cinder Quorum to chart their supply routes through the washes.
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