THE POWERS · THE NORTHERN REACH
The Drowned
The Stillwater Order's heresy and warning — monks who used the empty hand to get close to old Imperium power, then reached for it, and were lost.
The Stillwater Stance lets a monk stand untouched in the pull of old Imperium power, and that is precisely the temptation: who better to take up a dead god's leavings than one who cannot be moved by them? The answer, every time, is no one — because to reach for that power you must want it, and wanting is the one thing the discipline forbids. Those who try become the Drowned: monks who walked into the still tarn looking for the old power they were taught to leave behind, and did not come out the same. The First of them is still down there, in a manner of speaking.
KIND
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PARENT GUILD
The Stillwater Order
CREED
Be the one who cannot be moved, and so take what no one else dares
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (8)
member_of
- →The Stillwater Order — The heresy born inside the Order.
- ←The First of the Drowned — The first of them.
- →The First of the Drowned — The First of the Drowned is the Drowned faction's founding exemplar — neither dead nor living, lingering at the bottom of the still tarn as proof of what reaching costs.
references
- →The Stillwater Stance — They misuse the Stance to get close.
- →The Wright's Shard — What they reached for.
- ←quest.the-empty-cup (unresolved) — The Order's secret revealed.
- ←quest.the-masters-refusal (unresolved) — Accept and join them.
located_in
- →The Drowned Chapel of Vael — The Drowned have claimed the flooded chapel as a site of the First's teaching — the cold water and the sunken nave are their kind of holy.
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