THE POWERS · THE RAMPART FOOTHILLS

The Hanging Choir

aka The Choir, The Still Court

The elder Vyr court of Aelvyrenn — the household who directed the great engine that cracked their own god, and who now tend the Riven King, hold the city's silence, and damn the human salvage-trade below as a second wounding of a debt only they understand. Proud, grieving, guilt-paralyzed, and certain they are the world's only true mourners.

The Choir is the Still Court: what is left of the Vyr who drew down Vallen's power to build Aelvyrenn's lift and cracked him doing it — a household of un-aged singers who keep the city mid-breath and keep the Riven King, who directed the great engine himself, from failing entirely. Their doctrine is guilt turned into rite. They will not say what the engine was for. They will not expose it either — confessing what the Vyr did to the humans' god is a shame the Court has spent four centuries swallowing rather than speaking, and their silence is the only thing keeping the plan the Menders now pursue from being named for what it is. What they WILL say, loudly, is that to dig Old Work out of the Vale and sell it down the coast (the Deepening) is to sell off a dying body piece by piece for silver — a second wound laid on the first. They are not wrong about the wound, and they will never say why they truly care, because the why is the confession they fled. To the humans of Highbridge they are insufferable sky-zealots who would let the living starve to keep a graveyard quiet; to themselves they are the last ones keeping faith with a debt no human even knows is owed. Both true.

KIND

order

SEAT

Aelvyrenn

LEADER

The Riven King

REACH

Aelvyrenn and the cold air above the Rampart; unseen but rumored throughout the Vale

Connected

The Riven KingCHARACTER · The Choir is the court that tends him and keeps him …AelvyrennPLACE · The Choir is seated in the sky-city it keeps mid-bre…The DeepeningCONCEPT · They damn the human echo-trade as desecration — sell…HighbridgePLACE · To the Choir, the human capital is a nest of grave-r…The UnclosedCONCEPT · They hold the Unclosed to be a grief owed real mourn…The Far CollegeFACTION · The settled Vale Vyr and their Far College are the s…

Type Fields

kindorder

seatplace.aelvyrenn

leadercharacter.the-riven-king

reachAelvyrenn and the cold air above the Rampart; unseen but rumored throughout the Vale

goalsKeep the Riven King from failing entirely, Hold the secret of what the great engine was for, and refuse equally to expose it, End the Old Work trade they see as a second wound on a dying body

valuesgrief-as-rite, the debt must not be dug up again, silence over confession

All Relationships (14)

leads

←The Riven King — The Choir is the court that tends him and keeps him from falling wholly silent.
←The Riven King — Maelvyr still reigns over the Choir that tends him — the Riven King, held unaging by the same fracture he drove into Vallen, still feeling it travel through him after four hundred years.

located_in

→Aelvyrenn — The Choir is seated in the sky-city it keeps mid-breath.
→Aelvyrenn — The Choir keeps Aelvyrenn mid-breath above Caer Vallen, holding the city's silence and its king from going wholly quiet.

disputes

→The Deepening — They damn the human echo-trade as desecration — selling the shattered god piece by piece.

enemy_of

→Highbridge — To the Choir, the human capital is a nest of grave-robbers; to Highbridge, the Choir are sky-zealots.

worships

→The Unclosed — They hold the Unclosed to be a grief owed real mourning, not a nuisance to be closed away quietly and forgotten.
→Vallen, the Wright — The Choir keeps faith with the wound — they hold Vallen's breaking a grief owed real mourning, and so tend the very god they helped unmake rather than let his memory be traded off down the coast.

descendant_of

←The Far College — The settled Vale Vyr and their Far College are the sky-Choir's grandchildren, who came down to study the Old Reckonings and the failing world from the ground.

references

→The Vyr Schism — The Hanging Choir is the Still Court — the party that refuses the plan and refuses just as hard to expose it.
→The Deepening — The Choir damns the Deepening above all: to dig Old Work bronze out of the Vale and sell it for silver is, to them, to sell off the shattered god's own bones piece by piece.
→The Fair Copy — The Hanging Choir are the architects of the Fair Copy — the eldest Vyr who, unable to mend the god they broke, turned four centuries of grief into a plan to wash the world and set it down again clean.

member_of

←Nevaryn Vhael — [member_of] character.nevaryn-vhael → faction.the-hanging-choir

participated_in

→The Drawing-Down — The Hanging Choir is what remains of the singers who raised that working — the people who broke the god, who fled upward in guilt and have kept the silence since.

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