THE POWERS · THE MIRRENMERE
The Kneeling Drowned
aka the Tideless
Drowned penitents who tend the flooded shrine but have begun keeping company with its Unclosed dead instead of shutting them away — a soft heresy the Ashen Temple rows out to correct.
They were the Temple's own, once: lay-keepers left to mind the shrine when the valley drowned it. Years alone in the deep water changed them. They no longer raise the Hush over the shrine's dead; they kneel in the tide and say the drowned belong to the Lady of the Long Water's keeping, not to the Temple's silence — that she gathers what the failing world loses and returns nothing until asked correctly, and that the shrine's dead were never meant to be shut away, only kept company until she's ready. The Ashen Temple calls this rot and rows pilgrims out to seal what the Kneeling Drowned have left open. Neither will be the first to spill blood on holy ground, so the quarrel is fought in whispers, candles, and which doors are found barred.
KIND
congregation
HEADQUARTERS
The Drowned Shrine
ALIGNED WITH
The Mourners of the Hush
JOINABLE
no
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (23)
member_of
- ←Sumeh the Tideless — The eldest of the Kneeling Drowned, and now their only face.
- ←The Saltsung Barrow — The Kneeling Drowned regard the Saltsung Barrow as sacred ground of the old rite and the saltkept dead as the rite's faithful.
- ←The Tide-Stones — The Kneeling Drowned regard the Tide-Stones as a pilgrimage site of the old rite; Hessk adherents keep it.
- ←Sumeh the Tideless — Sumeh is the Kneeling Drowned's last keeper in the Narrows, the one who still rows out to warn and tends the shrine's approach.
- ←The Last Keeper's Roost — The Last Keeper's Roost is the Kneeling Drowned's only physical base in the Narrows — Sumeh's vigil-point.
leads
- →Sumeh the Tideless — The last keeper holds what is left of the congregation together.
- ←Sumeh the Tideless — Sumeh is the eldest of the Kneeling Drowned — she leads the soft heresy by presence and practice, not by title.
located_in
- →The Drowned Shrine — The flooded shrine is their whole world; they tend the standing god and let its dead ring.
- →The Drowned Shrine — Keep the flooded shrine, unsealed, and kneel in its tide.
- ←The Slack-Tide Stones — The Kneeling Drowned wade out to the Slack-Tide Stones at the lowest ebb to read the harmonics the water leaves in the stone.
rival_of
- →The Ashen Temple — Soft heresy vs. soft orthodoxy — the Temple calls their listening rot and rows out to seal what they keep open; neither will spill the first blood on holy ground.
- →The Ashen Temple — The Temple rows out to seal what the Drowned leave ringing.
ally_of
- →The Mourners of the Hush — Aligned with the Mourners — both would let the dead ring rather than bind them silent.
- →The Mourners of the Hush — They share the Mourners' creed that the dead should be let fade, not silenced by force.
references
- →The Drowned Prayer — The unfinished prayer is the holy thing the kneeling keep company; carrying it off is the heresy they fear most.
- →Silt Pike — The Kneeling Drowned share the flooded shrine with its silt-pike, and feed them.
- →The Unclosed — They listen to the shrine's echoes instead of binding them.
- ←quest.the-missing-bell (unresolved) — The Kneeling Drowned want to know if the bell still rings underwater — it would be a tool against the Temple's silencing ambitions.
- ←The Drowned Rite — The Kneeling Drowned are the living practitioners and last defenders of the Drowned Rite.
- ←The Saltkept Dead — The Kneeling Drowned regard the saltkept dead as the honored interred of the old rite — not enemies to be fought, but presences to be respected.
worships
- →Issuthra, the Drowned Crown — The penitents take her slow low hymn beneath the tide for the voice of the drowned god, and kneel to it — the heresy made flesh.
- →The Lady of the Long Water — The Kneeling Drowned tend the flooded shrine and bow the green to the Lady — the faithful who still listen for her in the deep.
owns
- →Stocktarn Drown — The Kneeling Drowned have marked the drowned altar in Stocktarn Drown with their signs, claiming the site as sacred.
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