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The Lower Wardens
A handful of House Vandahl servants sworn to a duty the house will not admit exists: keeping the sealed lower halls of the Sered catacombs shut, and keeping what the house buried down there out of anyone else's hands.
Three-quarters of Castle Sered stands closed, and House Vandahl would rather you believed it was disrepair than ask why. The truth is a family secret with a small staff. The Lower Wardens are house-born servants — never family, always trusted — who carry the keys nobody names, mortar the doors that work themselves loose, and turn back anyone who comes sniffing after the lower crypts. The house buried generations of its dead down there with grave-goods, and a failing house cannot afford for the wrong people to learn what those niches are worth: caskets of old coin, temple-bronze and burial relics that would fetch a fortune from a salvage broker or a tomb-robber. So the Wardens guard it. They are paid in silence and the promise their own names will be kept off the lower niches and the work kept quiet. They are owed back-wages the house keeps deferring, and most of them have stopped believing the promise — which is exactly why the house watches them as closely as it watches the doors.
KIND
cell
PARENT POWER
House Vandahl
CREED
The doors stay shut and the family's secrets stay buried
RELIC STANCE
What's interred below is House property and a fortune the house can't afford to lose — keep it sealed, keep tomb-robbers and salvage-brokers out, and never let the wrong people learn what it's worth.
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (10)
located_in
- →The Sered Catacombs — They keep the sealed lower halls, mortaring doors that work loose and leaving the offerings.
member_of
- →House Vandahl — House-born servants, never family — sworn to a duty the house pays for in silence and won't admit exists.
- →House Vandahl — The Lower Wardens are a cell sworn to House Vandahl — house-born, never family, paid in silence.
- ←Warden Sethri Vouls — Warden Sethri Vouls is the eldest member of the Lower Wardens and has kept the catacomb keys for thirty-one years.
references
- →Verdigris Lung — A Vandahl laid down with grave-goods enough rings long after burial — and a thing that rings becomes a thing that walks.
- ←quest.the-uncounted-dead (unresolved) — The Wardens keep the heir's door shut; whether they stand down is the player's doing.
guards
- →Gravecount, the Heir's Blade — The Lower Wardens keep the heir's door shut — and the wight that still holds the sword behind it.
- →The Sered Catacombs — The Lower Wardens are sworn to keep the sealed lower halls of the Sered Catacombs shut and the ranked dead fed.
caused
- ←The Spur Sealing — The Spur Sealing was the founding event of the Lower Wardens — they were established the morning after the duty-warden heard footsteps.
authored
- ←The Warden's Ledger — Successive Lower Wardens wrote the ledger — a generation-spanning document of mortar dates and mounting dread.
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