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The Tide-Pickers
Living salvage-divers who race the twice-daily tide into the drowned Tidewrack shrine to strip its altar — defying both the drowned faithful who keep it and the Ashen Temple that claims them, and moving the take through Sresha Silt's smugglers.
Twice a day the Tidewrack sink empties enough to run, and the Tide-Pickers run it. They are breath-divers and rope-hands out of Gull's Watch who have the drowned shrine's rhythm memorized to the minute: in on the slack, strip the altar of its salt-blackened plate and the older offerings the orthodoxy never blessed, out before the sea comes back to drown you against the faithful who never left. The drowned keepers do not chase — they simply stand their stations until you make a mistake. The Ashen Temple calls the take sacrilege and the Pickers thieves of consecrated dead-goods; the Pickers call it salvage the church abandoned to the sea, and sell it through Sresha Silt's people, who can move anything that's wet and deniable. Every season the tide keeps one or two of them. They go back the next slack anyway.
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Between the waters, everything's salvage
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (9)
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- →The Tidewrack Sink — They run the drowned shrine on the slack tide, stripping the altar between the waters.
- ←The Picked Wrecks — The Tide-Pickers patrol the Picked Wrecks shingle — whatever the current delivers goes to Sresha's cut first.
enemy_of
- →The Ashen Temple — The Temple calls the take sacrilege and the Pickers thieves of consecrated dead-goods.
ally_of
- →Sresha of the Silt Hands — They move the wet, deniable take through the Tideboss's people, who can sell anything the sea coughs up.
- →The Silt Hands — The Tide-Pickers fence their salvage through Sresha's people — an informal but financially entangled alliance.
references
- →The Drowned Censer — The censer is the best reason the Pickers run the sink at all.
- ←quest.the-slack-tide (unresolved) — You run the sink with the Tide-Pickers; the keep-it and sell-out forks both turn them against you.
- ←quest.the-spring-slack (unresolved) — The Tide-Pickers are racing the player to the Wrack-Maw on the great spring slack.
leads
- ←Sresha of the Silt Hands — Sresha's Silt Hands control the Tide-Pickers; she is their boss and the one who commissions runs.
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