THE POWERS · THE EASTERN HILLS
The Unsealing
aka the Wakeful
A heretic splinter of barrow-keepers who believe the Wright's Shard was never meant to be kept asleep — and work, in the dark of the Vallen's Barrow, to wake what the prophecy says to leave sealed.
Every Asheni is raised on the barrow-prophecy: the relic stays sealed until the wind names the hand. The Unsealing read the same prophecy and decided the wind has been naming hands for ages and the Ash-Fathers keep refusing to listen. They have not the strength to take the barrow, so they haunt its outer galleries — re-cutting wards the wrong way, teaching the wights old names, leaving the deep doors a little less shut than they found them. The Asheni who keep the Vallen's Barrow hunt them as oath-breakers. The Wrights' Heirs, who would very much like the relic awake and in reach, make sure the Unsealing never quite run out of lamp-oil.
KIND
cult
HEADQUARTERS
Vallen's Barrow
ALIGNED WITH
The Wrights' Heirs
JOINABLE
no
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (16)
references
- ←quest.the-stair-of-names (unresolved) — The pilgrims who copy the tower's wards backward; the take-up-the-song branch makes you their new pilgrimage.
- →Grave Lurker — The Unsealing teach the barrow's grave-lurkers old names, the wrong way round.
- →The Unhushed Tower — The Unsealing climb the tower on pilgrimage and copy its wards backward — Corr did first what they attempt at Vallen's Barrow.
- →The Barrow Prophecy — They read the prophecy as license to wake the relic, not keep it sealed.
- ←quest.what-the-mesa-keeps (unresolved) — The Unsealing is the second faction vying for vault access.
- ←quest.cupped-hands-penance (unresolved) — The Unsealing want the bone-saint woken; they have an interest in the outcome.
- ←quest.the-salt-that-hums (unresolved) — The Unsealing is the other competing faction for the vault's echo-apse.
rival_of
- →Hollow Warden — The Hollow Wardens guard the very seal the Unsealing work to break.
- →The Bonesung-of-the-Vale — The sealing Asheni hunt them as oath-breakers.
- →The Hollow Mesa — The Unsealing believes the Hollow Mesa holds pre-Sundering Asheni names that predate the Echo — their deepest prize in the wastes.
located_in
- →Vallen's Barrow — Haunt the barrow's outer galleries, leaving the deep doors less shut.
ally_of
- →The Wrights' Heirs — The Resonants keep them in lamp-oil; both want the relic awake.
- →The Cinder Quorum — In the wastes the Unsealing sources lamp-oil through the Cinder Quorum's fence network — a transactional alliance neither side publicly admits.
member_of
- →The Unhushed Tower — The Unsealing makes pilgrimage to the Unhushed Tower and copies its wards backward — it is the cult's sacred site.
- ←The Scorch Seekers — The Scorch Seekers are an Unsealing cell focused on opening the Cindervault.
- ←The Saltglass Vault — The Unsealing claims the vault's apse as their target — the thing that hums there is what they want running again.
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