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The First Unhushing

Corr Ash-Tongue's own litany, cut into a small temple-bronze grave-bell at the top of his tower — the song with which the first gravesinger taught the dead their names instead of laying them down, and climbed past dying himself. Whoever sounds it commands what he built: lay the tower's dead to rest at last, or take up his unfinished verse and keep the court climbing forever.

At the gravesinger's seat hangs a small bell of temple-bronze, its rim cut all around with the litany Corr sang to raise his court — the first work of the Ash-Tongue method, the same method the tribes unmade the Ash-Tongues for knowing. It is not loud. Rung once, the wights on every landing turn their faces to it the way a choir turns to its choirmaster's cue, and what the bearer sings into it, the dead obey: a name remembered, or a name finally let go. In the litany is everything Corr knew about climbing past death. With it a gravesinger could lay the whole tower to its long-overdue rest in a single descending verse — or take up Corr's unfinished song and become the next voice the court answers to. The Unsealing would copy it backward to wake Vallen's Barrow; the Mourners would melt it; the Cinder Quorum's Sevda Ash-Tongue, who carries the name without his leave, means to be the one who decides which.

KIND

relic

RARITY

legendary

FOUND AT

The Unhushed Tower

ITEM TYPE

regalia

Connected

The Unhushed TowerPLACE · Cut into the black echo-metal bell at the gravesinge…Corr Ash-Tongue, the First UnhushedCHARACTER · Corr's own litany — the song he sang to raise his co…The First UnhushingTEXT · The readable page of the old names is one verse of t…Sevda Ash-TongueCHARACTER · The whole of what the Ash-Tongues knew; Sevda means …

Type Fields

kindrelic

raritylegendary

found_atplace.unhushed-tower

item_typeregalia

enchantmentOn use: command the unquiet dead — bid risen foes fall still (lay to rest) or turn them; the gravesinger's authority over a court of wights. A fixed-property relic; not skill-scaled.

All Relationships (5)

references

←quest.the-stair-of-names (unresolved) — Corr's own song cut into the bell at the seat — lay the tower down with it, or take up the song.
→The First Unhushing — The readable page of the old names is one verse of this litany-bell.
←Sevda Ash-Tongue — The whole of what the Ash-Tongues knew; Sevda means to be the one who decides whether it lays the tower down or takes up the song.

hidden_in

→The Unhushed Tower — Cut into the black echo-metal bell at the gravesinger's seat, top of the stair.

created_by

→Corr Ash-Tongue, the First Unhushed — Corr's own litany — the song he sang to raise his court and climb past dying.

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