ITEMS · THE MIRRENMERE
The Closing Bell
aka The Quieting Bell
A brass bell cast for Temple closing-rites — once rung to mark an ending properly finished, last logged in the Driftmarket's books before vanishing from the ledger entirely.
A small, heavy bell of mottled brass, its clapper fitted with a plug of dense temple-bronze that gives it a low, flat, textureless ring — no overtone to it at all, deliberately, so it can't be mistaken for a funeral chime or a warning. It's rung once at the exact moment a closing-rite finishes: the door latched, the seal replaced, the eyes shut. It was part of a Temple consignment that moved through the Driftmarket three seasons ago and never reached its listed destination. Calder Voss is 'very interested in a certain missing bell' — a closing-rite tool in an unscrupulous trader's hands can be rung over an ending that isn't actually finished yet, forcing something closed before it's ready, which the priests who lost it would very much like back before anyone tries.
KIND
relic
SLOT
held
RARITY
rare
EFFECTS SUMMARY
A ritual closing-rite tool; rung at the completion of a closing marks an ending as finished, calming nearby Unclosed dead. In the wrong hands, can force a closing on an ending that was not ready to be closed.
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (4)
hidden_in
- →The Drowned Shrine — The missing bell drowned with its runner somewhere in the Mirrenmere — the Drowned Shrine is where it came to rest.
references
- →The Unclosed — The bell was cast for the Last Guest's own rite — rung once to mark an ending properly finished, the kind of closing that keeps the Unclosed from ever forming in the first place.
- →The Ashen Temple — The Ashen Temple commissioned the bell for silencing rites — they want it back before someone uses it the wrong way.
- ←quest.the-missing-bell (unresolved) — The missing bell is the quest's objective and its moral pivot — three factions want three different ends for it.
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