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The Sealing-Ward

A palm-sized iron ward graven with the first figure of a closing-rite, pressed by the Iron Cantors into the hand of whoever casts the vote that seals a living person the Unclosed has taken hold of.

It is cold the way a verdict is cold. The Iron Cantors forge one ward per sealing and give it to the one who tipped the vote, so the weight of the sealing is carried, not abstract. In the hand it settles a lingering Unclosed presence to nothing for a few breaths — wards you against a haunted thing's worst, and quiets whatever lingers in a carried relic you'd rather not wake. The Soft Choir will not touch one. Sela Othrenni's ward sits unfinished on Warden-Binder Sethe's table, waiting on a vote that has not come.

KIND

relic

RARITY

unique

ITEM TYPE

ward

ENCHANTMENT

Briefly settles a nearby Unclosed presence — wards against a haunted thing's worst and quiets a carried relic that's stirring.

Connected

The Sealed ReliquaryPLACE · Kept in the singing vault, never lent, never sold.The SunderingCONCEPT · Stone and echo-glass, made to end what the Sundering…Warden-binder SetheCHARACTER · She alone decides when the Ward is used — and on wha…The Binding-SongCONCEPT · The ward focuses the song.The Iron CantorsFACTION · Forged by the Iron Cantors, one per binding.The Sealed ChoirFACTION · An instrument of the Choir's Hush.

Type Fields

kindrelic

rarityunique

item_typeward

enchantmentBriefly settles a nearby Unclosed presence — wards against a haunted thing's worst and quiets a carried relic that's stirring.

found_atplace.vallenfield-town

All Relationships (9)

hidden_in

→The Sealed Reliquary — Kept in the singing vault, never lent, never sold.

references

→The Sundering — Stone and echo-glass, made to end what the Sundering started.
←Warden-binder Sethe — She alone decides when the Ward is used — and on what.
←The Binding-Song — The ward focuses the song.
←quest.the-echo-touched-child (unresolved) — Carried by the one who binds.
→The Iron Cantors — Forged by the Iron Cantors, one per binding.
→The Sealed Choir — An instrument of the Choir's Hush.
→quest.the-echo-touched-child (unresolved) — Pressed on whoever casts the binding vote.
→Sela, the Ringing Child — Sela's ward waits unfinished on Sethe's table.

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