The Drowned Shrine

guards

• ←The Ashen Temple — The Temple rows pilgrims to pray on the drowned steps.
• ←Silt Pike — Silt Pike lurk in the flooded steps of the Drowned Shrine — they hold the submerged lower halls.

references

• →The Wright's Shard — The shrine's pre-Sundering altar answers, faintly, to the barrow's relic.
• →The Sundering — Its altar predates the Sundering and remembers what came before.
• ←The Hessk — Drowned shrines that madden a dry-lander are merely cold and dark to a people who sit on the bottom and wait.
• →The Sundering — The shrine predates the Sundering; when the valley cracked it drowned and the altar survived, answering faintly to the barrow's relic.
• →The Wright's Shard — The shrine's altar and the Wright's Shard in the barrow are both pre-Sundering Imperium work from the same age — old bronze recognizing old bronze, nothing stranger than that, though the faithful say otherwise.
• ←The Slack-Tide Stones — The stones and the Drowned Shrine are the same age of pre-Sundering Imperium work — the Kneeling Drowned treat the stones as the shrine's outer watch.

owns

• ←The Silt Hands — The Hands keep dry cellars under the shrine despite the pilgrims above.

located_in

• ←Silt Pike — It haunts the flooded lower steps of the shrine.
• ←Sumeh the Tideless — She kneels at the standing god through the cold and rows out only at dusk.
• ←The Kneeling Drowned — The flooded shrine is their whole world; they tend the standing god and let its dead ring.
• ←Issuthra, the Drowned Crown — Issuthra coils in the lowest flooded vault of the shrine, below the steps the silt-pike haunts.
• ←The Kneeling Drowned — Keep the flooded shrine, unsealed, and kneel in its tide.
• →Sumeh the Tideless — Sumeh tends the standing god at the Drowned Shrine and kneels in its tide.
• ←The Ashen Temple — The Ashen Temple rows pilgrims out to the Drowned Shrine and wants it sealed against the Kneeling Drowned's use.

occurred_at

• ←quest.the-unhushed-prayer (unresolved) — Swum down the sunken nave to the standing god before the Temple's morning.

hidden_in

• ←The Drowned Prayer — Rings at the standing god in the sunken nave, where the priest sang as the water closed over him.
• ←The Fisher's Last Cast — Hung in the green water beside the prayer — the fisher's last hopeful throw, still arcing.
• ←The Emerald Sword — The Emerald Sword was laid across a green stone font in the drowned shrine of the Lady of the Long Water, kept bright by the still cold water through every flooded year.
• ←The Fisher's Last Cast — A rare echo-trinket: an honest-luck echo of a drowned fisher's last hopeful cast, found here.
• ←The Drowned Prayer — The barnacled reliquary rests on the drowned shrine's altar, praying still.
• ←The Closing Bell — The missing bell drowned with its runner somewhere in the Mirrenmere — the Drowned Shrine is where it came to rest.