GAZETTEER · THE EASTERN CRAGS
The Saltless Barrow
One of the unmarked dead the Bonesung will not name — older than the Unclosed, cut by a making the gravesinger's prophecy does not cover. The Cinder Quorum is mid-dig.
No ancestor-poles mark it. No tribe claims it. The barrow road passes within fifty yards and nobody who lives in the Crags has ever put a cairn stone near it. The Cinder Quorum's diggers opened the first ante-chamber two months ago and found stonework they cannot date — before the Imperium, maybe before the tribes, a burial language that writes names in script the prophecy's litany does not recognise. The wights inside answer the wrong names. One digger has not spoken since the second excavation day, and Sevda Ash-Tongue has begun to question whether the prophecy's silence on these dead means they are safe to dig.
KIND
barrow
PARENT PLACE
The Eastern Crags
CLIMATE
still, cold, the air does not move
DANGER TIER
Tier III
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (6)
located_in
- →The Eastern Crags — The Saltless Barrow sits among the unmarked dead of the Eastern Crags, off the barrow road.
occurred_at
- ←quest.the-saltless-dig (unresolved) — The Saltless Dig quest takes place in and around the Saltless Barrow.
hidden_in
- ←The Saltless Barrow-Key — The Saltless Barrow-Key was pried from the inner seal-door of the Saltless Barrow by the Cinder Quorum's dig team.
owns
- ←The Cinder Quorum — The Cinder Quorum is actively excavating the Saltless Barrow on the Gaunt Ledger's contract.
guards
- ←Barrow Wight — Barrow-wights (of an unrecognised type) guard the inner chambers of the Saltless Barrow — the ones that answer wrong names.
references
- →The Barrow Prophecy — The Saltless Barrow is not covered by the Barrow Prophecy — it predates the framework the prophecy describes, which is why its wights answer wrong names.
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