The Sered Catacombs

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• →Castle Sered — The undercrofts are cut directly beneath Castle Sered's crag.
• ←The Lower Wardens — They keep the sealed lower halls, mortaring doors that work loose and leaving the offerings.
• →Castle Sered — The Sered Catacombs are cut beneath Castle Sered's crag, their upper stair accessible from the castle courtyard.
• ←Warden Sethri Vouls — Sethri spends most of his waking hours in the upper crypts of the Sered Catacombs, tending the warden's alcove.
• ←Vandahl Wight — Vandahl Wights inhabit the sealed lower halls of the Sered Catacombs — the ranked dead who have rung long enough to walk.
• ←quest.the-uncounted-dead (unresolved) — The Uncounted Dead quest takes place in the sealed lower halls of the Sered Catacombs.
• ←quest.the-door-that-answers (unresolved) — The Door That Answers quest is centred on the east undercroft of the Sered Catacombs.
• ←The Warden's Ledger — The Warden's Ledger is found in the warden's alcove in the upper crypts of the Sered Catacombs.

owns

• ←House Vandahl — House Vandahl owns the crypts where it ranks its ancestral dead — though it can no longer afford to tend the lower halls.

references

• ←Lord-Holder Dravas Vandahl — The Lord-Holder had the lower doors sealed and lets the house pretend the cost was only coin.
• →Vandahl Keep — The Vandahl dead at Sered are the same line that seats at Vandahl Keep — proud upstream, restless below.
• ←A Coward's Field-Guide to the Vale's Barrows — Entry: a grey blade in the deepest niche, and the proud counting wight that still holds it.
• ←The Vandahl Ranked Burial — The Sered Catacombs are the physical expression of the ranked-burial custom — built to enact it, generation by generation.

foreshadows

• →Vallen's Barrow — House dead that will not rest, foreshadowing the older, heavier dead that guard the god-shard in the true barrow.
• ←The Tidewrack Sink — A drowned holy dead that will not rest, kin to the proud house dead refusing the dark inland — faith and pride, both unquiet.

hidden_in

• ←Gravecount, the Heir's Blade — Laid in the deepest, highest-ranked niche of the Vandahl undercrofts.
• ←Gravecount, the Heir's Blade — Gravecount rests in the deepest niche of the Sered Catacombs with the ringing heir who will not stop counting.

occurred_at

• ←quest.the-uncounted-dead (unresolved) — Down past the tended upper crypts to the eldest Vandahl vault and its Warden-shut door.
• ←The Spur Sealing — The Spur Sealing happened in the east undercroft of the Sered Catacombs sixty years ago.

guards

• ←The Lower Wardens — The Lower Wardens are sworn to keep the sealed lower halls of the Sered Catacombs shut and the ranked dead fed.

parent_of

• ←Marrowfold Cairn — Marrowfold Cairn underlies the Sered Catacombs — the Vandahl masons cut downward into the cairn's chambers without reaching the bottom.