GAZETTEER · THE TIDEWRACK NARROWS
The Drowned Bell
An Imperial harbor-bell that fell into the shallows when its tower went; at dead-low slack its lip breaks the surface and the swell rings it, slow and cold — the drowned faithful answer it.
The tower that held it went first and the bell followed, and the sea closed over both on the same morning. Now only the slack-tide shows the lip above the chop, and when the swell breathes right the bell voices itself with no hand on the rope. The drowned faithful in the nearby sink hear it and turn toward the sound. Sailors say that when the bell counts nine strokes the flood has already begun and you are already too late.
KIND
landmark
PARENT PLACE
Gull's Watch
CLIMATE
shallows, tidal surge, gull-grey
DANGER TIER
Tier I
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (3)
located_in
- →Gull's Watch — The Drowned Bell lies in the shallows below Gull's Watch, its sound carrying to the Tidewrack Sink.
foreshadows
- →The Tidewrack Sink — The Drowned Bell's nine strokes signal the flood's return, warning divers in the Tidewrack Sink they are out of time.
references
- →The Unclosed — The Drowned Bell rings with the swell at the same pitch as the drowned shrines; the drowned-faithful hear an ending in it that everyone else just hears as a bell.
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