GAZETTEER · THE VALE
The Waking Deep
aka The Hushing Deep
A bell-haunted barrow-annex in the eastern hills where the dead never got a proper closing — go armed, and don't sound anything you can't outrun.
An older mouth of the same dead country Vallen's Barrow guards, half-collapsed and full of standing stones the Mourners have hung with quieting bells. This is unclosed ground — dead who were never given the Last Guest's proper rite — and the bells are the Mourners' fix: ring the wrong one and something that should have stayed down gets up instead. Wonderful to find, dangerous to linger in: the deeper arches still answer when you make a sound.
KIND
dungeon
PARENT PLACE
The Eastern Hills
CLIMATE
still, cold, ringing
DANGER TIER
Tier V
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (12)
guards
- ←The Mourners of the Hush — The Deep is their charge; they keep its bells in tune and its robbers out.
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- →The Eastern Hills — An older mouth of the same dead country, up in the eastern ridges.
- ←Veil-keeper Orsa — You'll find her at the bell-gallery, retuning what the dark knocks loose.
- ←Barrow Wight — The Deep's echoes hold the wights upright long past their rest.
- ←Vallen Revenant — Revenants drift the silent vault, answering any sound but the bell.
- ←Kessa Bellringer — She haunts the Hushing Deep, ringing what the Mourners muffled.
- ←The Bellwakes — Slip into the bell-haunted deep to ring what was silenced.
references
- →The Sundering — The echoes here are thick enough to hold the dead upright.
- ←quest.the-unhushing (unresolved) — Set in the deepest gallery of the Hushing Deep.
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- ←The Last Latch — Lost down the answering arch, where only a fool or a hero goes.
- ←The Cantor's Broken Seal — Set into the bell-haunted crystal of the Hushing Deep where its singer fell mid-binding.
- ←The Last Word — Caught in an altar-bell in the deepest gallery.
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