GAZETTEER · THE NORTHERN REACH
The Marrow-Hollow
A tribal death-house cut into a granite ridge above the Karth gorge, sealed by the Bonesung and left to barrow wights — the Broken Lances have been told there is silver inside.
The tribes shaped this cut-stone hall for their dead before they learned silence, and the sealing is old and deliberate: a wedge of rock, a painted mark, and the understanding that the wights here are not enemies but guards. When a Broken Lances digging crew went in with what they claimed was a real contract, the escort came out alone and the diggers did not. The silver may be real. The wights certainly are.
KIND
barrow
PARENT PLACE
Karth Bridge
CLIMATE
cold stone, old cedar-smoke, the dark of held breath
DANGER TIER
Tier IV
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (7)
located_in
- →Karth Bridge — The Marrow-Hollow is cut into a ridge above the Karth gorge, a hard half-day from the ford.
- →The Bonesung-of-the-Vale — The Marrow-Hollow is a tribal death-house sealed by the Bonesung and considered sacred — the tribes left it to the barrow wights deliberately.
- ←Barrow Wight — Barrow wights hold the Marrow-Hollow's inner chambers, undisturbed for generations — they are the Bonesung's unintended wardens.
- ←The Broken Lances — A Broken Lances escort contract took a College party into the Marrow-Hollow under the pretense of a legitimate dig; only the escorts came back.
- ←The Marrow-Hollow Silver — The silver came from the seam inside the Marrow-Hollow — cut by whoever went in, with or without the diggers.
references
- ←quest.sold-on-the-gorge (unresolved) — The Marrow-Hollow is the site of the betrayal; the quest's combat resolution requires entering it.
- →The Ash-Return — The Marrow-Hollow was built for tribal burials before the Bonesung learned silence; it follows the ash-return rite, with niches painted for the dead's journey.
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