THE LEDGER · THE RIMEWARD
The Rime Barrow
aka the upper-terrace ground
The burial ground above Windcut Hold's upper terrace, where the Rimeward holds lay their honoured dead, and where a long-unwatched grave has begun to swing like its living kin.
Every hold in the fjord sends its dead up to the terrace above Windcut Hold, and every hold used to keep a turn watching the ground the way the mainland holds once watched the Wind-Cut Pass, until the years after the crossing, when the watch thinned to a formality and then to nothing, because nothing had ever needed watching before. The barrow is cut the old way, drystone chambers stepped into the slope, each sealed with the dead's own arms by the grave-right and left that way until a living kin says otherwise. What woke first, and why, no hold-elder will say for certain. Only that the watch should never have thinned, and that the ground is answering for it now.
KIND
dungeon
PARENT PLACE
Windcut Hold
CLIMATE
fjord-cold, wind-scoured terrace, deep snow
DANGER TIER
Tier VIII
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (5)
located_in
- →Windcut Hold — The Rime Barrow is the burial ground above Windcut Hold's upper terrace.
guards
- ←Korl Wight-Lord — A second high-grave Korl wight-lord holds the Rime Barrow's sealed chamber, the same threat type as the Lance-Barrow's guardian.
expressed_in
- ←The Korl Grave-Right — The grave-right that seals a Korl's arms with them until a living kin sanctions release governs the Rime Barrow's burial chambers.
hidden_in
- ←The Wall-Holder's Maul — The honor-guard's grave-goods lie sealed in the Rime Barrow until the sanction rite releases them.
references
- ←quest.the-rime-barrow-watch (unresolved) — The honor-guard is finally laid to rest in the Rime Barrow.
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