GAZETTEER · THE TIDEWRACK NARROWS
The Saltsung Barrow
A pre-Imperial sailors' barrow in the south headland's high rock, where the drowned-rite people interred their sea-dead above the tide so salt would keep them — the unclosed dead are more awake here than anywhere in the Narrows.
They cut it when the sea still had a name the living remembered, and laid their dead upright in the stone with salt packed into the shroud so the sea could find them even high up in the rock. The salt-kept dead are not soft like the drowned faithful below; they reach, and they remember their rite — nobody ever spoke the closing words over them, so nothing about their ending was finished. A cracked seam where brine seeps through the wall makes any sound in the chamber come back wrong, thick, behind your teeth. The Coward's Field-Guide says: do not.
KIND
barrow
CLIMATE
salt-cut stone, sound-warping fault, cold wind
DANGER TIER
Tier IV
CONTROLLING FACTION
The Kneeling Drowned
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (5)
references
- →The Drowned Rite — The Saltsung Barrow is the physical embodiment of the Drowned Rite's above-tide salt-burial half.
- ←The Tideraker's Almanac — The Tideraker's Almanac specifically warns against the Saltsung Barrow, echoing the Coward's Field-Guide's rating.
guards
- ←The Saltkept Dead — The saltkept dead stand upright in their burial niches and guard the barrow against the unliving and the living alike.
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- ←The Saltsung Compass — The Saltsung Compass rests on the pedestal above the singing brine fault, carried by every interred captain in rotation.
member_of
- →The Kneeling Drowned — The Kneeling Drowned regard the Saltsung Barrow as sacred ground of the old rite and the saltkept dead as the rite's faithful.
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