GAZETTEER · THE EASTERN CRAGS

The Unhushed Tower

A gravesinger's spire on the crags' barrow road, climbed floor by floor through the court of dead he raised instead of let rest — the first work of the Ash-Tongue name, and the thing the Unsealing make pilgrimage to.

Where every other barrow on the crag road was cut to keep the dead down, the Unhushed Tower was raised to bring them up. Corr Ash-Tongue built it as a stair: each grave-hall stacked on the last, each landing a deeper class of the risen, climbing toward the seat at the top where he refused the Last Guest's closing on himself and has never let it fall. The wights still answer the old names on the walls — the Unclosed, kept from a proper ending by his working, not by any song. The Unsealing climb it on pilgrimage and copy the wards backward; the Cinder Quorum's Sevda Ash-Tongue, who carries the first gravesinger's name without his leave, means to climb it to the top. Most who go in are counted among the court by the third landing.

KIND

dungeon

PARENT PLACE

The Eastern Crags

CLIMATE

still, dry, ash on the wind

DANGER TIER

Tier IV

Connected

The First UnhushingITEM · Cut into the black echo-metal bell at the gravesinge…Ancelot, the Ancient Cross of WarITEM · Ancelot was stood point-down in an unnamed oath-reli…Corr Ash-Tongue, the First UnhushedCHARACTER · Corr Ash-Tongue raised the tower as a stair and sang…Corr Ash-Tongue, the First UnhushedCHARACTER · Corr sits enthroned at the top of his own stair, con…The UnsealingFACTION · The Unsealing climb the tower on pilgrimage and copy…The Cinder QuorumFACTION · The Cinder Quorum — and Sevda Ash-Tongue, who carrie…

Type Fields

kinddungeon

parent_placeplace.the-eastern-crags

climatestill, dry, ash on the wind

danger_tier4

controlling_factionfaction.the-unsealing

map_x1860

map_z40

points_of_interestthe stair of names, the stacked grave-halls, the gravesinger's seat

procgen_seed4133

All Relationships (18)

occurred_at

←quest.the-stair-of-names (unresolved) — Up the stair of names past the hollow wardens to the gravesinger's seat and the litany-bell.

hidden_in

←The First Unhushing — Cut into the black echo-metal bell at the gravesinger's seat, top of the stair.
←Ancelot, the Ancient Cross of War — Ancelot was stood point-down in an unnamed oath-reliquary in the Unhushed Tower — left, the way you leave a thing you do not want to count aloud.

created_by

→Corr Ash-Tongue, the First Unhushed — Corr Ash-Tongue raised the tower as a stair and sang its court of dead up its landings.

guards

←Corr Ash-Tongue, the First Unhushed — Corr sits enthroned at the top of his own stair, conducting the court below.
←Hollow Warden — Hollow wardens stand the tower's landings, the deeper-sung of Corr's court.
←Hollow Warden — The Hollow Wardens are Corr Ash-Tongue's deepest-floor court — the risen he keeps as guardians of the upper stair.

references

←The Unsealing — The Unsealing climb the tower on pilgrimage and copy its wards backward — Corr did first what they attempt at Vallen's Barrow.
←The Cinder Quorum — The Cinder Quorum — and Sevda Ash-Tongue, who carries the first gravesinger's name — mean to climb the tower to its seat, the logical end of the doctrine the tribes unmade her for.
→The Weeping Vault — Both are sealed-death sites on the crag barrow road, kept apart for opposite reasons — one to hold the dead down, one to bring them up.
←The First Unhushing — A page of the old names cut into the stair of the Unhushed Tower.
←Old Dabbeth — Dabbeth has studied the Unhushed Tower's dead-walking wards for forty years and knows the order they keep.
←The Dusk-Singing Wind — Old Dabbeth says the dusk-singing wind produces the same tone as the Unhushed Tower's third landing — the two sounds share the same wind-carved acoustic, nothing more, though he says it like it's more.
←Sevda Ash-Tongue — Sevda stands at the foot of the Unhushed Tower's stair and cannot make herself climb it — the tower she means to reach is the one she cannot enter.

located_in

→The Eastern Crags — The Unhushed Tower rises from the mesa at the barrow road's far eastern end within the Eastern Crags.
←Dabbeth's Roost — Dabbeth's Roost is situated directly at the foot of the Unhushed Tower's stair.
←Corr Ash-Tongue, the First Unhushed — Corr Ash-Tongue is enthroned at the top of the Unhushed Tower, the gravesinger-lich conducting his court from the seat he built.

member_of

←The Unsealing — The Unsealing makes pilgrimage to the Unhushed Tower and copies its wards backward — it is the cult's sacred site.

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