The Slackwater

Goal: wake the Heartcoal, and let the sea take back the old world.

The Slackwater began as a grief-cult inside the Choir of Fathoms: mourners who stopped praying for the drowned and started praying to them. Its members leave black candles on doorsteps, and whisper that the Sallowkin are only coming home.

Nobody outside the cult knows who leads it. Its members call the leader the Unspoken, and say the Unspoken will act when the lights go out. The next eclipse is ninety days away.

• Where they gather: drowned places, above all the Orrery of Thale.
• Toward the players: hidden enemies.