Storm-Bastions of the Choir of Glass
| Storm-Bastions of the Choir of Glass | |
|---|---|
| State | Scorval Blight |
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| Feature type | Griefglass fortress |
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The Storm-Bastions of the Choir of Glass are cliffside fortresses carved directly into the griefglass escarpments of Scorval Blight’s Aethergrave Verge. To the Choir of Glass, these bastions are both temple and weapon: cathedrals of sound and shrapnel where storms are harnessed as scripture.
Architecture
Each bastion rises from the Verge like a jagged hymn, its walls formed from griefglass cut and etched with spiral glyphs. Narrow causeways cling to the cliffs, linking towers whose interiors are latticed with resonant cavities and choir-chambers. Lightning rods crown every spire, not to avert strikes but to invite them.
Inside, corridors shift with each Silence Pulse, rooms stretching or contracting as resonance rebalances. Inscriptions crawl across the walls like living text, recording hymns, invocations, and names of those who surrendered their memories to the Choir’s songs.
Storm-Psalms
The Choir of Glass believes that only through pain can the divine be heard. They inscribe their hymns directly into griefglass pillars and vaults, each note calculated to vibrate when storms roll in from the sea or erupt from the Aethergrave.
When lightning strikes a bastion, the etched psalms resonate at devastating volume, turning thunder into a lattice of sound that can shatter stone, flesh, and sanity. To the faithful, these events are revelations. To enemies or the unprepared, they are annihilation.
It is said that hearing a full storm-psalm without protection strips memories away layer by layer, leaving the listener hollow but perfectly attuned to the Choir’s doctrine.
Life in the Bastions
Within the storm-bastions, Choir devotees carve hymns, practice resonance-chants, and submit to ritual scouring of their own memories. Pain is treated as offering; scars, both physical and psychic, are badges of devotion.
Novices learn to etch griefglass without triggering unstable echoes, while veterans stand upon the outer parapets during storms, chanting into the wind until their voices blend with thunder. Some never return from these vigils, their bodies found fused into the walls, becoming part of the fortress and its eternal song.
Strategic Role
Beyond faith, the storm-bastions serve as Scorval’s most terrifying defensive works. Positioned along the most unstable sections of the Verge, they can unleash directed resonance blasts, collapsing cliffs or igniting localized resonance storms to tear apart invading forces.
Rumors persist that certain bastions hold “locked psalms” so potent they could dampen the Aethergrave itself—or crack open whole new rifts if sung incorrectly.
