Kel-Siruun
| Kel-Siruun | |
|---|---|
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| City | Kar-Thal |
| Realm | Terasil |
| Function | Archives and Stonecraft Guilds |
Kel-Siruun is a tiered arc of scholar-vaults and stonecraft sanctums carved into the upper middle strata of Kar-Thal. Encircling the sacred Ashlar Vaults, the district functions as the city's primary archive and artisan enclave. Every wall, corridor, and column bears inscriptions—etched law-stones, genealogical spirals, resonance codes, and civic treatises dating back to the city’s founding. The district operates in tonal quietude, its halls structured to maintain clarity of thought and reverence for stone-carved memory.
Function
Kel-Siruun serves as the administrative, legal, and artisanal memory-core of Kar-Thal. The district houses the civic archives, guild chambers, and instructional sanctums for resonance etching, law-stone crafting, and ancestral recordwork. Only authorized initiates may access the inner archive vaults, each passage requiring a spoken memory-oath and harmonic verification.
History
Kel-Siruun was established shortly after the formation of the Council of Stone, as a means of inscribing, preserving, and interpreting the foundational laws of Orasian civilization. Its vaults were expanded during the Great Erosion, when many outer memory-stations were lost or sealed. Stonecraft guilds emerged in parallel, their founders drawn from the earliest civic oath-keepers and mountain-etchers.
Notable Locations
- Ashlar Vaults – The central archive chambers, sealed by resonance-locks and accessed only by Lorewardens through encoded tone sequences.
- The Loen-Karith – A circular council hall used for public readings of civic precedent and memory restoration ceremonies.
- Chisel Sanctum of the Vulek-Taruun – Headquarters of the guild responsible for crafting oath-altars, ritual spaces, and structural bindstones.
- Hall of Tarn-Ethuun – Workshop of the city's finest inscriptionists, specializing in harmonic carving and civic decree rendering.
- The Spiral Registry – A gradually descending gallery of etched genealogies, marked by mineral veins and lineage-glyphs.
Cultural Practices
Silence holds authority in Kel-Siruun. Residents and guildmembers speak only in measured tones and use echo-taps for internal communication. Apprentices memorize resonance-lines before carving a single mark, and all tools are housed in memory-labeled vaults.
The district observes the rite of Stonefast Eve—a day of total silence where new civic rulings are carved while elder chimes are ritually stilled. It is said that on this day, the vaults listen more than they echo.
Artisans here are known not only for technical mastery, but for tonal precision and civic clarity. Every etched line is part of an unbroken tradition that defines Orasian continuity.