Thrice-Drowned Court
The @Thrice-Drowned Court is the sovereign faction of @The Below Realm, a necro-political covenant bound not by blood, but by memory, debt, and the weight of unfinished oaths. They are the keepers of the sea’s regret, rulers of sunken truth, and enforcers of echo-born law. Where other factions wield blade or coin, the Court wields silence—and lets memory do the drowning.
Leadership – @Vaeluth the Tidebound Sovereign
At the center of the spiral throne is @Vaeluth the Tidebound Sovereign , a being who has drowned three times and returned with the Leviathan’s final thought in their heart.
Their face is never seen, always veiled by a living nautilus mask
Speaks through echo-familiars and spectral chords
Every judgment is sung, not spoken
Their memory extends into the sea’s own
Hierarchy of Echoes
The Court does not command—it echoes. Each role is a reflection of memory’s function:
Shellbound Viziers – Recordkeepers and memory-priests who shape law through scribed glyphs and soulbound ink
Choral Judges – Echo-voiced arbiters who decide cases through spectral harmonics
Collectors – Enforcers of the Court’s debt-ledgers, tasked with reclaiming oaths, souls, or items long overdue
Scar-Priests – Mystic agents who commune with the Leviathan Scar and direct its lingering wrath
All members are marked with a Tidebrand, an echo-sigil carved into their spirit, visible only in moments of emotional truth.
Tools & Magic
Echo Scribing – The binding of memories and oaths into glyphs that can curse or preserve
Saltbound Contracts – Magical agreements etched in soul-salt and kelp ink
Wraith Binders – Necromantic soulshapers who animate regrets into servitude
Memory Anchors – Coral totems used to locate or manipulate emotional geography in the Below
Their magic is weighty, haunting, and precise. It doesn’t strike—it returns.
Reach & Territory
The Court’s power resides in:
@Drowned Archive – A repository of every promise and failure the sea has heard
@Spiral Gate – Their border and seal, guarded by echo-bound sentinels
@Coral Scriptorium – Where law, song, and tale become immortal
@The Leviathan Scar – Their holy wound, pulsing with divine madness
While rarely seen on the surface, their influence drifts:
Through whisper-vessels bearing court sigils
In curses that bind surface captains
Across trade routes subtly adjusted by memory tides
What the Court Trades In:
Memory-forged relics
Secret truths sealed in driftbone
Oaths too dangerous for any mortal parchment
Allies & Intrigues
@Abyssal Pactbearer – Shared reverence for Leviathans and echo-forged power
@Wraith Binder – Often serve directly under the Court’s banner
@Brackish Consortium – Trade in recovered lore and cursed items
Enemies:
@Tideblessed Covenant – Calls them blasphemous mockeries of divine will
@Veythane Empire – Declares them sea-bound necromancers and bans their rituals
Neutral:
@Stormcallers’ Covenant – Respects their power, fears their influence
@Coral Regency – Tense diplomatic stalemate over sacred sea territory
Sayings of the Court
“You don’t forget here—you become the forgetting.”
“The sea never forgets. That’s our job.”
“Oathbreakers hear us coming in their sleep.”
The @Thrice-Drowned Court is not a kingdom. It is not a cult. It is the sea’s final memory of you, rendered in judgment, silence, and song.