Character
Choirmistress Wen
Faction head
Hook
Speaks only in mirrored hand-signs; the one Evane leader who writes to the Facets.
Voice
(signs) "Every letter I send to Lanternfall is a stroke nobody else sees me draw."
Connected
World
Spells
Echo
A tiny arc, top to bottom, bulging outward
Hush
Silences the enemy for 8 s: no spells or special attacks
Calm, Listen, Hush, Echo
Hushfold (6.3, 6.4)
Items
Elsewhere in the Codex
The Still Choir monk: a silent monk signing in the Middle Market, who leaves a folded note in mirrored hand-signs if the protagonist watches for long enough: a seed for Hushfold and Choirmistress Wen.
From Walkthrough: Prologue and Act 1 › Hooks for side content
Who: Sister Ise; Still Choir monks; Choirmistress Wen.
From Walkthrough: Act 2 › Chapter 6: Faction Visits (optional) › Hushfold: the silent abbey
What happens: snow, no bells, monks signing with mirrored hands. Running is loud here: the valley echoes footsteps back, and monks stop and look. The player walks. Wen speaks only in mirrored hand-signs, the same gestures as mirrored casting, so the player half understands before the subtitles do. Wen asks about the Drowned Steps and whether the Sallow still hums (the Choir claims descent from the Drowned Choir). Wen teaches Calm and Listen (an overworld spell that shows hidden fragments for 20 s) at a listening stone.
From Walkthrough: Act 2 › Chapter 6: Faction Visits (optional) › Hushfold: the silent abbey
Art and audio: snow, the abbey in the echo valley, monks in white. Wen's model: small, upright, hands always visible, sleeves pinned back for signing. A signing animation set (a dozen mirrored gestures, reused). Audio: almost silence: wind, footsteps and their echo; one long sustained tone for the Choir theme.
From Walkthrough: Act 2 › Chapter 6: Faction Visits (optional) › Hushfold: the silent abbey
Where: Hushfold, the empty bell tower (marker
Event_bell_tower), then Wen's writing room.
Who: Wen; an echo glint.
What happens: the bell tower has no bells, and something in it has been repeating the monks' signs back wrong. The echo glint copies the player's last spell and casts it back at them one turn later. Calm (Wen taught it at the listening stone) clears what it lands; the trick is to cast cheap spells for it to copy. After the fight Wen teaches Hush and Echo, hand over hand, and then asks a favour in signs: carry a letter to Lanternfall. The Still Choir is the one faction that quietly trades letters with the Facets. If the player has already met Iver, Wen's letter is addressed to Sorrel the unbinder.
Content to make: Yarn
Act2_Bell_Tower,Act2_Wen_Teach,Act2_Wen_Letter. Encounterecho_glint(enemyecho_glint: repeats the player's previous cast, new code).<<learn_spell hush>>,<<learn_spell echo>>. Itemwen_letter(side quest courier to Lanternfall;+5 rep.choir,+5 rep.facetson delivery;-5 rep.wardensif a Warden finds out). Reward from Wen:reed_collar(breath +80 ms, items tab).
Landmarks: the abbey, the signing hall, the empty bell tower, the listening stone, Wen's writing room.
From Walkthrough: Act 2 › Locations › Hushfold (`hushfold`, scene `Hushfold`)
- Encounter
echo_glint- Enemies
echo_glint(120 HP, casts your previous spell back one turn later)- Counters
- Calm clears its copies (Wen teaches Hush only after this fight; on a rematch, Hush silences it)
- Difficulty
- Normal, a puzzle
The Corran shard (
corran_half_wave): the low-wave half-glyph sliver from the storm. Wen, Iver and Keeper Hale each react to it differently if shown; nobody can trace it. It pays off in Act 3, where it and Aske's hourglass half make the Corran glyph.
Wen's letters: a running courier chain between Hushfold and Lanternfall; Warden attention if caught.