Spell
The Still Choir
Described in the Codex; there is no Data/Spells file for it yet, so no strokes to draw.
Tiny, slow, minimal strokes, mirrored. Proposed colour: frost white #E4ECFF. Seat: Hushfold. The four Choir spells are one short straight stroke each, in the four directions. The Choir teaches them as its four quiet directions, and they double as its hand-signs.
Hush (hush)
- Faction, colour: Still Choir,
#E4ECFF - Tier: mirrored
- Right thumb: one short, slow stroke straight down.
- Left thumb: the same (a vertical stroke is its own mirror image).
- Size, breath, corners: 12 mm, 900 ms, none
- Battle: silences the enemy for 8 s: no spells or special attacks.
- Field: roaming glints don't notice you for 20 s.
- Glyph kind: taught
- Learned: Hushfold, taught by Choirmistress Wen hand over hand, in signs, after the echo glint fight.
- Act: Act 2 (optional faction visit)
- Role: control
Calm (calm)
- Faction, colour: Still Choir,
#E4ECFF - Tier: mirrored
- Right thumb: one short, slow stroke straight outward.
- Left thumb: the mirror image, outward to the left.
- Size, breath, corners: 12 mm, 900 ms, none
- Battle: clears every harmful effect on you, then heal 8.
- Field: calms a panicked animal or person, which opens conversations that fear had closed; clears warp-sickness.
- Glyph kind: taught
- Learned: Hushfold, taught by Choirmistress Wen at the listening stone.
- Act: Act 2 (optional faction visit)
- Role: healing
Echo (echo)
- Faction, colour: Still Choir,
#E4ECFF - Tier: mirrored
- Right thumb: one short, slow stroke straight inward, Calm drawn backwards.
- Left thumb: the mirror image, inward to the right.
- Size, breath, corners: 12 mm, 900 ms, none
- Battle: recasts your previous spell at half power.
- Field: repeats the last words spoken in this place, as a clue.
- Glyph kind: taught
- Learned: Hushfold, taught by Choirmistress Wen hand over hand, with Hush, after the echo glint fight.
- Act: Act 2 (optional faction visit)
- Role: utility
Listen (listen)
- Faction, colour: Still Choir,
#E4ECFF - Tier: mirrored
- Right thumb: one short, slow stroke straight up.
- Left thumb: the same (a vertical stroke is its own mirror image).
- Size, breath, corners: 12 mm, 900 ms, none
- Battle: for 10 s, shows enemies hiding in reflections and the tell of the enemy's next special attack.
- Field: shows hidden glyph fragments nearby for 20 s. It is the side-content spell.
- Glyph kind: taught
- Learned: Hushfold, taught by Choirmistress Wen at the listening stone, with Calm.
- Act: Act 2 (optional faction visit)
- Role: utility
Connected
Characters
Elsewhere in the Codex
The Still Choir: sound, stillness, the unseen.
From Mobile RPG Codex › The Two Sides › The Light Side: magic with limits
The Drowned Choir. A choir sang the Mere still and sank with it when it broke. On calm nights the Sallow still carries their hum. The Still Choir claims descent from them.
- Faction
- The Still Choir
- Rule it guards
- Sound, stillness, the unseen
- Drawing style (one per faction)
- Tiny, slow, minimal strokes, mirrored
- Glyph colour **(Idea)**
- Open
- Seat **(Idea)**
- Hushfold
(Idea) The Still Choir talks in mirrored hand-signs, the same gestures as mirrored casting. It is the one faction that quietly trades letters with the Facets.
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
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.
The Still Choir's guilt. The Drowned Choir was the Mending's choir (3.3). A Hushfold quest where Choirmistress Wen reacts to the player knowing.
Story: Act 3's "other stilled places" hook. Hale's ledger has more five-person seals than Corran's, and he marks the nearest: a shepherd's fold in Hushfold's echo valley, stilled thirty-one years ago under a captain the ledger doesn't name. The Still Choir has walked past it in silence every day since, because silence was the rule. Frost glints and an echo owl have gathered on the old seal's leak. When the protagonist threads Thaw over the fold, the shepherd, Abner Coll, wakes thirty-one years late, and the abbey's goats turn out to be his flock's grandchildren. Then someone has to decide who hears about it.
From Side Quests › Hushfold and the Hour Stair › The Ledger's Other Seals (`side_other_stillings`)
- Id
choir_note- Name
- Folded Note
- Use
- The Still Choir monk's note in mirrored hand-signs; read at Hushfold (
side_drowned_choir).From Side Quests › Items, flags and names this tab adds › Regions 1–4, the Ring and caravans