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The Reliquary · Cabinet Catalogue

Danger level
Item R–4180–802

The Silver Requiem Vessel

A baroque apothecary bubble jar framed in silver and sealed around black water drawn from the River Styx.

Classification
Funerary boundary vessel
Origin
Acquired in Willowmere by Dr. Alaric Dorne
Estimated date
Baroque era
Collection status
On display
Materials
Hand-blown glass; silver filigree; water of the River Styx
Condition
Sealed; faintly quivering

The Curator’s record

The lid is never to be removed. Grief is not accepted as authorization to test the contents.

Provenance

A traveling antiquarian sold the vessel to mortician Alaric Dorne. He used its water to revive a robin and then his sister Clara, opening a passage that stirred the dead throughout Willowmere.

Observed activity

One drop can prevent a soul from crossing. Faces appear beneath the black water, voices call from wells and basins, and use of the vessel obliges the user to ferry what was summoned back. Dr. Dorne now appears to drift within it and warns observers to keep the lid closed.
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The Tale of this object

The Silver Requiem Vessel

Season 2 · Episode 01

In tonight’s story, we drift to the seaside town of Willowmere, where grief hangs heavier than fog. There, a solemn mortician named Dr. Alaric Dorne inherits a strange antique, a baroque apothecary bubble jar, its curved glass panes gleaming like captured souls, its silver frame etched with reeds and ferry oars. Within, it holds not air, not ash… but the dark waters of the River Styx itself, the ancient boundary between the living and the dead. Dr. Dorne believes he can use it to soothe the pain of loss, to hold back the tide of mortality itself. But some rivers are not meant to be bridged, and some souls do not wish to stay. Tonight, compassion meets consequence in the haunting current of the Tales of the Mystical Caravan…

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