Cabed i Crumguruin is a judicial and symbolic punishment practiced among the
Doli-Quessiri. It is less an execution than a message: a way of showing all land-dwellers that the waves themselves can pass judgment.
Victims are cast from their resting place into a magically wrought rift, plunging them for a day into the
Elemental Plane of Water. Though they return alive, they are forever marked by the experience, often suffocating in the first minutes, eaten by sea creatures or covered in kelp.
The Ritual
The
Doli-Quessiri use ritual-bound traps woven from coral, seagrass, and pearls infused with planar glyphs. When the guilty one lays in bed, the enchantment triggers, collapsing the boundaries of their chamber and plunging them directly into the endless abyss of the Water Plane. The effect lasts 24 hours by planar time, yet only 10 minutes pass on the Material Plane.
There are rumors, that those that survive miraculously, or by intention of not drowning (in the rare case), are forever scarred. They can never again sleep on dry land, going to the sea to feel the comfort of the waves, often to be drowned within the next year.
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