Woven Whispers

In the shadows, her web is woven. Silk, secrets, and the stories others dare not speak.

Crystal | Goblin | Shirogane | Ward 29 | Plot 43
Bi-weekly: Fridays 8pm - 11pm EST
Next opening: January 9th 2026

About

At First Glance

A quiet parlor of low light and softer voices – a place to rest, sip something warm, and let the world outside fall away.

Beneath the Surface

An information and gossip brokerage. Threads of rumor, fact, and whispered secrets are gathered, sorted, and offered with care.

Behind the Web

For the curious and the careful, deeper paths exist beyond the visible rooms – subtle bargains, quiet arrangements, and doors that only open for those who notice them.

Woven Whispers is an information, knowledge, and gossip business that thrives on the subtle art of gathering and distributing knowledge — a delicate web of truths spun for those with a need to know. Managed solely by an Au Ra woman who hails from Kugane, known simply as Chishiki, or Chi.Woven Whispers was made for those who seek enlightenment amidst the shadows of secrecy, those looking for little bits of information that may lead them forward. Clients are invited to explore a rich tapestry of insights, ranging from mere gossip to veiled truths, all presented with a blend of discretion and allure.The curator of Woven Whispers has a knack for weaving together the threads of information into a coherent and enlightening narrative, ensuring each client receives the clarity and understanding they desire.To ease the weight of revelation, guests are offered a modest selection of snacks and silken sips — refreshments carefully chosen to soothe the tongue while truths unravel. From delicate confections to calming teas, each offering complements the quiet atmosphere of the broker’s parlor.Though all information has a price… are you willing to pay it?Some who visit Woven Whispers sense that not all threads are meant to be seen. For the curious, the discreet, or the clever, paths may exist beyond the visible rooms—paths that reward attention, wit, and subtlety.


RP Note: Chishikis eyes are completely black, her vision is less than great - she can see more in color than specific detail. She does not seem to have aether also.

“The web doesn’t mind who gets caught.”

Disclaimer: Chi, or Woven Whispers as a whole, is not responsible for any outcomes, misfortunes, hauntings, entanglements, or otherwise inconvenient consequences resulting from the use of her services or the acquisition of cursed, hexed, or spiritually burdened objects.

Services

RP Note: Her office is enchanted. None can hear what is spoken inside.
All Prices are IC only & are suggestions, Chi is open to taking many forms of payment should one not have the gil.

Tier One: Common Threads

Low-risk services, simple requests — for the curious, the cautious, and the discreet.

🕸 Personalized Research:

For questions buried too deep or truths left forgotten, Chi's reach extends beyond paper and ink. What you seek, she can find — in old records, reluctant mouths, or threads tucked in forgotten corners.

Optional Add-ons:

Rush jobs, ritual-bound copies.

Method:

Often delivered in scrolls spun tightly in translucent webbing, faintly scented with lavender and dust; appointments also available to discuss what is found.

🕸 Confidential Consultations:

Within her silk-draped office, Chi offers counsel veiled in quiet. The chamber is tightly warded against any outside ears. She listens. Advises. Connects dots unseen.

Options:

Silent sessions, magically-filtered truths, object readings.

Atmosphere:

Sometimes, a single spider lowers itself on a strand between questions. She never acknowledges it.

🕸 Secret Keeper Service:

Confide your burden. In return, Chi will offer a mirrored tale: anonymized, but eerily familiar. Sometimes, these stories arrive not from her lips — but from a parchment placed before you, the ink still wet.

Warning:

Once spoken, the thread begins to weave.

Tier Two: Silken Webs

Moderate-risk services, deeper reach — for those who need more than truth. They need leverage.

🕸 Evidence Collection:

Subtle webs span more than alleys and walls. Chi’s quiet agents catch whispers, documents, broken patterns — and present them cleanly. Proof, without presence.

Formats:

Silk-wrapped reports, mimicked handwriting, preserved memory strands.

Warning:

The spiders leave no sign… unless Chi wants someone to know.

🕸 Surveillance:

Few realize how many eyes a single web can hold. Chi’s observation methods are quiet, lingering — sometimes literal. She blends into the background, watching, listening, waiting.

Variants:

Emotional monitoring, daily route logging.

🕸 Alias & Identity Crafting:

For those wishing to disappear, be reborn, or insert themselves where they should not be — Chi weaves identities from rumor, record, and shadow. It can be just the papers, something deeper, or both.

Includes:

Forged lineage papers, planted memories, subtle gossip spun into a new truth.

Effect:

Even your reflection may second-guess who you were.

Tier Three: Twilight Threads

High-risk, high-stakes services. Offered only to those she deems worthy… or desperate.

🕸 Track & Trace:

With an item, a name, or a fragment of thought, Chi can find. She slips through city cracks, forest shadows, and shifting aether.

Formats:

Silk-wrapped reports, mimicked handwriting, preserved memory strands.

Risk:

Sometimes, something follows them back.

🕸 Memory Recovery (Experimental):

She threads silk between the conscious and forgotten, teasing memory forward like prey from a burrow. But memory is fragile. And sometimes, not all of it is yours.

Warning:

Identity damage possible. Residual hauntings… not unheard of.

🕸 Alias & Identity Crafting:

For those wishing to disappear, be reborn, or insert themselves where they should not be — Chi weaves identities from rumor, record, and shadow.

Includes:

Forged lineage papers, planted memories, subtle gossip spun into truth.

Effect:

Even your reflection may second-guess who you were.

🕸 Debt Mapping & Leverage Identification:

Every favor, every whisper, every promise creates a thread. Chi can trace them all — revealing who holds power over whom, and how tightly it binds.

Includes:

A delicately drawn web map, threads inked in red, gold, or black depending on severity.

Use:

Perfect for extortion, politics, blackmail… or protection.

🕸 Thread Severing:

Sometimes, a tie must be cut. Chi severs a thread: a memory that clings, a bond that festers, or a whisper that’s followed you too long. Subtle, discreet, and immediate — though it will not undo consequences already set in motion.

🕸 Soft Unravelling:

Not all pain can be excised without tearing the self. Instead, Chi loosens the weave — trauma dulled, edges blurred, jaggedness softened into a quieter ache. Comfort comes, but so too does the risk of forgetting lessons that scars once carved.

Curios

Knowledge Coins

Unique, collectible tokens that symbolize different pieces of wisdom or knowledge, each with its own story and meaning.

Memory Vials

Small glass vials that symbolically capture and hold memories or secrets, each one representing a specific piece of knowledge or past experience.

Whispering Stones

Small, polished stones that are believed to capture and replay the faintest of secrets when held close. Each stone is unique, with natural patterns that suggest the stories they might contain.

Sips & Silks

Anything with a '✦' are non-alcoholic.

Steeped Doman Tea ✦

A calming infusion of chamomile, rice blossom, and wild mint. Steam curls upward in soft spirals.

Moon-Pressed Yuzu Cha ✦

A lightly sweetened citrus tisane made from hand-pressed yuzu peel and steamed rice water. Fragrant, slightly tart, and served lukewarm — a favored drink in Hingashi for calming the nerves.

Black Sesame Brew ✦

Thick, creamy, and nutty. Made from roasted black sesame and oat milk, served warm and lightly sweetened.

Midnight Koi

Black sesame-infused shōchū shaken with a splash of fresh lime juice and honey syrup. Nutty, tart, and smooth with a dark hue.

Crimson Lantern

A bold mix of plum wine, ginger liqueur, and sparkling water. Sweet with a spicy bite and effervescent finish.

Silk & Shadow

A smooth blend of sake, jasmine tea syrup, and a drop of yuzu bitters. Floral, light, with a whisper of citrus and depth.

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Taiyaki

Fish-shaped cakes with crisp edges and a soft center, filled with sweet red bean or custard. Served warm alongside tea.

Cookies

A rotating selection of bite-sized sweets — sesame, citrus, and dark chocolate — meant for sharing or quiet nibbling between sips.

Muffins

Soft, steam-baked pastries studded with seasonal fruits or spices. Best when torn open and eaten while still warm.

Biscuits

Delicate, crumbly biscuits meant to melt on the tongue — lightly sweet, perfect for soaking up the last of one’s drink.

Rules

Anyone found breaking these rules will be given one warning, after that they will be banned.

Split the Silk

Know the difference between in-character and out-of-character.

Threads of Respect

Harassment is not tolerated. Respect others' time and presence.

Shadows with Boundaries

Mature themes dwell here — be mindful of triggers. If unsure, whisper first.

Shared Weaves

Plots involving others require consent. Speak with fellow players before seeking Chi.

Your Story, Your Thread

Chi deepens narrative — she does not create your character’s plot for you.

Anchoring the Web

A Discord contact is required for OOC details and appointments.

The Veiled Vault

Public Stock — Available During Markets

Market-ready inventory. Stock rotates; not all pieces are displayed.

Tomes

All tomes are replica-copies, painstakingly crafted and handwritten. One would be hard pressed to tell the difference.

Available Stock:

❖ The Ivory Script of Silent Saints 🕸

Recovered from beneath the ruins of an abandoned monastery in Coerthas, this vellum bound collection describes rites of “divine quieting,” meant to purge impure thoughts through isolation. Margins reveal later notes suggesting the rites did not silence the minds, but erased voices entirely. Pages smell faintly of incense and frost.

❖ The Myrrh Psalter

A small, perfumed book of prayers written by a sect of healers in Radz-at-Han. Each verse begins as a blessing, ending as an invocation that transposes pain from one body to another. Readers are cautioned not to speak the words aloud while alone… some prayers answer back.

❖ The Glasswork Hymnal 🕸

Bound in mirrored crystal panels, this tome details experiments in using resonance and light to “break the barrier between sound and soul.” Scholars note that certain passages can shatter glass when read aloud, and more than one reader has been found with veins glinting faintly like shards.

❖ The Journal of Blue Embers

A soot smeared notebook belonging to a thaumaturge who studied “cold fire.” Flame that consumes aether, not fuel. Each entry grows more frantic, describing voices in the ash urging her to “burn slower.” The final pages are blank, but warm to the touch.

❖ The Red Threnody 🕸

A stitched book of hymns performed only once in living memory, during a Garlean execution. It describes rhythm and tone as weapons, using harmonic vibrations to unspool aetheric threads. The first note of its primary song cannot be reproduced by any known instrument.

❖ A Treatise on Hollow Harvest

A Sharlayan agricultural text quietly banned after its author suggested siphoning vitality from living creatures to nourish crops. Field notes recount lands that flourished overnight, and farmers that never woke again.

Note:

Additional tomes rotate by market date. Inquire for current stock.

Cursed Objects

Items marked 🕸 are considered extremely dangerous. Stock for most items limited.

Available Stock:

❖ The Mourning Glass 🕸

A crystal vial sealed with black wax. When held, it reflects the viewer’s face weeping softly, even if they are calm. Breaking the seal allows one final vision of someone lost, but the reflection lingers afterward, always just behind the glass.

❖ The Riverbed Locket

A silver locket filled with fine silt from an unknown shore. Opening it releases the sound of distant waves and the faint scent of brine. Owners claim it calls back what the sea has taken, though not always in its original form.

❖ The Sparrow’s Coin

A dull bronze coin stamped with the image of a bird mid-fall. Flipping it decides small fortunes flawlessly: one side always true, one always false. Those who rely on it too often find that chance no longer favors them without its use.

❖ Infinite Satchel

A fine leather satchel, adorned with a multitude of pockets. The inside is enchanted to hold a plethora of items and never become full. It is not recommended to enter the satchel. Woven Whispers is not responsible for any person(s) lost inside.

❖ The Hollow Reed Flute 🕸

A reed flute found half-buried in the Ruby Tide sands. Playing it summons rhythmic echoes, like footsteps matching the player’s pace from somewhere unseen. The song always ends with a single answering note.

❖ The Hollow-Shell Pipe

A long pipe carved from conch shell. Smoke forms ghostly shapes; those who inhale too deeply claim the shapes whisper at night, asking to be let in.

❖ The Shard of Quiet Flame

A sliver of black glass warm to the touch. When clasped, it draws out anger, grief, or fear as faint visible embers. The relief is real, but so is the entity that gathers what’s released.

❖ The Violet-Tongued Bell

A tarnished bronze hand bell wrapped in faded silk. When rung, it whispers names, secrets, or debts owed. Mortals feel only a chill in their bones.

Sundries

Available Stock:

❖ Silks

Expertly woven, surprisingly durable. Colors available on request.

❖ Silken Thread

Rare spools of inky black thread, known for uncharacteristic strength and durability.

❖ Silken Haoris

Silken haori with spiderweb patterns woven in silver or charcoal thread; colors available.

❖ Mimic Tomemark

Closed in a tome, it copies pages; placed in a journal, it reproduces what was marked.

❖ Whisper’s Brew

Floral tea with mint and velvet texture; herbs known for loosening tongues. [Medium tin]

❖ Widow’s Ink

Venom ink with purple pigment; repeat contact reported to cause numbness, paralysis, and memory loss.

❖ Spider’s Eye

Obsidian lens that enhances lie-sense. Side effects may include paranoia.

Hidden Vessels

An assembly of sealed vessels, each containing some sort of being. Warded against premature release, these jars rumor to hold creatures awaiting a worthy companion. Only by nurturing the entity within can one unlock its unique gifts and forge a bond that transcends the mortal realm. Consider carefully before opening — once the seal is broken, there is no turning back. [One per customer.]

Veiled Vault — Curated dangers only select few are deemed worthy.

Discreet holdings and deeper stock. Not all pieces are listed. Not all pieces are shown.

Signature Tomes

❖ Codex Tenebrae 🕸

A Mhachi ledger of living shadows, pages stitched from flayed silhouettes. Ink bleeds upward like smoke; the reader’s reflection moves of its own accord. To finish the final line is to be rewritten as shade.

❖ The Althyk Palimpsest 🕸

A heretical Sharlayan treatise on time’s undoing, scrawled over itself until past and present decay into one. Words crawl backward, whispering alternate endings. Scholars claim it consumes memories to sustain its revision.

❖ The Fulgur Manuscript 🕸

Recovered from Nymian ruins blackened by plaguefire, its script pulses with bio-aetheric current. Read aloud, it reanimates what should rest — and always demands a second host.

❖ The Weeping Concordance

Bound in parchment softened by centuries of tears. Each passage records a name erased from the Lifestream. Reading it aloud calls the forgotten for a single question… and they never forget who summoned them.

❖ Testament of the Empty Star

A cracked tablet veined with voidglass, still warm to the touch. It promises illumination through annihilation; when invoked, something answers.

Select Objects

❖ Bathysmal Phylactery 🕸

A sliverbox of barnacled bone and trapped seawater that remembers drowning. Open it and a face beneath the tide will plead one favor; refuse or betray it and the sea remembers you in your sleep—salt and teeth.

❖ The Sable Lens

A small crystal that reveals aetheric threads in the air. Look too long and you begin to see others’ intentions and desires—sometimes before they act.

❖ Cloak of Soft Echoes

Velvet that dampens sound and conceals presence. Each use leaves a trace of the wearer’s thoughts behind, floating unseen.

❖ The Smuggler’s Map 🕸

A map that shifts to show hidden pathways and illicit caches. Follow it too often and the paths themselves begin to vanish from memory, leaving only risk.

❖ The Forsworn Seal

A ring of black glass engraved with an oath that cannot be spoken aloud. Press it to parchment and it binds the promise invisibly; breaking it brings subtle, lingering consequences.

Upcoming Events

RP Note: All Events unless otherwise stated are considered RP ONLY. Items, Services, or otherwise do NOT require gil to participate.

Paths Beyond the Visible Rooms

Not all knowledge is shared freely, nor all whispers meant for every ear. Some threads are visible only to those who notice the spaces between moments, the pauses in conversation, the subtle glance that speaks more than words.For the discerning, the clever, or the quietly observant, small opportunities may present themselves. A word overheard here, a task performed there, a favor discreetly rendered—each step is a thread, and those who follow them carefully may find themselves invited further into the network.There is no obligation, and no promise of reward beyond what one earns through wit and discretion. Some paths are short, some wind unexpectedly, and some disappear entirely if ignored. Only those who pay attention—and who act with subtlety—will discover where the threads lead.If you find yourself drawn to what lies beyond, prove your worth, and see which doors may open in time.