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The Founding Ritual On Coal Hill
- Elias Pontius Barrow performed an uncanny ritual that cracked Coal Hill and released a sooty darkness into the town.
- He sealed himself in a black coffin beneath the office and was lowered into the earth while his sons enacted a brutal sacrifice to bind that power.
Power Through Emptying The People
- The black dust transformed townspeople into hollow vessels, leaving them obedient tools of the Barrow family.
- This reveals the Barrows' power depends on turning laborers into soulless labor to consolidate control.
Polly's Supernatural Birth
- E.P. Barrow was lowered further into the earth to produce another heir by ritual means and emerged with a daughter born from the black box.
- This produced Pretty Polly Barrow, crafted as a living weapon for the family's interests.