A flute carved from the windpipe of a hanged cantor, still humming the last note he never finished.
Once per day, the wielder may play the Gulletsong's final unfinished note. All enemies within 30 feet must pass DR16 Presence or flee in blind terror for d4 rounds, convinced they hear the sound of their own funeral rites. However, the wielder permanently loses 1 point of Presence each time this ability is used — their voice flattening, their words meaning less and less, until finally they speak and no one turns to look.
The cantor whose windpipe forms this flute was silenced mid-hymn during the Third Psalm Purge — he knew a true name of one of the Two-Headed Basilisks and was executed before he could sing it. That name is still trapped inside the flute. A character who destroys the Gulletsong (shattering it) releases the name audibly — anyone who hears it must pass DR18 Presence or immediately suffer a vision of the exact moment and manner of their death, rendered in perfect, mundane detail. The Meatriarch's choir has been searching for this instrument for years, not for its paralysis properties, but to retrieve the name before someone accidentally speaks it aloud and unravels what little prophecy still holds the end in orderly sequence.


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