The hornsent are a horned people, descendants of the Crucible's primal forms before the Erdtree pruned them into a single golden mould. They built spiral towers across the Realm of Shadow and worshipped the older horned gods whose names the Erdtree's faith no longer permits. They were a culture of inquisitorial scholarship: their priests bound captives into jars in pursuit of revelations, and their saints rose into divinity through the same vessel-tradition Marika may have come from. Their cruelty to outsiders, particularly to those who would later become Marika's own kin, was absolute.

Messmer's crusade reduced the hornsent to a remnant. The grandam at the centre of Belurat is the last of her elders; the wandering hornsent NPC the Tarnished may meet, the avenger, is the last warrior of his line. The hornsent's surviving incantations and weapons all carry the same theme: a beauty of horn and spiral that the Erdtree was not strong enough to allow into its new world without first burning the old one down.

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ArmorBraided Arm Wraps

Ragged black cloth tied with braided cord. Attire of a vengeance-seeking hornsent.

CraftingAntiquity Scholar's Cookbook [1]

A record of crafting techniques left by the hornsent academics who studied the ancient ruins of Rauh. Details techniques for working with sprites thought lost to antiquity. Acquire the knowledge to craft the following: - Fire Spritestone