'A bell capable of summoning various spirits from ashen remains. It usually requires FP to use. Spirits can only be summoned in the vicinity of a rebirth monument.' The Spirit Ashes are the canon's quietest moral economy. Wherever a great battle ended, the residue of the dead, physical ash, but also the persistent fragment of soul that the Erdtree's order calls 'a spirit', settles into the ground. A spirit-tuner can extract that residue and tune it into a Spirit Ash : a single charge that, when activated near a rebirth monument, summons a brief copy of the dead warrior to fight beside the Tarnished. Roderika tunes them. Hewg shapes the bells. Ranni's questline introduces the lore in formal terms.

'Ashen remains in which spirits yet dwell. Use to summon the spirits of two Leyndell soldiers. Spirits of soldiers each equipped with a spear and greatshield. The soldiers of Leyndell fight their battles defensively. During the Shattering, the soldiers were ordered to defend the capital with their lives.' Each Spirit Ash's description is a one-paragraph elegy. The Leyndell soldiers fight defensively because they died defending. The Skeletal Bandits keep rising because they were already cursed to. Black Knife Tiche, the named Numen assassin, is the most powerful Spirit Ash in the canon, and her one-line tells the story of the Night of the Black Knives. The Tarnished's army, as it approaches the throne, is increasingly composed of dead they themselves never met, soldiers of fallen orders, knights of routed campaigns, sorcerers whose academies sank. Each Spirit Ash bell-summon is a name being used by someone for whom the name is no longer their own.

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ItemSpirit Calling Bell

A bell capable of summoning various spirits from ashen remains. It usually requires FP to use. Spirits can only be summoned in the vicinity of a rebirth monument. When summoning is possible, the monument icon will be visible on the left side of the screen.

Spirit AshLeyndell Soldier Ashes

Ashen remains in which spirits yet dwell. Use to summon the spirits of two Leyndell soldiers. Spirits of soldiers each equipped with a spear and greatshield. The soldiers of Leyndell fight their battles defensively. During the Shattering, the soldiers were ordered to defend the capital with their lives.