Halvesh
When a Coldpeak hunter is killed without warning — ambushed, taken from behind, denied the chance to face what ends them — their spirit does not know to stop. It continues its last task: standing watch, running the trapline, holding the perimeter. The spirit is not lost. It is unfinished.
Halvesh is the obligation the tribe carries to finish it for them. The killer must be faced. Not as revenge — as completion. The spirit needs to know that what came for it was seen, was stood against, was answered. Only then does it know the work is done.
Vroth and Orrak were Coldpeak sentinels killed by Rimetalon before the party arrived. Their ghostly forms remained at the camp entrance for weeks, still holding their post. When Rimetalon was finally faced and defeated, they nodded — once each — and were gone.
Halvesh is a Coldpeak tradition. It speaks to Coldpeak dead. The tribe holds it carefully: other peoples carry their dead in their own ways, and halvesh is not the Coldpeak’s to extend or withhold on their behalf. The orcs may wonder. That wondering is its own form of respect.