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{{Infobox Artifact
| type = Targeted verbal-compliance artifact
| origin = Verdant, Connecticut
| created = c. 1925–1929
| creator = Order of Aetherion scholars, under Elias Roarke's direction
| current_holder = [[Haley Wegner]] (placed by [[Margot Delacroix]], Fall 2024)
| effect = Compels the wearer to tell the truth and comply with verbal requests; wearer is conscious of the compulsion
| canon_status = Confirmed
| first_appearance = [[Comply]]
}}

== About ==
'''The Anklet of Inevitable Accord''' is a targeted verbal-compliance artifact and Layer 2 of the [[Subconium Shared Universe]]'s supernatural influence system. Where [[The Hemlock Veil]] lowers inhibitions across all of Verdant unconsciously and [[The Darewright Jar]] binds through written slips, the Anklet operates through spoken language: it compels its wearer to tell the truth and comply with verbal requests. Unlike the Veil, the Anklet's effects are personal and targeted. The wearer is aware that something is happening to them.

The Anklet was hidden in the [[Delacroix's Tomes and Treasures|Delacroix]] family vault from 1929 until Fall 2024, when [[Margot Delacroix]] removed it and placed it on [[Haley Wegner]] following a shoplifting incident at [[Delacroix's Tomes and Treasures]].

== Description ==
No physical description of the Anklet beyond its name has been established in canon.

== Origin ==
The Anklet was commissioned by Elias Roarke as an evolution beyond [[The Darewright Jar]]. Where the jar required written slips, Roarke wanted a device that responded to the spoken word, something more fluid and socially integrated than a game requiring paper and a jar. Aetherion scholars completed it between approximately 1925 and 1929, deriving its principles from the jar's established magic. The two artifacts share a fundamental magical origin and are permanently linked.

Roarke's intended use was ambitious. The Anklet was conceived as the first stage of a larger experiment: personal compulsion as proof of concept before attempting Veil-scale compulsion across Verdant's entire population. He never reached the second stage.

== Effects ==
The Anklet compels its wearer to tell the truth and comply with verbal requests made of them. Key distinctions from the other SSU artifacts:

* The effect is targeted and personal, not ambient or town-wide.
* The wearer is conscious of the compulsion. They know something is happening to them.
* The compulsion responds to spoken language, not written directives.
* The Anklet operates above and separately from [[The Hemlock Veil]]. Where the Veil lowers defenses unconsciously, the Anklet actively compels. Both forces acting simultaneously on a wearer compound each other.

== History of use ==

=== 1929: The Delacroix betrayal ===
The only confirmed use of the Anklet before Comply is its use by Gen 7 of the Delacroix line, Margot's grandmother, to kill Elias Roarke in 1929. Gen 7 had infiltrated Roarke's inner circle over years, becoming his lover and closest confidante. When she judged the moment right, she proposed that Roarke test the Anklet himself, framing it as a demonstration of confidence in his own creation. The moment it locked onto his ankle, she issued her commands. Roarke was compelled to kill his family. Her final command: "End your own life." He complied.

Following Roarke's death, Gen 7 secured both the Anklet and [[The Darewright Jar]] in the Delacroix family vault, specifically so neither would be used again.

=== 1929–2024: The vault ===
The Anklet remained locked in the Delacroix vault for nearly a century. It passed through Eloise Delacroix's custodianship and into Margot's without being removed or used.

=== Fall 2024: Comply ===
[[Margot Delacroix]] removes the Anklet from the vault, overriding Gen 7's explicit intention that it never be used again, and places it on [[Haley Wegner]] following a shoplifting incident at [[Delacroix's Tomes and Treasures]]. Haley is the protagonist of [[Comply]] and is conscious of the Anklet's effects throughout the story.

Margot's specific motivation for targeting Haley has not been fully established in canon. Whether this action represents a House Subconium directive or a personal decision by Margot is an open question.

== Relationship to the Darewright Jar ==
The Anklet and [[The Darewright Jar]] are linked artifacts created from the same magical principles. If someone wearing the Anklet draws a slip from the jar, the compulsions compound: the Anklet enforces verbal compliance while the jar enforces written commands, leaving a subject bound by both with minimal agency. Residual connections between the artifacts may reactivate if the Anklet's wearer encounters the jar.

== Canon notes ==
* No physical description of the Anklet has been established
* Margot's specific motivation for placing the Anklet on Haley has not been fully established
* Whether the action is a House Subconium directive or Margot's personal decision has not been established
* Whether there are conditions for removal, or whether the compulsion is permanent while worn, has not been established
* What happens if Haley encounters the Darewright Jar while wearing the Anklet has not been established

== Related articles ==
* [[The Darewright Jar]]
* [[Margot Delacroix]]
* [[Haley Wegner]]
* [[Comply]]
* [[Delacroix's Tomes and Treasures]]
* [[The Hemlock Veil]]
* [[Elias Roarke]]

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[[Category:Supernatural]]

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