PERSONAE · THE VALE
Alder Venn
aka the old prospector, Venn of the Cut
The prospector who drove the Sunken Cut chasing a silver seam that pinched out, and died broke for it a generation before the Silt Hands took his works.
Alder Venn read a good seam in a low stone rise southwest of Valenfeld and spent everything he had — and a fair sum he borrowed — driving a test-adit after it. For one season the assays promised a Venn silver name. Then the vein narrowed to a thread, the thread to nothing, and the groundwater came up faster than he could timber against it. He kept digging past the point of sense, wrote his last assay by a failing lamp, and left the Cut to the dark. He died owing more than he ever pulled from the stone. The town remembers him, if at all, as a cautionary tale about the Lean Years: a man the deep promised silver and paid in water.
KIND
mortal
SPECIES
human
ROLE
prospector
LOCATION
The Sunken Cut
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (6)
created_by
- ←The Sunken Cut — Alder Venn drove the test-adit here chasing a silver seam that pinched out.
- ←The Last Assay — Alder's final assay, written by a failing lamp as the vein died.
- ←A Prospector's First Page — The opening leaf of Alder's prospect journal, all hope.
descendant_of
- ←Mara Venn — Mara is Alder's granddaughter, returned to the works that ruined him.
references
- ←The Keeper's Private Ledger — The ledger's rare unguarded line grieves the grandfather the deep ruined.
- ←quest.the-vein-that-lied (unresolved) — Dreva sends the player to carry out the dead prospector's last words.
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