PERSONAE · THE VALE

Mara Venn

aka the Cache-Keeper

Alder Venn's granddaughter, who came back to the family's drowned prospect and made it a Silt Hands cache — taking from the deep what it once took from her blood.

Mara grew up on the story of the Cut: the seam that lied, the debt that outlived her grandfather, the Venn name spent on water. She did not become a prospector. She became a Silt Hand, and when the ring needed a quiet cache within a short walk of Valenfeld she offered the one place no honest soul would dig again — her own ruined inheritance. She penned the ash-hounds that had denned in the flooded mouth as a living alarm, dried out the old workings, and calls herself the Cache-Keeper without irony. She skims a little off every crate that passes through, and tells herself the deep still owes the Venns that much. She holds the deepest dry chamber and will not leave it; her cutters and hounds are meant to wear an intruder down before they reach her.

KIND

mortal

SPECIES

human

ROLE

cache-keeper

LOCATION

The Sunken Cut

Connected

Alder VennCHARACTER · Mara is Alder's granddaughter, returned to the works…The Silt HandsFACTION · Mara runs the Cut as a Silt Hands cache under the na…The Sunken CutPLACE · The Cache-Keeper holds the deepest dry chamber and w…The Keeper's Private LedgerTEXT · Mara's own hidden skim-book, written in a second col…A Transfer TallyTEXT · The tally names the Keeper's mark on a crate held ba…

Type Fields

kindmortal

specieshuman

rolecache-keeper

locationplace.the-sunken-cut

affiliationsfaction.silt-hands

disposition-10

voice_notesDry, proprietary, grief worn down to grievance. Talks about the deep as a debtor that hasn't finished paying.

secretsHer private ledger skims from the Silt Hands' own cache — Sresha does not know, and Keth Saltrunner would very much like proof.

All Relationships (6)

descendant_of

→Alder Venn — Mara is Alder's granddaughter, returned to the works that ruined him.

member_of

→The Silt Hands — Mara runs the Cut as a Silt Hands cache under the name the Cache-Keeper.

guards

→The Sunken Cut — The Cache-Keeper holds the deepest dry chamber and will not leave it.

created_by

←The Keeper's Private Ledger — Mara's own hidden skim-book, written in a second column only she reads.

references

←A Transfer Tally — The tally names the Keeper's mark on a crate held back a third time.
←quest.the-cache-keepers-ledger (unresolved) — The quest's proof is the Cache-Keeper's own skim-book.

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