ITEMS · THE EASTERN CRAGS
The Saltless Barrow-Key
A carved linchpin-stone pulled from the Saltless Barrow's innermost seal — shaped in a script no ash-tribe gravesinger will name, and warm to the touch in a way stone should not be.
The Cinder Quorum's excavation team found it seated in a mortice at the centre of the inner seal-door, and one digger pried it loose before Sevda could tell him not to. It is palm-sized, basalt-grey, carved in a continuous line of script that runs in a spiral so tight the characters are illegible unless the stone is held at arm's length and turned slowly. It is warm. Stone should not be warm in a cave this deep. The digger who took it out of the mortice is the one who has not spoken since.
KIND
relic
RARITY
rare
FOUND AT
The Saltless Barrow
EFFECTS SUMMARY
Unclear. Warm to the touch. The digger who removed it from the mortice has not spoken since.
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (3)
hidden_in
- →The Saltless Barrow — The Saltless Barrow-Key was pried from the inner seal-door of the Saltless Barrow by the Cinder Quorum's dig team.
references
- →quest.the-saltless-dig (unresolved) — The Barrow-Key is the object whose removal triggered the saltless-dig quest's crisis — the struck-mute digger touched it.
owns
- →The Cinder Quorum — The Cinder Quorum's digger pulled the Barrow-Key from the seal; the Quorum technically possesses it, though nobody knows what to do with it.
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