ITEMS · THE VALE
Death of Seasons
A long spear of grey wood and grey iron that brings the turning early. Where its point goes in, the season goes out — green to brown to nothing in a breath — the Ruin half of the old scholars' wheel, set on a haft.
The Old Reckonings — the demoted old scholars' doctrine, argued over now more than believed — held that the Five Elements rise through one wheel, the Rebirth, each thing growing into the next, and fall through its twin, the Ruin, each thing wounded into the next, fire into water into the cold dead earth. Whether the doctrine is true of the whole world or not, whoever forged Death of Seasons believed the Ruin half of it enough to put it in a weapon, and the spear does not care if the theory is sound. It is unlovely on purpose: a fast grey shaft, a leaf-blade gone the colour of a late field. A thrust does not merely cut — it ages the wound, rushing the foe down the whole falling wheel at once, frost and rot taking the flesh together the way a hard winter takes a standing crop, and the cold of it lingers and keeps killing after the point is drawn. The Listening College keeps it under guard not because it is holy but because it is honest: it does to a body, quickly, what the world does to everything, slowly. It is a long reach and a colder one. The seasons end where it points.
KIND
relic
RARITY
legendary
FOUND AT
The Rootbound Hollow
ITEM TYPE
weapon
Connected
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Type Fields
All Relationships (4)
hidden_in
- →The Rootbound Hollow — Death of Seasons was sealed in a rot-wrapped cache in the Rootbound Hollow, where the Ruin itself stands guard over the spear that hurries the turning.
references
- →The Cycle of Ruin — The spear is the Ruin set on a haft — it ages a wound, rushing the foe down the whole falling wheel at once, frost and rot taking the flesh together.
- →The Five Elements — The spear drives the foe down the descent of the Five Elements — fire wounded into water into the cold dead earth — in a single thrust.
owns
- ←The Far College — The Listening College kept Death of Seasons under guard not because it is holy but because it is honest — it does to a body, quickly, what the world does to everything, slowly.
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