ITEMS · THE SOUTHERN FLATS
Saltglass Instrument Shard
aka Saltglass Resonator Shard
A fused crystal of salt and Imperium tuning-glass from the Saltglass Vault's apse — it still rings a true note when struck near the apse's old seal-instruments, and studying it teaches something real about the tolerances the empire's engineers cut their bronze to.
The brine that flooded the Vault's fault-line during the Drawing-Down dried over centuries around a shard of the apse's tuning-glass, fusing Imperium instrument-glass and natural salt into something neither was before. Struck near one of the vault's surviving seal-instruments, it rings back at the same true pitch — plain metallurgy, the kind of sympathetic ring any two pieces cast to the same exact tolerance will give each other, nothing more mystical than a well-made bell answering its twin. The Listening College calls it evidence of Imperium precision-casting; the Unsealing calls it a key to the apse mechanism. Both are right, which is the problem.
KIND
relic
RARITY
rare
FOUND AT
The Saltglass Vault
ITEM TYPE
trinket
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (3)
hidden_in
- →The Saltglass Vault — The saltglass instrument shard is found in the vault's salt-glass apse.
references
- →The Unclosed — The shard's true ring is ordinary sympathetic vibration, cast bronze answering cast bronze — nothing like the cosmic claim the Unsealing make about it and the vault's Unclosed dead.
- →Relic-Reading — The shard is a partial Relic-Reading teaching piece — studying it teaches something real about the tolerances the empire's engineers cut their bronze to.
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