ITEMS · THE VALE
The Bought Oath-Horn
The Marrow Lances' muster-horn, sounded to call the company to a contract — carried off to Hewngate Keep by the wing that broke its oath, and blown now to call men to a chain instead of a banner. In a true hand it still rallies; in Bron Coldhand's it only collects.
A long curl of horn capped in grey company-bronze, older than any Lance now living, that the Marrow Lances sound to muster a wing to its sworn work. When the Broken Lances took Hewngate they took the horn with the keep, and Bron Coldhand keeps it on the toll-hall wall like a deed of sale — proof, to anyone who matters, that the company's word can be bought along with its brass. Sound it and the note carries an old command older men's bones still answer: those who fight beside the bearer stand steadier, and those who hear it falter remember they once swore something. It does not care whose mouth blows it, which is the whole tragedy — the Old Lances want it back not for its worth but because a muster-horn in a keep-holder's hand is the broken oath made audible, ringing out over a road of caged travellers.
KIND
relic
RARITY
unique
FOUND AT
Hewngate Keep
ITEM TYPE
trinket
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (4)
references
- ←quest.the-chain-across-the-road (unresolved) — The company muster-horn on Bron's wall is the prize and the proof of the broken oath.
- →The Marrow Lances — The company's own muster-horn, sounded to call a wing to its sworn work.
- ←Bron Coldhand — Bron keeps the horn on his wall — proof, to anyone who matters, that the Lances' word can be bought.
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- →Hewngate Keep — Hung on the toll-hall wall like a receipt for the company's bought word.
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