ITEMS · THE EMBERWASTE
The Deep Ember
A fist-sized lump of named temple-bronze pulled from the Cindervault's apse — still warm centuries on, and glowing with a low light that owes nothing to any fire nearby.
What the Imperium sealed inside. What the Scorch Seekers were looking for. What the Ledger's letter names. Whatever engine or working it was cast for is long broken away from it, and what's left is a single dense mass that has never gone cold and never stopped glowing since anyone dug it out — the priest-engineers built things that held their heat for a reason nobody living remembers, and this is the last of it still doing the job. It does not answer questions; it asks them. The Listening College would seal it again. The Hollow Writ would sell it. The Ashwalkers would put it back. Nobody who has held it has an easy answer for what it wants left for.
KIND
relic
RARITY
unique
EFFECTS SUMMARY
A named Old Work relic that stays warm and faintly glowing; faction-dependent use; attracts ember-wraiths constantly while carried
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (5)
hidden_in
- →The Cindervault — The Deep Ember waits in the Cindervault's apse, sealed inside since the Imperium closed the door.
references
- →The Caldera Question — The Deep Ember is the Caldera Question's physical answer — what the Imperium sealed inside.
- →The Unclosed — Whoever the Cindervault's apse was sealed to keep in was never given a proper ending — the Deep Ember's unnatural warmth is the kind of unfinished thing the Unclosed cling to.
- →The Scorch Seekers — The Deep Ember is what the Scorch Seekers came here to find and liberate.
located_in
- ←Ember Wraith — Ember-wraiths are drawn to the warmth and low light still coming off the Deep Ember in the vault's apse.
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