ITEMS · THE SOUTHERN FLATS

The Drover's Ledger-Stone

A salt-cured tally-stone from under the wrecked caravan's floorboards — not the goods the first looters grabbed, but the record of what the goods really were and who they were really for. A rare lodestone-like stone that still pulls toward the last route walked.

The scavengers stripped the Drover's Wreck of everything that shone and left the one thing worth carrying: a flat grey stone the lead drover thumbed his tally into, cured hard by the salt that killed his team. It is half ledger and half lodestone — the salt worked its way into the stone's grain the way it works into everything out here, and somewhere in that process it picked up a faint, real pull toward the iron fittings the caravan buried: every cache they hid against the heat, every waymark they cut, the dry wells and the false ones. Hold it and the drovers' old route tugs faintly underfoot, the buried stops drawing the stone like a compass needle finding true. The drovers were running more than salt-fish, and the stone knows for whom; that knowing is worth more than the cargo ever was, to the right buyer and the wrong one alike.

KIND

relic

RARITY

rare

FOUND AT

The Drover's Wreck

ITEM TYPE

trinket

Connected

The Drover's WreckPLACE · Cured hard by the salt under the wreck's floorboards…The UnclosedCONCEPT · The salt caught the last crossing the way salt catch…The Silt HandsFACTION · It remembers for whom the caravan's real cargo was b…The Drover's WreckPLACE · The Drover's Ledger-Stone is hidden under the wreck'…The Drover's Cache-DelvePLACE · The Ledger-Stone's route-memory leads to the Drover'…

Type Fields

kindrelic

rarityrare

found_atplace.drovers-wreck

item_typetrinket

enchantmentWhile carried: senses the caravan's buried caches and waymarks across the flats (a local treasure-sense / route-memory, read as a lodestone pull). A fixed-property relic; not skill-scaled.

All Relationships (6)

references

←quest.what-the-salt-kept (unresolved) — The drover's tally-stone the scavengers never wanted because they didn't know to.
→The Unclosed — The salt caught the last crossing the way salt catches everything out here — a route set into the stone like an echo.
→The Silt Hands — It remembers for whom the caravan's real cargo was bound — the names the Hands would rather stayed salted.
→The Drover's Cache-Delve — The Ledger-Stone's route-memory leads to the Drover's Cache-Delve — the caches it remembers are seated there.

hidden_in

→The Drover's Wreck — Cured hard by the salt under the wreck's floorboards, where the first looters never pried.
←The Drover's Wreck — The Drover's Ledger-Stone is hidden under the wreck's floorboards.

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