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The First Fork
A tuning-fork of dense temple-bronze lost in the Karth Deep, older than the Listening College — by some accounts the first tool anyone used to find true Old Work bronze by its ring on purpose. It amplifies a Listener's craft the way a staff amplifies a spell.
Struck, it gives a note you feel rather than hear, and any true temple-bronze in earshot answers back at the same pitch — real sympathetic ring between two things cast to the same exacting tolerance, the way one well-made bell will always answer another. The College teaches this as a still-yourself-and-match-the-pitch craft, part instrument, part patient ear; the First Fork does half that work for a carrier, ringing true off Old Work far past their training and letting a Listener find, and hold a bead on, salvage that would otherwise stay buried and silent. It was lost in the Karth when the Imperium fell, down where the leeches are and the Drawing-Down's damage still runs deepest, and the College has wanted it back for longer than the College has had its current name.
KIND
relic
RARITY
legendary
FOUND AT
The Karth Deep
ITEM TYPE
staff
Connected
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Type Fields
All Relationships (9)
hidden_in
- →The Karth Deep — Lost in the Karth Deep when Vallen fell, down where the Sundering hums closest.
references
- →Relic-Reading — It amplifies the tuner's art — does half the still-yourself-and-match-the-pitch work for you.
- ←The Far College — The College has wanted it back for longer than the College has had a name.
- →The Sundering — Older than the College, from when Vallen fell — by some accounts the first tool used to hear an echo on purpose.
- ←quest.the-lost-note (unresolved) — The First Fork is the objective and the prize — recovered here, kept on the keep fork.
- ←quest.let-it-melt (unresolved) — The Fork's retrieval is the ultimate Let-It-Melt test — does taking it prove Vael right or wrong?
expressed_in
- ←Old Work — The College's founding tuning-instrument is Old Work as precision device, not weapon — irreproducible Imperium make, recovered and kept working because no one alive can build a second.
guards
- →The Cold Keeper — The Cold Keeper keeps the First Fork — whether by intent or proximity, retrieving the Fork means facing whatever holds the cold.
owns
- ←The Cold Keeper — Whether by intent or proximity, the Fork is in the Cold Keeper's domain — taking it means taking it from the thing that keeps the cold.
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