ITEMS · THE VALE
The Last Hold
A knuckle of grey mineral flowstone from deep in the Karth — formed, slow year on year, around a climber's final grip on the rock before the dark took them. It lends a carrier a little of that desperate sureness of hand and foot.
The Karth Deep swallows climbers, and one of them held on so hard at the end that the rock kept the shape of it: mineral-rich water crept over the dead hand for years until the grip itself was cast in grey flowstone, a knuckle of stone that grips the palm back when you close your hand around it. Carry it and your own grip answers — surer footing on bad ground, a steadier hand on a sheer hold, the strength that comes only when falling is the alternative. It does not tell you the climber fell anyway, and the body is still down there somewhere, unburied and unclosed. Old Work miners are tactful that way — they take the stone and leave the rest be.
KIND
relic
RARITY
rare
FOUND AT
The Karth Deep
ITEM TYPE
trinket
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (3)
hidden_in
- →The Karth Deep — A rare echo-trinket: a climber's final desperate grip on the Karth's rock, found here.
references
- →The Unclosed — An everyday crystallized echo — the substance's ordinary, tradeable face.
- ←The Gaunt Ledger — The kind of everyday echo the Gaunt Ledger moves by the dozen — the rare tier's bread-and-butter trade.
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