ITEMS · THE VALE
The Sundered Crown
The crown of the last emperor of Vallen, cracked clean through at the moment the Sundering broke his city and his god — and never repaired, and never let finish, in all the years since. The one thing that could make the Hollow Writ's claim on the Vale real.
It is bronze and bone and a band of grey temple-metal, split from brow to nape by a single crack that has never closed and never will. The last Imperator of Vallen wore it when Caer Vallen came down, and by every account he lived years after, uncrowned in every way that matters, never abdicating and never crowning a successor — an empire's authority, left hanging open the day the god who backed it died. Set the crown on your head and others feel that unfinished authority reach for them: foes falter, the weak-willed kneel, your own people stand straighter, because a crown that ruled a god-empire does not entirely forget how to be obeyed. But wear it too long and the crown starts to believe you are the emperor it never got to properly hand off to — the wearer begins to feel, faintly and then less faintly, that an empire's worth of dead subjects are still owed a ruler, and a mind can lose its edges trying to be one for people four hundred years gone. The Hollow Writ knows exactly what it is: not a relic, but a legitimacy. Crown a Writ governor with it and the Vale stops being a frontier and starts being a province — whatever it costs the governor's own head to hold that unfinished crown down.
KIND
relic
RARITY
legendary
FOUND AT
Caer Vallen
ITEM TYPE
regalia
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references
- ←quest.the-throneless-hall (unresolved) — The Hollow Writ's grail — the cracked regalia that would make a Writ claim on the Vale real.
- ←The Hollow Writ — Crown a Writ governor with it and the Vale stops being a frontier and starts being a province — the one thing that makes the claim real.
- →Verdigris Lung — Its cracked bronze is thick with old verdigris — Verdigris Lung begins early in whoever keeps it on.
- →The Sundering — Cracked clean through at the instant the Sundering broke Vallen's emperor and his god.
- ←The Hollow Writ — The one thing that could make the Writ's paper claim real — crown a governor with it and the Vale becomes a province.
- →Verdigris Lung — It never stops ringing, and what rings teaches its wearer to ring — an emperor's worth of dead, patient for a head.
hidden_in
- →Caer Vallen — Cracked brow to nape on the dais where the last Imperator wore it as the city came down.
- →Caer Vallen — The last Imperator's crown lies in the throne-wreck of Caer Vallen, where it cracked the day the city came down.
owns
- ←Corren the Last — [bore] character.corren-the-last → item.the-sundered-crown
- ←Corren the Last — His crown — cracked at the Sundering, ringing ever since.
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