ITEMS · THE VALE
The Unfailing Font
aka the Mercy Basin, the Last Well
A hand's-width Imperial reliquary that beads cool clean water in the killing flats, where every other water lies. The dead empire's last congregation prayed to it; something in the deepest room of the Sunbleached Hold prays to it still.
The red flats lie about water — heat-shimmer, dry wells, salt that shines like a spring. The Font does not lie. It is a small bronze basin no bigger than two cupped hands, and it weeps clean cold water without source or end, and has wept since the hold's empire died of thirst around it. The congregation that raised the Sunbleached Hold prayed here for rain and got, instead, this: a mercy small enough to carry and far too small to save a city, which is the cruelest kind. The thing that still prays in the deepest room prays to the Font. Its water slakes any thirst and breaks any fever — and flung or poured on the walking dead it scalds them the way the Vault-Weeper's brine scalds stone, for the dead of the flats remember dying dry. Carry it and the desert cannot kill you the honest way. The Silt Hands would sell it for a season's cargo. The praying dark would kill to keep it.
KIND
relic
RARITY
legendary
FOUND AT
The Sunbleached Hold
ITEM TYPE
vessel
Connected
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Type Fields
All Relationships (4)
hidden_in
- →The Sunbleached Hold — It weeps cool water in the praying dark below the smugglers' cellar, where the congregation died of thirst around it.
worships
- ←Bone Saint — The dry dead kneel to the basin that still gives water and will not suffer it carried off.
references
- ←The Silt Hands — The Hands would sell it for a season's cargo if they knew the cellar was not the bottom.
- ←quest.the-silent-cellar (unresolved) — The deep prize, past the cellar the runner died in.
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