GAZETTEER · THE SOUTHERN FLATS
The Salt-Pan Shrine
aka the thirst-shrine, the drovers' altar
A sun-cracked roadside shrine on the white salt flats where drovers left offerings against the heat-thirst.
Out on the blinding salt south of the Vale stands a low shrine of stacked, wind-polished stone, its offering bowl long dry. The cattle-drovers who once crossed the flats left water and copper here against the thirst the heat lies about — and the thirst took many of them anyway. The salt has eaten the carvings smooth; only the shape of a cupped hand remains, and whatever the desperate still leave in it.
KIND
landmark
PARENT PLACE
The Sunbleached Hold
CLIMATE
hot, arid, salt-blinded
DANGER TIER
Tier II
Connected
The Sunbleached HoldPLACE · The salt-pan shrine stands on the dead hold's old ro…The Drover's WreckPLACE · Drovers prayed at the shrine and still died at the w…The Drover's WreckPLACE · Whoever crewed the wreck had left their last copper …Sister Cael of the Cupped HandCHARACTER · Sister Cael lives at and tends the salt-pan shrine.The Cupped Hand OffertoryITEM · The cupped-hand bowl lives at the shrine, carried da…The Lying WaterCONCEPT · The shrine is the land's monument to the lying water…
Type Fields
kindlandmark
parent_placeplace.sunbleached-hold
climatehot, arid, salt-blinded
danger_tier2
points_of_interestthe dry offering bowl, the smoothed cupped-hand carving, the cairn of copper the desperate still leave
map_x475
map_z860
procgen_seed8201
All Relationships (7)
located_in
- →The Sunbleached Hold — The salt-pan shrine stands on the dead hold's old road across the flats.
- ←Sister Cael of the Cupped Hand — Sister Cael lives at and tends the salt-pan shrine.
- ←The Cupped Hand Offertory — The cupped-hand bowl lives at the shrine, carried daily from the spring and back.
references
- →The Drover's Wreck — Drovers prayed at the shrine and still died at the wreck a half-day on; the two mark the same doomed crossing.
- ←The Drover's Wreck — Whoever crewed the wreck had left their last copper in the shrine's bowl behind them.
- ←The Lying Water — The shrine is the land's monument to the lying water — the cupped-hand carving is a prayer against the mirage.
member_of
- →The Ashen Temple — The shrine is in the Ashen Temple's spiritual custody — Sister Cael is their presence here.
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