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The Sunbleached Hold — in-engine capture (ruin architecture kit)

GAZETTEER · THE SOUTHERN FLATS

The Sunbleached Hold

A dead hold in the red flats, picked over by everyone and emptied by no one.

Whatever empire raised it left only bones and a heat that lies about water. The Silt Hands run cargo through its cellars; something still prays in its deepest room.

KIND

ruin

CLIMATE

killing heat, no water

DANGER TIER

Tier III

CONTROLLING FACTION

The Silt Hands

Connected

Type Fields
kindruin
parent_place
climatekilling heat, no water
danger_tier3
controlling_factionfaction.silt-hands
points_of_interestthe smugglers' cellar, the praying dark, a sand-choked well
map_x420
map_z820
procgen_seed8200
All Relationships (23)

owns

guards

  • The Silt HandsRunners keep the cellar route open.
  • Bone SaintIt guards the innermost passage the Silt Hands prefer not to use.
  • Sand LurkerSand-lurkers den in the bleached ruin and take whatever comes digging for its buried wealth.
  • Sister Cael of the Cupped HandSister Cael's dawn-penance is an active watch-and-prayer against what emerges from the hold's deepest room.
  • The Hermit of the RibThe hermit watches the hold by counting the bone-saint's prayers from his rib-roost and knows when the cycle peaks.

references

  • AhnassiShe knows the cellar route by rumor.
  • Draneth the ThinHe washed out running cargo through the hold's cellars; he still knows its drops and won't go back.
  • Carrion BeetleWhat 'emptied by night' means, said plainly, is the beetles.
  • quest.the-silent-cellar (unresolved)The quest sends the player into the Sunbleached Hold after a silent cache.
  • The ReshiThe Reshi came up the southern roads past the Sunbleached Hold with the salt and the silk.
  • The EmberthroneThe Emberthrone's ashfall is the heat the southern flats lie about water in — the dead Hold bakes downwind of the fire-mountain.
  • The Hermit's RibThe hermit's cell is sited within earshot (cosmologically speaking) of the hold — he counts the bone-saint's prayers at dawn.

located_in

  • Bone SaintIt occupies the deepest room and has not moved since the hold was abandoned.
  • Silt Hands Cargo CipherFound in the hold's cellar passage.
  • Carrion BeetleThe swarm owns the flats around the dead hold.
  • Sand LurkerIt lies buried in the dust around the hold's dead wells.
  • The Salt-Pan ShrineThe salt-pan shrine stands on the dead hold's old road across the flats.
  • The Drover's WreckThe salted caravan died on the hold's road, never reaching it.
  • Saltreach SpringSaltreach Spring lies in the Southern Flats, its hollow carved from the same rib-country as the dead hold.

hidden_in

  • The Unfailing FontIt weeps cool water in the praying dark below the smugglers' cellar, where the congregation died of thirst around it.
  • Bone SaintThe bone-saint prays in the hold's deepest room — the praying dark.

occurred_at

  • quest.the-inland-leg (unresolved)The cargo run passes through the Sunbleached Hold's cellars.

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