
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
The Silt HandsFACTION · They run cargo through the hold's cellars.The Silt HandsFACTION · Runners keep the cellar route open.AhnassiCHARACTER · She knows the cellar route by rumor.Draneth the ThinCHARACTER · He washed out running cargo through the hold's cella…Bone SaintCREATURE · It occupies the deepest room and has not moved since…Bone SaintCREATURE · It guards the innermost passage the Silt Hands prefe…
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
- ←The Silt Hands — They run cargo through the hold's cellars.
guards
- ←The Silt Hands — Runners keep the cellar route open.
- ←Bone Saint — It guards the innermost passage the Silt Hands prefer not to use.
- ←Sand Lurker — Sand-lurkers den in the bleached ruin and take whatever comes digging for its buried wealth.
- ←Sister Cael of the Cupped Hand — Sister Cael's dawn-penance is an active watch-and-prayer against what emerges from the hold's deepest room.
- ←The Hermit of the Rib — The hermit watches the hold by counting the bone-saint's prayers from his rib-roost and knows when the cycle peaks.
references
- ←Ahnassi — She knows the cellar route by rumor.
- ←Draneth the Thin — He washed out running cargo through the hold's cellars; he still knows its drops and won't go back.
- ←Carrion Beetle — What '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 Reshi — The Reshi came up the southern roads past the Sunbleached Hold with the salt and the silk.
- ←The Emberthrone — The 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 Rib — The hermit's cell is sited within earshot (cosmologically speaking) of the hold — he counts the bone-saint's prayers at dawn.
located_in
- ←Bone Saint — It occupies the deepest room and has not moved since the hold was abandoned.
- ←Silt Hands Cargo Cipher — Found in the hold's cellar passage.
- ←Carrion Beetle — The swarm owns the flats around the dead hold.
- ←Sand Lurker — It lies buried in the dust around the hold's dead wells.
- ←The Salt-Pan Shrine — The salt-pan shrine stands on the dead hold's old road across the flats.
- ←The Drover's Wreck — The salted caravan died on the hold's road, never reaching it.
- ←Saltreach Spring — Saltreach Spring lies in the Southern Flats, its hollow carved from the same rib-country as the dead hold.
hidden_in
- ←The Unfailing Font — It weeps cool water in the praying dark below the smugglers' cellar, where the congregation died of thirst around it.
- →Bone Saint — The 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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