GAZETTEER · THE GREATWOOD
The Quiet Stone
aka the Hush-Stone
A moss-furred standing stone in a deep Greatwood hollow where the woods go oddly, unnaturally still — pilgrims and Rootbound sit in the quiet, and no one can say why it settles here and nowhere else.
The stone predates the Imperium and the Asheni both; nobody built it and the Greenwake stopped asking who did. What matters is that within ten paces of it the wood goes still in a way it doesn't anywhere else in the Vale except the Stillwater's tarn — no birds, no wind-noise, just quiet. The Rootbound come to remember what silence feels like. The Mourners have asked Esk about it, politely, twice. She hasn't answered.
KIND
landmark
CLIMATE
deep forest, unnaturally still
DANGER TIER
Tier I
MAP X
-720
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (3)
references
- →Verdigris Lung — Within ten paces of the Quiet Stone even a bad case of Verdigris Lung's shakes seems to still — a natural quiet like the Stillwater's tarn, and nobody can say why it settles here and nowhere else.
- →The Stillwater — The Hush-Stone's quiet parallels the Stillwater's tarn — the two silence-sites the Mourners have noted.
- ←The Rootbound — The Rootbound come to the Hush-Stone to remember what silence feels like — part of their practice before a rooting walk.
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