GAZETTEER · THE NORTHERN RAMPART

The Last Lamp

aka the Wind-Cut waystation, the Vigil-house

A single-room stone waystation crouched just below the Wind-Cut Pass, kept by the Vigil, where a lamp lit by Dame Ysolt Farewatch's own hand has not gone out in thirty years and any traveler who must cross the pass can shelter, eat, and be sent on with a blessing, no tithe asked.

The Vigil built nothing grand here, and nothing grand was needed: four walls of Rampart stone, a hearth, a bench along each wall, and the lamp itself, a plain clay bowl of consecrated oil on an iron bracket by the door, never let to gutter since Ysolt took the Farewatch rank. Travelers who mean to cross the Wind-Cut at dusk — when the tribes say the wind speaks and will not cross after — stop here first, and the ones with sense stay the night instead. There is no altar, no tithe-box, no doctrine posted on the wall; there is bread, a fire, a cot if you need one, and Ysolt or whichever Lamp-Sworn is standing the waystation that season, who will hear your trouble, feed you regardless of what you can pay, and walk you to the cairn-line at first light if the crossing still frightens you. The lamp is the whole of the place's theology: it burns because someone keeps it burning, the same as any oath, and the Vigil has decided that is answer enough to whatever is actually happening when it does.

KIND

structure

PARENT PLACE

The Wind-Cut Pass

REGION

the-northern-rampart

CLIMATE

alpine, wind-scoured, just below the snowline

Connected

The VigilFACTION · The Vigil's headquarters is the Last Lamp, a single …Dame Ysolt FarewatchCHARACTER · Ysolt has kept the Last Lamp for thirty winters and …The Wind-Cut PassPLACE · The waystation sits just below the Wind-Cut Pass, th…

Type Fields

kindstructure

parent_placeplace.windcut-pass

regionthe-northern-rampart

climatealpine, wind-scoured, just below the snowline

danger_tier3

controlling_factionfaction.the-vigil

points_of_interestthe never-gone-out lamp on its iron bracket by the door, the plain hearth and benches, no altar, the cairn-line path up to the pass proper

All Relationships (3)

located_in

←The Vigil — The Vigil's headquarters is the Last Lamp, a single waystation below the Wind-Cut Pass, not a chantry or cathedral.
←Dame Ysolt Farewatch — Ysolt has kept the Last Lamp for thirty winters and rarely leaves it unattended.
→The Wind-Cut Pass — The waystation sits just below the Wind-Cut Pass, the one foot-crossing of the Northern Rampart it exists to shelter travelers for.

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