THE LEDGER · THE FARSHIELD
The Unruled Vein
aka the un-ruled deep, the question in the stone
A resonite vein under the Farshield's shield-wall that the Stonewright Moot has never formally ruled on: old enough that quarrying it might not count as breaking the seal the Deepclan Reavers were exiled over, and exactly the ambiguity a hungry clan or an exiled one would force before the Moot decides.
House Deepvein's galleries run right up to the Unruled Vein and stop, by the wrightmother's own order, because a course cut into ground the Moot hasn't ruled on is a claim nobody can defend if the ruling goes the other way. The vein sits there anyway, rich and unworked, a standing argument in stone: cut it now and prove the house's strength, or leave it and prove the house's patience. It was the Reavers who forced the question: a raiding party pushed in from the drowned side, past markers that were never meant to hold against digging, the same trail of broken seals that started at the Old Galleries on the mainland. Whatever they find down here first will likely decide which way the Moot rules.
KIND
dungeon
PARENT PLACE
The Deepvein Galleries
CLIMATE
cold worked stone, unlit and unclaimed
DANGER TIER
Tier VIII
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (7)
located_in
- →The Deepvein Galleries — The Unruled Vein sits at the edge of House Deepvein's galleries under the Farshield's shield-wall.
references
- ←The Deepclan Reavers — A Deepclan Reaver war-party forced its way into the Unruled Vein through the breach that started at the Old Galleries.
- ←The Old Galleries — The same trail of broken seals that started at the Old Galleries on the mainland ends at the Unruled Vein under the Farshield.
- ←The Moot's Unanswered Question — The rumor hints the vein's surveyed depth exceeds the Moot's authorized ground.
hidden_in
- ←Stoneborn Reavers — Reaver diggers hold the Unruled Vein until cleared.
- ←The First-Cooling Maul — The maul is forged from the first ruled ore off the Unruled Vein.
occurred_at
- ←quest.seal-it-or-sell-it (unresolved) — Wrightmother Hodda Deepvein moves against the Reavers holding the Unruled Vein.
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