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Read Unmailed Letter for a separate rooftop escape plan involving the cathedral's bell tower.",[102],{"title":98,"text":103},"My son, By the time you read this, I'll be gone already. I’m sorry but the pain is too much. I don’t want to end up like the rest of our neighbours – vomiting and shitting myself to death. But you’re young – I know you can survive this. Take the money and…","Paper",0.01,22,2,{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":110},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_Letter.webp","A Goodbye Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[114],{"kind":31,"name":115,"path":116},"Unmailed Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#unmailed-letter",{"slug":118,"name":119,"path":33,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":120,"excerpts":121,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":124,"sellValue":48,"icon":125,"categories":128,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":129,"relations":130},"a-gourmets-memoir","A Gourmet's Memoir","Stained with grease. The wedding menu names sheep’s cheese, ciorba, blood sausage, leek soup, slivovitz, smoked carp and garlic catfish. It is a traveller’s account of local hospitality and ingredients; A Blood Soup Recipe provides a separate set of written cooking instructions.",[122],{"title":119,"text":123},"Never in my life have I eaten better than at a Sangoran wedding! First, they served us sheep milk cheese. It was perfectly balanced, both sweet and sour. Then there was a rich stew, called ciorba, or something like that. 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Still, are you sure that what you wrote is true? I don't want to sound ungrateful, but I can hardly believe it… He always seems so……",0.02,19,4,{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":170},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_Note.webp","A Letter Found in the Warehouse inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":175,"name":176,"path":177,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":178,"excerpts":179,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":184,"categories":186,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":187,"relations":188},"a-letter-to-iancu","A Letter to Iancu","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#a-letter-to-iancu","A letter from Leontin to Iancu. Leontin gives Iancu a lead on his missing birth parents: a castle report places a beast near Balaur on the night they disappeared. The soldiers sent to investigate returned empty-handed. Iancu’s own note then explains his decision to leave Parlita and climb the mountain.",[180],{"title":181,"text":182},"Blood-Stained Letter","Iancu, I'm writing to let you know that I have stumbled upon something that might shed light on the fate of your birth parents. According to a report I found in the castle archives, the night of their disappearance, there were also sightings of some beast…","Quest",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":185},"A Letter to Iancu inventory icon",[6],[],[189],{"kind":31,"name":190,"path":191},"Iancu's Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#iancus-note",{"slug":193,"name":194,"path":195,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":196,"excerpts":197,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":200,"sellValue":201,"icon":202,"categories":205,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":206,"relations":207},"a-manumit-camp-destroyed","A Manumit Camp Destroyed","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#a-manumit-camp-destroyed","Communication between Brencis's soldiers. Corporal Kadis reports destroying a rebel camp but taking no prisoners. Three more deaths have left his unit at half strength after the previous week’s losses, explaining his request for reinforcements despite the raid’s success.",[198],{"title":194,"text":199},"Sir, We’ve been able to raid and destroy a manumit camp in the nearby forest. Tried to capture at least one of them, but I have to give it to them – they fought like devils and all died in combat. I lost three of my own men. With the casualties from the last…",60,6,{"src":203,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":204},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBG5.webp","A Manumit Camp Destroyed inventory icon",[6],[],[208,211],{"kind":31,"name":209,"path":210},"The wider manumit problem","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-manumit-problem",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":213,"name":214,"path":215,"detail":13,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":13,"answered":13,"description":216,"excerpts":217,"rarity":18,"material":18,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":167,"icon":219,"categories":221,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":222,"relations":223},"a-page-from-silass-book","A Page from Silas's Book","\u002Fitems#a-page-from-silass-book","An old yellowed page, scrawled over with some undecipherable scribbles.",[],12,{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":220},"A Page from Silas's Book inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":225,"name":226,"path":227,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":228,"excerpts":229,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":232,"buyValue":233,"sellValue":48,"icon":234,"categories":237,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":238,"relations":239},"a-physicians-journal","A Physician's Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#a-physicians-journal","Nearly illegible handwriting. A seven-year-old describes a morning with fairies that lasted until sunset, then refuses food and sleep because she wants to return. The physician dismisses her account as obsession. The legend of Sanzhani and Aine offers a contrasting account of encounters with the same kind of woodland beings.",[230],{"title":226,"text":231},"Patient's description: A girl, seven years old, a merchant's daughter. No siblings (two brothers killed by the plague) Illness symptoms: The patient claims that three days ago, while gathering mushrooms in the woods, she met 'some fairies'. She refuses to…",0.1,43,{"src":235,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":236},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBW7.webp","A Physician's Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[240,243],{"kind":31,"name":241,"path":242},"Sanzhani and Aine","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-legend-of-the-sanzhani-and-aine",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":245,"name":246,"path":247,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":248,"excerpts":249,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":232,"buyValue":65,"sellValue":252,"icon":253,"categories":256,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":257,"relations":258},"a-price-not-to-pay","A Price Not to Pay","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#a-price-not-to-pay","Cautionary tale. The story’s apparent cure is a fang driven into a dying bride’s heart; the ending reveals a slaughtered village after the couple vanish. The Blood Covenant’s chapter on Envy supplies the related religious warning about people using vrakhiri teeth to transform themselves.",[250],{"title":246,"text":251},"This is not a tale to listen to with only half an ear or run your eye over before bed. There was once a man with a bride so fair it seemed the sun rose only to catch her smile. 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It adds the reason for the soldier's presence there and contrasts with the ambitious family advice in Letters From Home.",[269],{"title":270,"text":271},"Soldier's Letter from a Friend","Hey Tomil, I heard the place they sent you to is a complete shithole. Ulri said he was so happy when he finally got out, he nearly cried. The stink of the swamp and the mosquitoes would surely make me lose my mind. And that’s why I didn’t fucking swipe…",15,3,{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":275},"A Soldier's Letter from a Friend inventory icon",[6],[],[279],{"kind":31,"name":280,"path":281},"Letters From Home","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letters-from-home",{"slug":283,"name":284,"path":285,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":286,"excerpts":287,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":290,"sellValue":22,"icon":291,"categories":294,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":295,"relations":296},"a-vicars-inquiry","A Vicar’s Inquiry","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#a-vicars-inquiry","Illegal samizdat. The vicar asks Father Florin how Brencis’s teaching can be reconciled with the Bible’s prohibition on consuming blood. This is a direct theological challenge to the new regime; the Covenant’s chapter on Pride presents the argument used to justify being bled.",[288],{"title":284,"text":289},"Dear Father Florin, I am just a humble priest, trying to understand the intricacies of Knyaz Brencis’s teachings. He says we should ‘follow the Bible’s teachings, but read it anew’. But how are we to do this, when the Bible says verbatim: \"None of you may…",33,{"src":292,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":293},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBY9.webp","A Vicar’s Inquiry inventory icon",[6],[],[297,300,301],{"kind":31,"name":298,"path":299},"How the Covenant justifies bleeding","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#blood-covenant-on-the-sin-of-pride",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":302,"path":303},"Florin","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fflorin",{"slug":305,"name":306,"path":307,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":308,"excerpts":309,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":313,"sellValue":22,"icon":314,"categories":317,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":318,"relations":319},"abandoned-outpost-note","Abandoned Outpost Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#abandoned-outpost-note","A letter from the time of the plague. The outpost was abandoned because the miasma was approaching. Dead rats are the writer’s warning sign, and departure is planned before sunrise. Read it alongside Lacra’s questline for the miasma’s effect on the region.",[310],{"title":311,"text":312},"Outpost Refugee's Note","The miasma is heading this way. Dead rats line the path. The rotten air follows soon after. It was a good plan, but the outpost is no longer safe. Pack your things, tell the boys. We’re leaving first thing tomorrow morning. Before the sunrise. Maybe we can…",45,{"src":315,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":316},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBW2.webp","Abandoned Outpost Note inventory icon",[6],[],[320],{"kind":31,"name":321,"path":322},"Lacra’s quests and the miasma","\u002Fguides\u002Flacra-questline",{"slug":324,"name":325,"path":326,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":327,"excerpts":328,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":331,"sellValue":22,"icon":332,"categories":335,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":336,"relations":337},"accident-report","Accident Report","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#accident-report","A first-hand account of some disturbing events. Anton’s collapse begins when a snake-shaped figurine falls from a crate at an excavation. The workers avoid looking at it; his later nightmares and disappearance give the report a second stage beyond the initial injury. Read it alongside Xanthe’s secrecy orders for the risks surrounding the recovered relics.",[329],{"title":325,"text":330},"Accident report (to be delivered to the captain – immediately!) Last Thursday, soldier Anton of Parlita, age 19, was on duty, helping the dig site workers load crates onto a cart. When one of the workers accidentally dropped a crate, a strange object – a…",55,{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":334},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_Diary_notebook_jurnal.webp","Accident Report inventory icon",[6],[],[338,341],{"kind":31,"name":339,"path":340},"Xanthe’s excavation orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#xanthes-orders",{"kind":31,"name":342,"path":343},"Excavation investigation","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#report-about-excavations",{"slug":345,"name":346,"path":347,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":348,"excerpts":349,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":107,"icon":353,"categories":355,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":356,"relations":357},"admonition-from-xanthe","Admonition from Xanthe","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#admonition-from-xanthe","Ominous and creepy. Xanthe now names Coen of Laslea as a threat to the court and demands his death. Her leverage over the troops is their blood supply: success earns more of her blood, while failure means painful deprivation. Read this after her earlier Cautionary Note to follow the escalation.",[350],{"title":346,"text":351},"Yet more death, yet more disappointment. I feel the ground shaking, I hear the low rumble of the coming storm. The stars couldn’t be clearer: Coen of Laslea may become our doom. Do not rest until you catch him, do not sheathe your swords until they taste his…",13,{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":354},"Admonition from Xanthe inventory icon",[6],[],[358,361],{"kind":31,"name":359,"path":360},"Cautionary Note from Xanthe","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#cautionary-note-from-xanthe",{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},"Xanthe","\u002Fbosses\u002Fxanthe",{"slug":365,"name":366,"path":367,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":368,"excerpts":369,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":372,"sellValue":201,"icon":373,"categories":376,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":377,"relations":378},"aeetes-and-jason","Aeëtes and Jason","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#aeetes-and-jason","A story from long, long ago. Jason defeats the warriors raised from dragon’s teeth by throwing a stone among them and provoking a fight. Cadmus and the Dragon tells a parallel origin story for tooth-born warriors; both texts use the name Vrachoi and associate it with rocks.",[370],{"title":366,"text":371},"Aeëtes could see clearly that Jason lusted after the Golden Fleece and would not depart Colchis without obtaining it. Fearing to confront him directly, the cunning king promised Jason he would grant him the fleece if Jason completed certain tasks. One of…",49,{"src":374,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":375},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBBL11.webp","Aeëtes and Jason inventory icon",[6],[],[379,382],{"kind":31,"name":380,"path":381},"The other dragon’s-teeth story","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#cadmus-and-the-dragon",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":384,"name":385,"path":386,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":387,"excerpts":388,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":107,"icon":392,"categories":395,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":396,"relations":397},"alchemical-note","Alchemical Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#alchemical-note","Scrupulous records written down by a devoted experimenter. The author compares animated objects with reanimated bodies and then considers binding a soul to its own flesh at death. These experiments explain the alchemical research surrounding What Moves the Dead; Silas’s Book has a separate acquisition route and learning reward.",[389],{"title":385,"text":390},"Straw and clay were simple enough to fashion, but replacing sinew and bone proved much more troublesome. Thus far, my greatest success hath been the reanimation of a young cutpurse, hanged but a day prior, his flesh still gripped by rigor mortis. Into his…",23,{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":394},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_Burnt_Note.webp","Alchemical Note inventory icon",[6],[],[398],{"kind":31,"name":399,"path":400},"Silas’s Book and its reward","\u002Fitems\u002Fsilass-book",{"slug":402,"name":403,"path":404,"detail":13,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":13,"answered":13,"description":405,"excerpts":406,"rarity":183,"material":18,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":407,"categories":410,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":411,"relations":412},"ambruss-blood-network","Ambrus's Blood Network","\u002Fitems#ambruss-blood-network","The boyar's undertaking seems quite ambitious.",[],{"src":408,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":409},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_MAP.webp","Ambrus's Blood Network inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":414,"name":415,"path":416,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":417,"excerpts":418,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":421,"categories":423,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":424,"relations":425},"ambruss-invitation","Ambrus's Invitation","\u002Fitems\u002Fambruss-invitation","A note from Ambrus. Ambrus gives a direct challenge: go to the hill by Maragir and ring the old bell at night. The time of day and bell are the actionable details; the Ambrus guide covers the confrontation itself.",[419],{"title":415,"text":420},"Coen of Laslea, I have had enough of your incessant meddling with my affairs. You are like a louse gnawing at my scalp, causing an unpleasant itch. I think it is time for resolution. No more of those little bites. That is so unbefitting of a vrakhir, don’t…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":422},"Ambrus's Invitation inventory icon",[6],[],[426],{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},"Ambrus","\u002Fbosses\u002Fambrus",{"slug":430,"name":431,"path":432,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":433,"excerpts":434,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":438,"sellValue":167,"icon":439,"categories":441,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":442,"relations":443},"ambush-plans","Ambush Plans","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#ambush-plans","Communication between thieves. Aldo tells Eberhard that the transport he has investigated will leave at dawn the following day. Its guards will be weighed down by their cargo, creating the opening he wants the ambushers to exploit. He also orders them to erase their tracks so the boyaress cannot identify the attackers.",[435],{"title":436,"text":437},"Instructions from Aldo","Eberhard, Hope this message finds you well. I managed to drink one of the hag's men under the table, then made him talk, then loaded his overcoat with rocks and took him for a swim. The next transport will set out tomorrow at dawn. Lots of soldiers, but…",14,{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":440},"Ambush Plans inventory icon",[6],[],[444],{"kind":31,"name":445,"path":446},"Requisition Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#requisition-letter",{"slug":448,"name":449,"path":450,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":451,"excerpts":452,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":273,"icon":456,"categories":458,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":459,"relations":460},"an-anonymous-tip-off","An Anonymous Tip-off","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#an-anonymous-tip-off","A detailed account of someone’s wife’s alleged wrongdoings. The anonymous writer names a building by Neustadt's northern wall as a vantage point over a gambling den and tells the husband to climb onto its roof at night. This is the specific meeting-place clue in the letter.",[453],{"title":454,"text":455},"An Anonymous Tip-Off","Sir, You don’t know me, but I know your situation – that there’s not been much money in your purse recently. I also know that your wife likes to waste anything you earn in the gambling houses. She promised you to stop, but trust me – she has not. She just…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":457},"An Anonymous Tip-off inventory icon",[6],[],[461],{"kind":31,"name":462,"path":463},"Lovers's Instructions","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#loverss-instructions",{"slug":465,"name":466,"path":467,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":468,"excerpts":469,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":472,"sellValue":252,"icon":473,"categories":476,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":477,"relations":478},"an-expeditioners-journal","An Expeditioner's Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#an-expeditioners-journal","Tattered and crumpled. The expedition finds bird-shaped masks on bodies at three otherwise different burial sites. Its author offers two explanations: deterring grave robbers or helping dead champions become birds. These remain the journal’s competing interpretations of a shared burial custom.",[470],{"title":466,"text":471},"Each of the three burial sites I explored was different when it came to funeral practices, but they all had one thing in common. All three bodies were decorated with distinctive bird-shaped masks. Why was that so? And why birds of all things? It might have…",58,{"src":474,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":475},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBR6.webp","An Expeditioner's Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[479,482],{"kind":31,"name":480,"path":481},"Ancient peoples and their tombs","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#arimaspians-and-their-secrets",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":484,"name":485,"path":486,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":487,"excerpts":488,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":492,"categories":494,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":495,"relations":496},"an-inscription-from-the-gargoyles-mouth","An Inscription from the Gargoyle's Mouth","\u002Fitems\u002Fan-inscription-from-the-gargoyles-mouth","A mysterious note, written in an unknown language. Meet Crake in Neustadt by day and follow him to Mevasser. Inspect the woodcut, then investigate the house by the stone arch in Altenmarkt to find Silas’s workshop.",[489],{"title":490,"text":491},"Mysterious inscription","Ach'h-trok-enakh Mar'khaald-enehs-lel'mar Tarj-a-trak'h Ler-raan Ar-zekg'h-ir-ghaalk",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":493},"An Inscription from the Gargoyle's Mouth inventory icon",[6],[],[497],{"kind":31,"name":498,"path":486},"Follow the inscription and workshop clues",{"slug":500,"name":501,"path":502,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":503,"excerpts":504,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":273,"icon":507,"categories":509,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":510,"relations":511},"an-invitation","An Invitation","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#an-invitation","The 'Pale Lady's' love letter. The Pale Lady has discovered where her admirer watches her and proposes a meeting on a nearby roof. The invitation turns the secret lookout into the focus of their encounter.",[505],{"title":501,"text":506},"To my dearest ‘Admirer’, For this is the moniker you decided to use – I admit that I find this secrecy very alluring. As well as the beautiful poem you sent me. Oh, just to quote my favourite part: “I watch you from my secret place As the moon bathes you in…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":508},"An Invitation inventory icon",[6],[],[512],{"kind":31,"name":462,"path":463},{"slug":514,"name":515,"path":516,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":517,"excerpts":518,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":167,"icon":521,"categories":523,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":524,"relations":525},"an-unsent-letter","An Unsent Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#an-unsent-letter","Written in an elegant style. Bartolomeu Mavrogheni fled Ambrus's takeover of Maragir and is hiding in a forest cave. He asks his cousin Vincentiu in Buda for help and plans a disguised daytime return to the village.",[519],{"title":515,"text":520},"Dear Vincentiu, I’m not sure if you’ll ever receive this letter – they say that Vale Sangora has been cut off from the outside world. But who knows, maybe this missive will somehow find its way to Buda, my dearest cousin. Now, onto current matters. What a…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":522},"An Unsent Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[526],{"kind":31,"name":527,"path":528},"Servant's Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#servants-letter",{"slug":530,"name":531,"path":532,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":533,"excerpts":534,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":232,"buyValue":472,"sellValue":252,"icon":538,"categories":540,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":541,"relations":542},"an-unsent-missive","An Unsent Missive","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#an-unsent-missive","Must have been written by the house's previous owner. Matey bought a house near Carpenter’s Row, heard activity beneath it and asked Florin to perform an exorcism. Florin’s sudden interest in the location connects this domestic letter with his search of the ancient ruins.",[535],{"title":536,"text":537},"An unsent letter","My dearest Galya, I have bad news. Although I was able to scrounge enough money to buy that house near Carpenter’s Row, it has turned out to be a shoddy investment. I should've been wiser than that – the seller seemed awfully relieved when he gave me the…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":539},"An Unsent Missive inventory icon",[6],[],[543],{"kind":31,"name":544,"path":545},"Florin’s underground search","\u002Fguides\u002Fsvartrau-underground#florin",{"slug":547,"name":548,"path":549,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":550,"excerpts":551,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":554,"categories":556,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":557,"relations":558},"ancient-poem","Ancient Poem","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#ancient-poem","Ambiguous yet unsettling. The She-Spider’s web represents connections in which touching or breaking one strand affects another. The poem centres on unintended consequences; Beyond the Veil develops a different account of reality extending beyond ordinary human perception.",[552],{"title":548,"text":553},"The She-Spider weaves a tangled web Connecting everything, connecting all Touch one strand and another responds Break this thread, and that one snaps And as you lament the unforseen result The eastern wind carries her cackles",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":555},"Ancient Poem inventory icon",[6],[],[559],{"kind":31,"name":560,"path":561},"Reality beyond the senses","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#beyond-the-veil",{"slug":563,"name":564,"path":565,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":566,"excerpts":567,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":570,"categories":572,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":573,"relations":574},"angry-letter-from-ambrus","Angry Letter from Ambrus","\u002Fitems\u002Fangry-letter-from-ambrus","Written in response to the recent attacks on the knyaz's blood cellars.",[568],{"title":564,"text":569},"My esteemed brother-in-arms, Seeing how Coen of Laslea keeps disturbing our operations, I decided to send him a message – something to sober him up. Pick a few prisoners scheduled for draining and send them my way, to Maragir. Time to get creative. Boyar…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":571},"Angry Letter from Ambrus inventory icon",[6],[],[575],{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":577,"name":578,"path":579,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":580,"excerpts":581,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":167,"icon":584,"categories":586,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":587,"relations":588},"angry-letter-from-bakir","Angry Letter from Bakir","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#angry-letter-from-bakir","Full of hyperbole and threats. Bakir responds to several soldiers dying at the hands of a single attacker by ordering his remaining men to fight to the last. His later Reproachful Letter identifies Coen and demands his head, turning this first rebuke into a more explicit threat.",[582],{"title":578,"text":583},"My dearest, loveliest serfs, I hope this letter finds you in good health – or, at the very least, alive, in contrast to some of your comrades. I am saddened by their recent deaths (how untimely!), but also somewhat angered – they all died by the hand of a…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":585},"Angry Letter from Bakir inventory icon",[6],[],[589,592],{"kind":31,"name":590,"path":591},"Reproachful Letter from Bakir","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#reproachful-letter-from-bakir",{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},"Bakir","\u002Fbosses\u002Fbakir",{"slug":596,"name":597,"path":598,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":599,"excerpts":600,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":167,"icon":604,"categories":606,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":607,"relations":608},"angry-note","Angry Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#angry-note","The author was obviously fed up. Conbert bans drinking on the logging job after Dulce was killed by a falling trunk. The note explains the dispute over the bottles and the foreman's anger.",[601],{"title":602,"text":603},"A Note from an Alcohol Stache","You lousy fuck digging through my shit: do not touch a single bottle. Remember Dulce and how his brains splattered on that trunk that crushed him? That's what happens when you drink on this job. ‘Oh, Conbert, but it takes the edge off’ ‘Oh, Conbert, but the…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":605},"Angry Note inventory icon",[6],[],[609],{"kind":31,"name":610,"path":611},"Miner's Diary","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#miners-diary",{"slug":613,"name":614,"path":615,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":616,"excerpts":617,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":273,"icon":622,"categories":624,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":625,"relations":626},"announcement","Announcement","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#announcement","Document concerning the recent alcohol poisonings. The notice closes a tavern after severe alcohol poisoning and blames manumit sabotage. It connects Bakir’s alcohol supply to the conflict with the rebels; the Shipping Ledger shows how that supply also serves as a reward or punishment for different settlements.",[618],{"title":619,"text":620},"Tavern Closed until Further Notice","Due to severe alcohol poisoning resulting from shameful manumit sabotage, the tavern is closed until further notice. We shall prevail! Long live the knyaz!",16,{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":623},"Announcement inventory icon",[6],[],[627],{"kind":31,"name":628,"path":629},"Shipping Ledger","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#shipping-ledger",{"slug":631,"name":632,"path":633,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":634,"excerpts":635,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":638,"categories":640,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":641,"relations":642},"annoyed-letter-from-ambrus","Annoyed Letter from Ambrus","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#annoyed-letter-from-ambrus","Written in response to the recent attacks on the knyaz's leech collectors. Ambrus asks a fellow commander to send unwanted collectors to Maragir, with nobles preferred. He intends to use them to leave a message for Coen. The Threatening Letter repeats the demand for prisoners of noble birth and makes the planned use of bodies explicit.",[636],{"title":632,"text":637},"My esteemed brother-in-arms, I heard you aren't entirely happy with some of your collectors. Round them up, please – as per usual, those of blue blood are preferred – and send them my way, to Maragir. This Coen of Laslea is beginning to get on my nerves –…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":639},"Annoyed Letter from Ambrus inventory icon",[6],[],[643,646],{"kind":31,"name":644,"path":645},"Threatening Letter from Ambrus","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#threatening-letter-from-ambrus",{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":648,"name":649,"path":650,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":651,"excerpts":652,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":273,"icon":656,"categories":658,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":659,"relations":660},"anonymous-diary","Anonymous Diary","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#anonymous-diary","An eyewitness account of Skender's ruthlessness. The diarist witnessed Skender's soldiers massacre rebels at Shrike's Crag. Read Call to Revolt next: its appeal explicitly invokes the same massacre, connecting the eyewitness account with the later resistance manifesto.",[653],{"title":654,"text":655},"An Anonymous Diary","This world we live in – it’s a horrid place, forsaken by God and His Saints. The rumours about peasants conspiring against Knyaz Skender proved to be true. I could see them from my hut as they travelled to Shrike’s Crag. Some of them even approached my home,…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":657},"Anonymous Diary inventory icon",[6],[],[661,664],{"kind":31,"name":662,"path":663},"Call to Revolt","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#call-to-revolt",{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},"Skender","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fskender",{"slug":668,"name":669,"path":670,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":671,"excerpts":672,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":107,"icon":677,"categories":679,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":680,"relations":681},"anonymous-threat","Anonymous Threat","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#anonymous-threat","Whoever wrote it wasn't the recipient's friend. The anonymous writer is blackmailing Ratelm over harm done to the writer's family during Skender's rule. The next demand is double payment at a meeting in the forest.",[673],{"title":674,"text":675},"An Anonymous Threat","Ratelm, You think you’re smart. I know you went to the guards and told them about my previous letter. Told them that I threatened to kill you. And let me guess: they told you it wasn’t their problem and you should buy a sword to protect yourself instead of…",24,{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":678},"Anonymous Threat inventory icon",[6],[],[682],{"kind":31,"name":683,"path":684},"Threatening Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#threatening-letter",{"slug":686,"name":687,"path":688,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":689,"excerpts":690,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":696,"categories":698,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":699,"relations":700},"answer-from-lunka-brencis","Answer from Lunka: Brencis","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#answer-from-lunka-brencis","Written down and delivered by sanzhani. This reply concerns Brencis taking prisoners downstairs and Lunka’s account of warmth and a heartbeat-like movement under the cells. The reply about Pieter instead discusses their father’s plans, so choose the letter matching the question you are following.",[691,694],{"title":692,"text":693},"Answer from Lunka about Brencis","Coen! You’re alive! I had a dream about you last night, it was so awful… Brencis, he cut your head off and... I don’t want to talk about it. Mirto said he wouldn’t do that anyway; he’d eat you like the others. I’m so glad he didn’t! We miss you so much……",{"title":692,"text":695},"Brencis is taking people away… every day, he takes someone from the cells and they never come back. They go downstairs… I don’t know where. Everyone’s afraid. Sometimes it feels like the floor is thumping like a heart, and then it gets warm. Mirto said I’m…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":697},"Answer from Lunka: Brencis inventory icon",[6],[],[701,704,705,708],{"kind":31,"name":702,"path":703},"Lunka’s reply about Pieter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#answer-from-lunka-father",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":706,"path":707},"Lunka","\u002Fcharacters\u002Flunka",{"kind":31,"name":709,"path":710},"Mirto","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fmirto",{"slug":712,"name":713,"path":714,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":13,"description":715,"excerpts":716,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":721,"categories":723,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":724,"relations":725},"answer-from-lunka-defences","Answer from Lunka: Defences","\u002Fitems\u002Fanswer-from-lunka-defences","Written down and delivered by sanzhani.",[717,719],{"title":718,"text":693},"Answer from Lunka about Defences",{"title":718,"text":720},"There are so many guards everywhere… and those creepy men in silver masks, too. And I’ve heard screams… from the other cells. The big vrakhir comes down here, too. We didn’t see him. I don’t want to see him! And one time… those men were here, they talked…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":722},"Answer from Lunka: Defences inventory icon",[6],[],[726,727,728],{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":706,"path":707},{"kind":31,"name":709,"path":710},{"slug":730,"name":731,"path":703,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":732,"excerpts":733,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":739,"categories":741,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":742,"relations":743},"answer-from-lunka-father","Answer from Lunka: Father","Written down and delivered by sanzhani. Lunka says Pieter is trying to arrange a rescue with other prisoners while hiding his distress from the family. This is the family-focused reply; the Brencis reply concerns disappearances from the cells.",[734,737],{"title":735,"text":736},"Answer from Lunka about Pieter","Coen! You’re alive! I had a dream about you last night, it was so awful… Brencis, he cut your head off and... I don’t want to talk about it. Mirto said he wouldn’t do that anyway; he’d eat you like the others. I’m so glad he didn’t! We miss you so much… Dad…",{"title":735,"text":738},"Dad didn’t give up, he never does. He keeps saying he’ll get us out. That he won’t let Brencis kill us and we shouldn’t be scared. He talks to other people down here – they’re like Vladimir, he says, and they have friends who will come free all of us,…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":740},"Answer from Lunka: Father inventory icon",[6],[],[744,746,747,748,749,752],{"kind":31,"name":745,"path":688},"Lunka’s reply about Brencis",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":706,"path":707},{"kind":31,"name":709,"path":710},{"kind":31,"name":750,"path":751},"Pieter","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fpieter",{"kind":31,"name":753,"path":754},"Vladimir","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fvladimir",{"slug":756,"name":757,"path":758,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":715,"excerpts":759,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":765,"categories":767,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":768,"relations":769},"answer-from-lunka-gift","Answer from Lunka: Gift","\u002Fitems\u002Fanswer-from-lunka-gift",[760,763],{"title":761,"text":762},"Answer from Lunka about Her Gift","Coen! You’re alive! I had a dream about you last night, it was so awful… Brencis, he cut your head off and... I don’t want to talk about it. Mirto said he wouldn’t do that anyway; he’d eat you like the others. I’m so glad he didn’t! We miss you so much… I…",{"title":761,"text":764},"I don’t want anything. I just want to go home with you… I’m so scared.",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":766},"Answer from Lunka: Gift inventory icon",[6],[],[770,771,772],{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":706,"path":707},{"kind":31,"name":709,"path":710},{"slug":774,"name":775,"path":776,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":777,"excerpts":778,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":784,"categories":786,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":787,"relations":788},"answer-from-lunka-rescue","Answer from Lunka: Rescue","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#answer-from-lunka-rescue","Written down and delivered by sanzhani. Lunka promises to tell Pieter, Yanna and Mirto that Coen is alive and working to free them. The reply connects his message with the family’s ongoing captivity.",[779,782],{"title":780,"text":781},"Answer from Lunka","Coen! You’re alive! I had a dream about you last night, it was so awful… Brencis, he cut your head off and... I don’t want to talk about it. Mirto said he wouldn’t do that anyway; he’d eat you like the others. I’m so glad he didn’t! We miss you so much… I’ll…",{"title":780,"text":783},"I’ll tell Dad, and Yanna, and Mirto that you’re alive and fighting to free us. They’re so scared, even Dad. He tries to pretend he’s not, but he does this thing with his mouth, you know, when it twitches. I want to play with you again... Or even go fishing.…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":785},"Answer from Lunka: Rescue inventory icon",[6],[],[789,792,793,794,795],{"kind":31,"name":790,"path":791},"Family rescue and endings","\u002Fguides\u002Fendings",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":706,"path":707},{"kind":31,"name":709,"path":710},{"kind":31,"name":796,"path":797},"Yanna","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fyanna",{"slug":799,"name":800,"path":801,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":802,"excerpts":803,"rarity":183,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":806,"categories":809,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":810,"relations":811},"appeal","Appeal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#appeal","The writing is shaky, but the words are firm. Dawid Breslauer asks the finder to recover the statues of St. Tyna and St. Mihai and restore their shrines. Last Request gives the earlier lead to his study beside the tower in Neustadt; these two messages explain the Hidden & Safe shrine trail.",[804],{"title":800,"text":805},"To whoever finds this letter, If you're one of Brencis's men: a thousand curses upon you and your kin. May you suffer for your sins for all of eternity. If you oppose the vrakhiri rule: take all you find here. Continue my work. Find the holy statues I've…",{"src":807,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":808},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBR2.webp","Appeal inventory icon",[6],[],[812,815],{"kind":31,"name":813,"path":814},"Last Request","\u002Fitems\u002Flast-request",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":817,"name":818,"path":481,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":819,"excerpts":820,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":823,"sellValue":824,"icon":825,"categories":828,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":829,"relations":830},"arimaspians-and-their-secrets","Arimaspians and their Secrets","Looks like it's about to fall apart. The writer interprets the Arimaspians’ single eye as undivided perception and their riches as wisdom. Their struggle against the Dragon and its tooth-born descendants ends in their own corruption and dispersal. Cadmus and the Dragon provides the related account of warriors born from teeth.",[821],{"title":818,"text":822},"Those who study Arimaspians know the true meaning of frustration. The writers who mention them – and there are few – seem to speak in riddles, and ones that were distorted and mistranslated. Let me shed some light, then, on what has become a maze of…",57,8,{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":827},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_RealHistoricalBooksFragments.webp","Arimaspians and their Secrets inventory icon",[6],[],[831,833],{"kind":31,"name":832,"path":381},"The Dragon’s descendants",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":835,"name":836,"path":837,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":838,"excerpts":839,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":842,"sellValue":201,"icon":843,"categories":845,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":846,"relations":847},"armans-letter-to-skender","Arman's Letter to Skender","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#armans-letter-to-skender","From the knyaz's personal archive. Arman sends Skender a sword he identifies as Durandal, basing that identification on a vassal’s claimed angelic dream. The letter lists supposed relics in its hilt and links the gift to Roland and Charlemagne; The Song of Roland supplies the accompanying heroic tradition.",[840],{"title":836,"text":841},"Dear Skender, In recognition of your immeasurable generosity towards me, and of the bond we share, I am sending you a gift of extraordinary value. It may not look like it at first glance, but it is, in fact, the famous Durandal! Yes, Durandal – the sword…",44,{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":844},"Arman's Letter to Skender inventory icon",[6],[],[848,851,852],{"kind":31,"name":849,"path":850},"Roland’s story","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-song-of-roland",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":854,"name":855,"path":856,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":857,"excerpts":858,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":862,"sellValue":273,"icon":863,"categories":865,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":866,"relations":867},"armayas-orders","Armaya's Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Farmayas-orders","Seems to be connected to Xanthe's activities.",[859],{"title":860,"text":861},"Orders from Armaya","Secure any and all items you find. Should you find any wall paintings representing the moon, darkness, eclipses – inform me immediately and suspend further activity until I've arrived. Armaya",18,{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":864},"Armaya's Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[868],{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":870,"name":871,"path":872,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":873,"excerpts":874,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":200,"sellValue":22,"icon":877,"categories":880,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":881,"relations":882},"around-animals","Around Animals","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#around-animals","Made with the cheapest vellum. This collection records beliefs about five animals: toads as familiars, dogs sensing spirits, dangerous owl gazes, hares as disguised witches and protective roosters. The Faithful Hound is a longer dog story within the same body of local folklore.",[875],{"title":871,"text":876},"Toads: witches often pick them as their familiars. If you see one near your door – kill it at once. It might bring bad luck or illness. Dogs: some dogs can’t sleep at night, bothered by ghosts or demons. If you hear one howling after nightfall, don’t look at…",{"src":878,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":879},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBBL4.webp","Around Animals inventory icon",[6],[],[883,886],{"kind":31,"name":884,"path":885},"A dog’s place in local folklore","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-faithful-hound",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":888,"name":889,"path":890,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":891,"excerpts":892,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":124,"sellValue":66,"icon":896,"categories":898,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":899,"relations":900},"ascars-notebook","Ascar's Notebook","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#ascars-notebook","Not meant to be shared. Ascar’s will names Rustem as the caretaker of his bees and Zulfia as the new keeper of Hatchet. It also excludes the heirs he no longer recognises, so the named people and bequests are the useful details when following the Tantari story.",[893],{"title":894,"text":895},"Last Will","I, Ascar of Tantari, a beekeeper, ordain this document, which is written by my own hand, to be my last will. All my debts, of which there are few, are to be paid in full upon my passing. No longer having any progeny I recognise, it is my desire that all the…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":897},"Ascar's Notebook inventory icon",[6],[],[901],{"kind":31,"name":902,"path":903},"People and merchants","\u002Fcharacters",{"slug":905,"name":906,"path":907,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":908,"excerpts":909,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":107,"icon":913,"categories":915,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":916,"relations":917},"bakirs-call","Bakir's Call","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#bakirs-call","A missive written by Boyar Bakir. Bakir announces a hunt for an enormous wolf in the forests near Oghasti on the next full moon. He invites help with tracking and ambushing the beast, but reserves the kill for himself. His offer of a chosen reward is part of this invitation to prospective hunters.",[910],{"title":911,"text":912},"A Call to Hunt","To those seeking a hunter's glory: A monster has been spotted in the forests near Oghasti – a wolf much larger than most, with jaws able to snap a cow in two. These parts of the valley are under my protection – no wild animal shall harry my subjects! All…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":914},"Bakir's Call inventory icon",[6],[],[918,921],{"kind":31,"name":919,"path":920},"Letter Found in a Wolf Cave","\u002Fitems\u002Fletter-found-in-a-wolf-cave",{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":923,"name":924,"path":925,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":926,"excerpts":927,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":107,"icon":932,"categories":935,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":936,"relations":937},"bakirs-orders","Bakir's Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#bakirs-orders","The Mad Khan's instructions regarding local bandits. Bakir wants the bandits captured alive and brought to him. The promised reward is addressed to his soldiers, while the Bandits’ Report shows another group handing captured manumits to soldiers. Together, the documents show how prisoners pass between outlaw bands and the boyars’ forces.",[928],{"title":929,"text":930},"Wanted: Bandits","Bandits are funny men! They think they can live outside our laws – spill good blood they have no claim over! – and get away with it. Very funny indeed! I'd like to laugh together with them – show them some hilarious tricks with pincers and pokers I've…",21,{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":934},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_REPORT_ORDERS.webp","Bakir's Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[938,941],{"kind":31,"name":939,"path":940},"Bandits’ Report","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#bandits-report",{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":943,"name":944,"path":945,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":946,"excerpts":947,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":438,"sellValue":107,"icon":950,"categories":952,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":953,"relations":954},"bandits-last-will","Bandit's Last Will","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#bandits-last-will","A list of a wary bandit's last wishes. The bandit leaves his share of a mountain stash to Elena and names two enemies: soldiers and Constantin's gang. Letter from a Loved One describes the same gang rivalry from the side of one of Constantin's wounded men.",[948],{"title":944,"text":949},"Should I die: – give Elena my share from the mountain stash – tell the priest about how we were stealing from Laslea – and pay him for the indulgence (spare no coin on that!) – if I'm killed by soldiers, kill two of them as retribution – ...and if by…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":951},"Bandit's Last Will inventory icon",[6],[],[955],{"kind":31,"name":956,"path":957},"Letter from a Loved One","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-from-a-loved-one",{"slug":959,"name":960,"path":940,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":961,"excerpts":962,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":167,"icon":965,"categories":967,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":968,"relations":969},"bandits-report","Bandit's Report","An ineptly written summary of recent events. The gang’s monthly account records captured manumits being handed to soldiers and a third captive dying before the planned sale. It also lists a stolen peddler’s cart. These entries connect the gang’s robberies with its trade in prisoners.",[963],{"title":960,"text":964},"Lizt of what happent (to be handid to the bos when munth ends) - two travlers goin to Svartrau - didn't have no coin, but we took there boots - two manumits wantin us to join - we tied em up and gave them to soldiers (told them we was villagers) - one pedlar…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":966},"Bandit's Report inventory icon",[6],[],[970,972],{"kind":31,"name":971,"path":925},"Bakir’s capture order",{"kind":31,"name":973,"path":974},"Constantin’s instructions","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#constantins-orders",{"slug":976,"name":977,"path":978,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":979,"excerpts":980,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":107,"icon":983,"categories":985,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":986,"relations":987},"bandits-warning","Bandit's Warning","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#bandits-warning","Describes bandits's ambush spots and some mysterious creatures. Constantin’s next target is a caravan from Maragir, but he warns his men about creatures capable of setting ambushes in the nearby woods. The marked scouting spots belong to the gang’s plan. Read this with his night-watch orders to connect the ambush operation with the gang’s growing security problems.",[981],{"title":977,"text":982},"Your next target is a caravan coming from Maragir. I've marked the best potential ambush spots on your map. Send your men to scout them out and pick what works best for your crew. But be fucking careful in this part of the woods. Ulger said there are some…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":984},"Bandit's Warning inventory icon",[6],[],[988,990],{"kind":31,"name":989,"path":974},"Constantin’s Orders",{"kind":31,"name":991,"path":992},"Maragir Wealds","\u002Flocations\u002Fmaragir-wealds",{"slug":994,"name":995,"path":996,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":997,"excerpts":998,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":1001,"sellValue":66,"icon":1002,"categories":1005,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1006,"relations":1007},"beware-of-greifberg-castle","Beware of Greifberg Castle!","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#beware-of-greifberg-castle","Illegal samizdat. The notice warns Svartrau residents against accepting service at Greifberg, depicting the castle as Brencis’s feeding ground. Its purpose is to discourage recruitment. Compare The Charter of Rights for the regime’s public promises about its treatment of human subjects.",[999],{"title":995,"text":1000},"People of Svartrau! Beware! The vrakhiri may try to recruit you to become servants at Greifberg Castle. You must never agree! Your lives depend on it! Brencis has turned the castle into his lair – a horrible place where human remains lie scattered in the…",47,{"src":1003,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1004},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBY16.webp","Beware of Greifberg Castle! inventory icon",[6],[],[1008,1011,1012],{"kind":31,"name":1009,"path":1010},"Brencis’s public promises","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-charter-of-rights",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":1013,"path":1014},"Greifberg Castle","\u002Flocations\u002Fgreifberg-castle",{"slug":1016,"name":1017,"path":1018,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1019,"excerpts":1020,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":1024,"sellValue":252,"icon":1025,"categories":1028,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1029,"relations":1030},"beware-the-circling-steps","Beware the Circling Steps","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#beware-the-circling-steps","Copied in a frenzied hand. The warning describes sooty, crooked footprints circling a settlement more closely each night, followed by attacks on children and their defenders. Eat Thy Neighbours and The Cursed Mine belong to the related group of tales about hungry beings emerging from darkness.",[1021],{"title":1017,"text":1022},"If you see sooty footprints circling the fields, pack what you can and flee, especially if you have children. They’re hungry and many. They come from the dark and see when we’re blind. They say what they want – and what they want is flesh. Young and tender.…",0.15,46,{"src":1026,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1027},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBR16.webp","Beware the Circling Steps inventory icon",[6],[],[1031,1034],{"kind":31,"name":1032,"path":1033},"Another tale of the hungry creatures","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#eat-thy-neighbours",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":1036,"name":1037,"path":75,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1038,"excerpts":1039,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":167,"icon":1042,"categories":1044,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1045,"relations":1046},"beware-the-manumits","Beware the Manumits","Orders to Brencis's soldiers. The order forbids all contact with manumits because their offers of recruitment and rewards could sway soldiers. Crake’s A Fair Warning demonstrates that appeal from the rebels’ side, offering defection before threatening those who keep fighting.",[1040],{"title":1037,"text":1041},"Soldiers! Any contacts with the manumits are strictly forbidden! Those bastards know how to mess with your heads. They will offer you to join them. They will promise you rewards, both earthly and eternal. But it is all a lie. And should you fall for it -…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1043},"Beware the Manumits inventory icon",[6],[],[1047,1049],{"kind":31,"name":1048,"path":57},"The rebels’ recruitment message",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":1051,"name":1052,"path":1053,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1054,"excerpts":1055,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1058,"sellValue":66,"icon":1059,"categories":1062,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1063,"relations":1064},"beware-vrakhiri-blood","Beware Vrakhiri Blood","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#beware-vrakhiri-blood","Anonymous. Written in cheap, smearing ink. The writer blames the valley's nightmares and waking visions on drinking vrakhiri blood at mass. Pair this sermon with Farewell Letter to compare public opposition to the ritual with Allia's personal refusal.",[1056],{"title":1052,"text":1057},"Good people of Vale Sangora, beware the vrakhiri blood. It may heal our bodies, yes, but at the same time it befouls our souls. Horrible nightmares we dream at night, unsettling visions which descend on us in broad daylight – they’re a direct consequence of…",39,{"src":1060,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1061},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBR4.webp","Beware Vrakhiri Blood inventory icon",[6],[],[1065],{"kind":31,"name":1066,"path":1067},"Farewell Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#farewell-letter",{"slug":1069,"name":1070,"path":561,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1071,"excerpts":1072,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":1075,"sellValue":66,"icon":1076,"categories":1079,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1080,"relations":1081},"beyond-the-veil","Beyond the Veil","Read at your own risk. The essay connects Plato’s cave, maya and Hildegard’s imagery to the claim that human senses show only a simplified reality. Its conclusion makes deeper knowledge terrifying rather than comforting. The Covenant’s Arrogance chapter turns a similar fear of ultimate truth into a demand for obedience.",[1073],{"title":1070,"text":1074},"What we see is not what there is. Our minds cannot comprehend the universe in its terrifying complexity and enormity; if they did, we would all burst in flames, just like Semele did when Zeus revealed his true form to her. The things we see, touch, smell are…",35,{"src":1077,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1078},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBB13.webp","Beyond the Veil inventory icon",[6],[],[1082,1085],{"kind":31,"name":1083,"path":1084},"The Covenant’s forbidden knowledge","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#blood-covenant-on-the-sin-of-arrogance",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":1087,"name":1088,"path":1084,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1089,"excerpts":1090,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":65,"sellValue":66,"icon":1093,"categories":1096,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1097,"relations":1098},"blood-covenant-on-the-sin-of-arrogance","Blood Covenant: On the Sin of Arrogance","Copy of one of Father Florin's sermons. This chapter defines attempts to comprehend ultimate reality as arrogance, then presents obedience to the knyaz as protection from that reality. Start here for the Covenant’s religious argument; Pride applies the same demand for submission to human blood tribute.",[1091],{"title":1088,"text":1092},"What lies beyond, we do not know and we shall never know. The truth, in its enormity and complexity, is too much for the human mind to comprehend, and to think otherwise is to sin of arrogance. This is why we kneel, this is why we bow: to turn our eyes away…",{"src":1094,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1095},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBBL15.webp","Blood Covenant: On the Sin of Arrogance inventory icon",[6],[],[1099,1101,1102],{"kind":31,"name":1100,"path":299},"Next theme: Pride and blood tribute",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":302,"path":303},{"slug":1104,"name":1105,"path":261,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1106,"excerpts":1107,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":1110,"sellValue":48,"icon":1111,"categories":1114,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1115,"relations":1116},"blood-covenant-on-the-sin-of-envy","Blood Covenant: On the Sin of Envy","Copy of one of Father Florin's sermons. The Covenant says creating a vrakhir costs the maker part of their power. It condemns attempts to transform by piercing one’s own heart with a vrakhiri tooth, describing the result as a mindless murohni. A Price Not to Pay tells a related fang-and-heart horror story.",[1108],{"title":1105,"text":1109},"It is only natural to envy our masters, the vrakhiri. They live forever, their strength equals that of Goliath's and their cunning matches that of David's. Many dream of joining our knyaz under the moon. But remember, few will ever be considered for this…",53,{"src":1112,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1113},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBG2.webp","Blood Covenant: On the Sin of Envy inventory icon",[6],[],[1117,1119,1120],{"kind":31,"name":1118,"path":247},"The fang cure in folklore",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":302,"path":303},{"slug":1122,"name":1123,"path":299,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1124,"excerpts":1125,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":232,"buyValue":1128,"sellValue":22,"icon":1129,"categories":1132,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1133,"relations":1134},"blood-covenant-on-the-sin-of-pride","Blood Covenant: On the Sin of Pride","Copy of one of Father Florin's sermons. The chapter recasts resistance to being bled as pride and uses the existence of vrakhiri as proof of divine approval. Wrath extends that reasoning from personal submission to the punishment of anyone opposing Brencis’s government.",[1126],{"title":1123,"text":1127},"We think ourselves too good to be bled. \"We are not animals\", we say. \"We were made in God's image\", we protest. And by speaking thusly, we are guilty of a most grevious sin: pride. That vrakhiri exist is a fact. That the world was created by the Lord is a…",40,{"src":1130,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1131},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBBL16.webp","Blood Covenant: On the Sin of Pride inventory icon",[6],[],[1135,1138,1139],{"kind":31,"name":1136,"path":1137},"Next theme: Wrath and resistance","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#blood-covenant-on-the-sin-of-wrath",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":302,"path":303},{"slug":1141,"name":1142,"path":1137,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1143,"excerpts":1144,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":200,"sellValue":201,"icon":1147,"categories":1149,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1150,"relations":1151},"blood-covenant-on-the-sin-of-wrath","Blood Covenant: On the Sin of Wrath","Copy of one of Father Florin's sermons. Wrath equates opposition to Brencis with rebellion against God and threatens torture, draining and damnation. Read it after Pride to follow the Covenant’s progression from accepting blood tribute to condemning organised resistance.",[1145],{"title":1142,"text":1146},"The Lord tests His faithful, just as a smith strikes a newly forged blade to see if it rings true – or cracks. For only by testing us He shall know who is worthy of salvation, and who shall be destined for eternal suffering. We are to withstand these tests…",{"src":1130,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1148},"Blood Covenant: On the Sin of Wrath inventory icon",[6],[],[1152,1154,1155],{"kind":31,"name":1153,"path":299},"The argument for blood tribute",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":302,"path":303},{"slug":1157,"name":1158,"path":1159,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1160,"excerpts":1161,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":1058,"sellValue":252,"icon":1164,"categories":1167,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1168,"relations":1169},"blood-feeders","Blood Feeders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#blood-feeders","A short read. The tale describes people gradually losing their independence after creatures repeatedly feed them blood at night. They appear ordinary until called upon, when they become obedient servants. Hollow Hearts provides a separate account of what the local vampire stories say is lost through transformation.",[1162],{"title":1158,"text":1163},"There are men out there cursed by beasts of darkness. Their tongues red with blood, and their minds addled by evil. They were normal once, but night after night, creatures born of shadows slithered into their homes and dripped their blood into the men's…",{"src":1165,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1166},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBR11.webp","Blood Feeders inventory icon",[6],[],[1170,1173],{"kind":31,"name":1171,"path":1172},"Another account of transformation","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#hollow-hearts",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":1175,"name":1176,"path":1177,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1178,"excerpts":1179,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":273,"icon":1183,"categories":1185,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1186,"relations":1187},"blood-transport-orders","Blood Transport Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#blood-transport-orders","Orders concerning a blood shipment. The destination is Xanthe’s keep, and the shipment is her monthly blood levy. The instructions to prevent leaks and sunlight exposure explain how her supply is transported. Ambrus’s separate storage orders describe the next kind of facility used in the valley’s blood network.",[1180],{"title":1181,"text":1182},"Orders: Levy","This shipment of blood is to be delivered to Boyaress Xanthe's keep, as her monthly levy. Handle with care. Check for leaks. Do not leave out in the sun.",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1184},"Blood Transport Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[1188,1191],{"kind":31,"name":1189,"path":1190},"Ambrus’s blood-storage orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#orders-from-ambrus",{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":1193,"name":1194,"path":1195,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1196,"excerpts":1197,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":331,"sellValue":252,"icon":1200,"categories":1202,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1203,"relations":1204},"blood-soaked-journal","Blood-Soaked Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#blood-soaked-journal","The blood may be the author's. The explorers say they found Mihai’s lost cave shrine, took something and fled after hearing movement. Their camp’s view of burning Laslea places the expedition alongside the village disaster. Read Florin’s Orders for why they entered the cave.",[1198],{"title":1194,"text":1199},"(...) Father Florin was right. We found a cave, and in it – the lost shrine of Saint Mihai. Night had already fallen when we got inside. What we found there – no idea what it is, but it might be of use to the Father's plan. Didn’t have much time to look…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1201},"Blood-Soaked Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[1205,1208,1209],{"kind":31,"name":1206,"path":1207},"Florin’s original orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#florins-orders",{"kind":31,"name":302,"path":303},{"kind":31,"name":1210,"path":1211},"Mihai","\u002Fbosses\u002Fmihai",{"slug":1213,"name":1214,"path":1215,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1216,"excerpts":1217,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":273,"icon":1221,"categories":1223,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1224,"relations":1225},"blood-splattered-note","Blood-Splattered Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#blood-splattered-note","A bloodied note found on a corpse. The explorer finds a painting of an armoured figure, then loses Ilias and Buna deeper in the ruins. Bloodied Note preserves the same journal passage under another title; Father Florin’s Notes explains why the armour mattered to the expedition.",[1218],{"title":1219,"text":1220},"Bloodied Note","I Made further progress into the ruins – nothing of note, just cobwebs and dust. Found a pagan painting – a man in rich armour. A hero? Need to go deeper. II Ilias dead – fell into chasm. Stupid. III Buna wounded. Attacked by… something. I killed it. Burnt…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1222},"Blood-Splattered Note inventory icon",[6],[],[1226],{"kind":31,"name":1227,"path":1228},"Florin’s search for ancient armour","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#father-florins-notes",{"slug":1230,"name":1219,"path":1231,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1232,"excerpts":1233,"rarity":18,"material":18,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":1235,"categories":1237,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1238,"relations":1239},"bloodied-note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#bloodied-note","A blood-spattered note with some scribbles. This is the same expedition account preserved as Blood-Splattered Note: an armoured figure in a painting, Ilias’s fall and Buna’s death. Read it with Florin’s Notes to connect the failed exploration with the ancient-armour search.",[1234],{"title":1219,"text":1220},{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1236},"Bloodied Note inventory icon",[6],[],[1240],{"kind":31,"name":1241,"path":1215},"The matching journal passage",{"slug":1243,"name":1244,"path":1245,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1246,"excerpts":1247,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":167,"icon":1251,"categories":1253,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1254,"relations":1255},"bloody-letter","Bloody Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#bloody-letter","Not everyone will survive. Cal's account records the collapse of a group fleeing Maragir: Dieter stops during a pursuit, then Cal attacks Curt after returning to the hideout. The letter is addressed to the already-dead Josefa.",[1248],{"title":1249,"text":1250},"A Bloody Letter","Dear Josefa, I thought running away from Maragir was a challenge, but now I see that surviving out here is the real nightmare. Wild animals, cold nights, not knowing what will happen next – it really does a number on one’s mind. Dieter broke yesterday. We…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1252},"Bloody Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[1256],{"kind":31,"name":1257,"path":1258},"Weathered Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#weathered-note",{"slug":1260,"name":1261,"path":1262,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1263,"excerpts":1264,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":167,"icon":1268,"categories":1270,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1271,"relations":1272},"bohemian-letter","Bohemian Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#bohemian-letter","An old letter that found its way to Vale Sangora. Lahut is surprised that his wandering cousin has become a tavern owner in the Carpathians and plans to leave Plzen to visit. The letter supplies the family's view of the new business.",[1265],{"title":1266,"text":1267},"A Letter from Bohemia","Cousin, You don’t know how glad I was to have received your letter. Me and the rest of the clan were worried sick – that Vale Sangora sounded like some dangerous, strange place. But if the Carpathians are even half as beautiful as you describe them, I bet…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1269},"Bohemian Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[1273],{"kind":31,"name":1274,"path":1275},"Traveller's Diary","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#travellers-diary",{"slug":1277,"name":1278,"path":1279,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1280,"excerpts":1281,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":1128,"sellValue":22,"icon":1284,"categories":1287,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1288,"relations":1289},"book-of-punishments","Book of Punishments","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#book-of-punishments","Lists nuns's transgressions – and the punishments they received. This register places Anca and Leonica among the convent’s disciplined sisters. Read it alongside the Prioress’s Journal to separate the convent’s ordinary punishments from the later outbreak and collapse.",[1282],{"title":1278,"text":1283},"Sister Ines – guilty of gossiping and sloth, assigned to cleaning latrines Sister Marianna – guilty of gluttony, ten hours of prayer in the chapel Sister Anca – guilty of arrogance, three shifts in the kitchen Sister Bianca – guilty of indulging in carnal…",{"src":1285,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1286},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBW3.webp","Book of Punishments inventory icon",[6],[],[1290,1293],{"kind":31,"name":1291,"path":1292},"Prioress’s Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#prioresss-journal",{"kind":31,"name":1294,"path":1295},"Anca","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fanca",{"slug":1297,"name":1298,"path":1299,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1300,"excerpts":1301,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":1305,"sellValue":167,"icon":1306,"categories":1308,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1309,"relations":1310},"bounty-announcement","Bounty Announcement","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#bounty-announcement","Written by boyar Bakir himself. Bakir offers money for manumit heads, giving his rebel hunters a direct incentive to pursue the movement. The Confession and Promising Lead show two forms of information available to those hunters: a named meeting place and a local informant’s suggestion to follow Fedir.",[1302],{"title":1303,"text":1304},"Time to Hunt!","My dearest vermin, Do you like games? Do you like gold? If so, I have quite the offer for you. Bring me the head of a manumit – and I shall reward your with a deliciously hefty, clinking pouch. Spare no efforts in tracking down those ne'er-do-wells! Make me…",17,{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1307},"Bounty Announcement inventory icon",[6],[],[1311,1314,1317],{"kind":31,"name":1312,"path":1313},"Confession","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#confession",{"kind":31,"name":1315,"path":1316},"Promising Lead","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#promising-lead",{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":1319,"name":1320,"path":1321,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1322,"excerpts":1323,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":167,"icon":1326,"categories":1328,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1329,"relations":1330},"bounty-hunters-contract","Bounty Hunter's Contract","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#bounty-hunters-contract","Concerns taking care of some brazen kobolds. The contract orders a quiet attack on a kobold colony after its demands for more carrion and murders of travellers. Merchant's Missive offers a contrasting encounter with goatmen as customers.",[1324],{"title":1320,"text":1325},"R, You will complete this task and you will do it quietly. A bunch of good-for-nothing kobold rats think they can make demands of the boyar, asking for more carrion. They \"sent us a message\" by murdering travellers passing through his fiefdom. Now we’re…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1327},"Bounty Hunter's Contract inventory icon",[6],[],[1331],{"kind":31,"name":1332,"path":1333},"Merchant's Missive","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#merchants-missive",{"slug":1335,"name":1336,"path":1337,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":1338,"excerpts":1339,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":1343,"sellValue":66,"icon":1344,"categories":1347,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1348,"relations":1349},"boyar-bakirs-hunt","Boyar Bakir's Hunt","\u002Fitems\u002Fboyar-bakirs-hunt","Communication between Brencis's soldiers.",[1340],{"title":1341,"text":1342},"Boyar Bakir’s Hunt","Hartmar, There’s an opportunity to make some money if you’re willing to move your arse and get your hands dirty. Boyar Bakir is gathering a group of hunters to join him in tracking down and killing some mighty beast that has been stalking the forests near…",30,{"src":1345,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1346},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBG12.webp","Boyar Bakir's Hunt inventory icon",[6],[],[1350,1351],{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":1353,"name":1354,"path":1355,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1356,"excerpts":1357,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":1360,"sellValue":252,"icon":1361,"categories":1364,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1365,"relations":1366},"brencis-and-the-bible","Brencis and the Bible","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#brencis-and-the-bible","Illegal samizdat. The joke compares Brencis with the serpent’s deceptive gifts and the false prophet’s miracles. Its soldier fails to recognise the comparison, allowing the imprisoned manumit to escape punishment. A Vicar’s Inquiry poses a more direct biblical objection to the regime’s teachings.",[1358],{"title":1354,"text":1359},"Once a soldier from Svartrau caught a manumit, put him in a cell and said: \"Why the hell do you want to kill Knyaz Brencis?! He's a holy man! The priests say he was mentioned in the Bible!\" And the manumit answered: \"He was. Twice, in fact – at the beginning…",31,{"src":1362,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1363},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBY15.webp","Brencis and the Bible inventory icon",[6],[],[1367,1369],{"kind":31,"name":1368,"path":285},"A direct challenge to blood doctrine",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":1371,"name":1372,"path":1373,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1374,"excerpts":1375,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1378,"sellValue":824,"icon":1379,"categories":1382,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1383,"relations":1384},"brencis-the-deceiver","Brencis the Deceiver","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#brencis-the-deceiver","Illegal samizdat. The leaflet accuses Brencis of breaking promises about imprisonment, boyar exploitation and children’s blood. The Charter of Rights is the useful companion text: it records the official protections against which the rebel accusations can be read.",[1376],{"title":1372,"text":1377},"Cursed be Brencis the Deceiver! He said no innocent person shall be put in prison! And yet hundreds have! He swore he wouldn't let the boyars exploit us! And look at them, leeching off of us at every step! He promised – no drinking the blood of our children!…",59,{"src":1380,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1381},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBY10.webp","Brencis the Deceiver inventory icon",[6],[],[1385,1387],{"kind":31,"name":1386,"path":1010},"The official Charter of Rights",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":1389,"name":1390,"path":1391,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1392,"excerpts":1393,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":862,"sellValue":167,"icon":1396,"categories":1398,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1399,"relations":1400},"brenciss-orders","Brencis's Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#brenciss-orders","Orders from Brencis concerning the security of his ritual site. Brencis orders barricades around newly exposed underground paths, a gargoyle in the ritual chamber and a continuous blood supply. The document connects the excavation, awakened undead and defended ritual site.",[1394],{"title":1390,"text":1395},"Due to the progressing excavations, the site of the ritual has been rendered vulnerable and must now be secured. The undead in the ruins awakened, drawn by the power. There is no telling how many more graves lie buried under this city. Raise barricades and…",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1397},"Brencis's Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[1401,1403],{"kind":31,"name":1402,"path":791},"Castle entry and endings",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":1405,"name":1406,"path":1407,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1408,"excerpts":1409,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":1128,"sellValue":201,"icon":1412,"categories":1415,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1416,"relations":1417},"brenciss-orders-false-idols","Brencis's Orders – False Idols","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#brenciss-orders-false-idols","Orders concerning roadside shrines and other symbols of old faiths and beliefs. This decree gives the religious reason for destroying the old shrines: Brencis presents the Blood Covenant as the only permitted faith. The companion decrees add the practical orders to dismantle shrines, arrest worshippers and reward those who bring proof of destruction.",[1410],{"title":1406,"text":1411},"The Blood Covenant is the only true faith. Therefore all old shrines and false idols shall be burnt, disassembled, or destroyed in any other way that assures they shall never be used again. Knyaz Brencis of Vale Sangora",{"src":1413,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1414},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBN14.webp","Brencis's Orders – False Idols inventory icon",[6],[],[1418,1421,1424],{"kind":31,"name":1419,"path":1420},"Shrine demolition order","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#brenciss-orders-old-shrines-must-be-destroyed",{"kind":31,"name":1422,"path":1423},"Shrine hearts and restoration","\u002Fitems\u002Fquest-items",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":1426,"name":1427,"path":1420,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1428,"excerpts":1429,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":1432,"sellValue":252,"icon":1433,"categories":1436,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1437,"relations":1438},"brenciss-orders-old-shrines-must-be-destroyed","Brencis's Orders – Old Shrines Must Be Destroyed","Orders concerning roadside shrines and other symbols of old faiths and beliefs. Shrines dedicated to the old faith are to be destroyed, with an exception for those rededicated to the Blood Covenant. The decree names Greifberg Castle’s dungeon as the destination for captured worshippers. New Orders shows the same policy being passed down to ordinary soldiers.",[1430],{"title":1427,"text":1431},"I hereby command all roadside shrines and other places of worship in Vale Sangora to be destroyed (unless they have been renamed and are now devoted to the Blood Covenant). All those who use such shrines to practise their false faith must be caught and…",34,{"src":1434,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1435},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBN16.webp","Brencis's Orders – Old Shrines Must Be Destroyed inventory icon",[6],[],[1439,1442],{"kind":31,"name":1440,"path":1441},"New Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#new-orders",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":1444,"name":1445,"path":1446,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1447,"excerpts":1448,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":232,"buyValue":233,"sellValue":48,"icon":1451,"categories":1454,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1455,"relations":1456},"brenciss-orders-root-out-old-superstition","Brencis's Orders – Root Out Old Superstition","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#brenciss-orders-root-out-old-superstition","Orders concerning roadside shrines and other symbols of old faiths and beliefs. Brencis offers rewards for destroying old religious symbols and producing proof. Read this beside the other shrine decrees to separate the promised incentive from the demolition and arrest orders. The shrine-heart entries explain the player’s separate restoration use for those objects.",[1449],{"title":1445,"text":1450},"Those who help spread the true faith have their part in rebuilding Vale Sangora and bringing long-lasting peace. Therefore, whoever roots out any shrine, idol, or other symbols of old faiths and beliefs shall be rewarded – provided they are able to present a…",{"src":1452,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1453},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBN15.webp","Brencis's Orders – Root Out Old Superstition inventory icon",[6],[],[1457,1459,1461],{"kind":31,"name":1458,"path":1407},"False Idols decree",{"kind":31,"name":1460,"path":1423},"Shrine hearts",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":1463,"name":1464,"path":1465,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1466,"excerpts":1467,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":1470,"sellValue":107,"icon":1471,"categories":1473,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1474,"relations":1475},"bridge-watch-report","Bridge Watch Report","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#bridge-watch-report","Written by a manumit who met a bad end. The watchers at Prince’s Bridge report a pattern in Ambrus-guarded transports, especially at night. Read it alongside Ambrus’s blood-storage order for the separate accounts of guarded movement and storage in his supply network.",[1468],{"title":1464,"text":1469},"We are keeping tabs on the Prince’s Bridge, as instructed. Thus far, most passing folk bear goods for Svartrau – nothing out of the ordinary, except for some transports guarded by Ambrus’s dogs. We began to notice a pattern, especially at night – a detailed…",20,{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1472},"Bridge Watch Report inventory icon",[6],[],[1476,1478,1480],{"kind":31,"name":1477,"path":1190},"Blood-storage duties",{"kind":31,"name":1479,"path":1177},"Blood shipment destination",{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":1482,"name":1483,"path":1484,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1485,"excerpts":1486,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":273,"icon":1489,"categories":1491,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1492,"relations":1493},"bring-results","Bring Results","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#bring-results","Orders to Brencis's soldiers. The command ties soldiers’ pay to confiscating silver and capturing manumits, ordering patrols to return with results. Rewards for Your Duty adds the separate reward policy, while the wider military notices show how the campaign is enforced.",[1487],{"title":1483,"text":1488},"Soldiers! There's still a shit ton of silver to confiscate and a bunch of manumits to capture! So go on and prove yourselves! No patrol comes back to the barracks empty-handed! You want your pay - earn it!",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1490},"Bring Results inventory icon",[6],[],[1494,1497],{"kind":31,"name":1495,"path":1496},"Rewards for arrests and service","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#rewards-for-your-duty",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":1499,"name":1500,"path":1501,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1502,"excerpts":1503,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":273,"icon":1506,"categories":1508,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1509,"relations":1510},"business-notice","Business Notice","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#business-notice","A struggling herbalist's letter to his supplier. Umlar needs Ribin's herbs because the shop is running out of ointments while vrakhiri blood undercuts the trade. Letter from St. Tyna's gives another example of the valley's older remedies and healers.",[1504],{"title":1500,"text":1505},"Ribin, I need those damned herbs by the end of the week at the absolute latest, I mean it. I’m out of ointments and soon I’ll be out of my reputation, too. People keep coming in just to go away empty-handed. This is not how we make this business last. It's…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1507},"Business Notice inventory icon",[6],[],[1511],{"kind":31,"name":1512,"path":1513},"Letter from St. Tyna's","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-from-st-tynas",{"slug":1515,"name":1516,"path":381,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1517,"excerpts":1518,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":65,"sellValue":824,"icon":1521,"categories":1524,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1525,"relations":1526},"cadmus-and-the-dragon","Cadmus and the Dragon","An old myth. Cadmus kills a dragon guarding a wisdom-giving spring, then follows Athena’s command to sow its teeth. The resulting warriors are called Spartoi or Vrachoi. Aeetes and Jason continues the tooth-born-warrior motif with a hero who turns them against one another.",[1519],{"title":1516,"text":1520},"As recounted by Apollodorus in his Bibliotheca, Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, once come across a holy spring, from which he wished to draw water, for it was known that one who drank from it would acquire great wisdom. The spring was guarded by a terrible…",{"src":1522,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1523},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBBL10.webp","Cadmus and the Dragon inventory icon",[6],[],[1527,1529],{"kind":31,"name":1528,"path":367},"Jason’s answer to the warriors",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":1531,"name":1532,"path":1533,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1534,"excerpts":1535,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":167,"icon":1538,"categories":1540,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1541,"relations":1542},"call-to-hunt","Call to Hunt","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#call-to-hunt","Boyar Bakir's unusual call to action. Bakir demands that an unusually clever murohn be captured alive. Compare the Hunter's Journal, where a hunter describes a humanoid creature stalking his camp and changing his own tactics to catch it.",[1536],{"title":1532,"text":1537},"Take heed, Brave Folk of the Valley! A fun little creature prowls my lands. It is a murohn, but not as stupid and mindless as the others. This one has learned to hunt your kind with surprising wit. Therefore, I summon you to the chase! Outwit this pest and…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1539},"Call to Hunt inventory icon",[6],[],[1543,1546],{"kind":31,"name":1544,"path":1545},"Hunter's Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#hunters-journal",{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":1548,"name":662,"path":663,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1549,"excerpts":1550,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":273,"icon":1554,"categories":1556,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1557,"relations":1558},"call-to-revolt","An echo of the past. The scribe's target is Skender Dragosti, whose taxes and seizures have left the valley hungry. The appeal recalls the massacre at Shrike's Crag; Anonymous Diary supplies the witness's account of that event.",[1551],{"title":1552,"text":1553},"An Anonymous Call to Revolt","To the people of Vale Sangora! You do not know me. I am just a scribe, but I shall write the truth, as it is the only weapon I can wield against tyranny. Skender Dragosti is a tyrant. A man who believes that the Divine right to rule ordained to him by God…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1555},"Call to Revolt inventory icon",[6],[],[1559,1560],{"kind":31,"name":649,"path":650},{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":1562,"name":1563,"path":1564,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":1565,"excerpts":1566,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":1570,"categories":1572,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1573,"relations":1574},"campana-loquitur","Campana Loquitur","\u002Fitems\u002Fcampana-loquitur","A must-read for novices at St. Tyna's convent.",[1567],{"title":1568,"text":1569},"Campana Loquitur, vel Introductio pro Novitiis","Just as sunflowers follow the movement of the sun, so novices shall follow the tolling of the bell. Learn the language it speaks, and you shall never be at a loss. May its calls become as familiar to you as your very thoughts. When the bell tolls three…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1571},"Campana Loquitur inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":1576,"name":1577,"path":1578,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":13,"description":1579,"excerpts":1580,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":273,"icon":1583,"categories":1585,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1586,"relations":1587},"caravan-merchants-note","Caravan Merchant's Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#caravan-merchants-note","A versified good-luck charm.",[1581],{"title":1577,"text":1582},"May your road be easy May the rain not fall May you not be queasy May your cartwheels roll This is my spell For my lover dear Finish your job And come back here – Avika",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1584},"Caravan Merchant's Note inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":1589,"name":1590,"path":1591,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1592,"excerpts":1593,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":273,"icon":1596,"categories":1598,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1599,"relations":1600},"caravan-orders","Caravan Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#caravan-orders","Instructions regarding precious yet ethically dubious cargo. The cargo is iron restraints and torture equipment intended for Brencis. Linen and flour sacks are being used to protect the metal from rain, which explains the mixed-looking load. The merchant wants the delivery completed before competing sellers reach the knyaz.",[1594],{"title":1590,"text":1595},"Make sure to cover the iron buckles with enough linen and flour sacks to properly protect them. We can’t risk them being exposed to the rain. Knyaz Brencis has an insatiable appetite for all sort of restraints and torture devices (chains, manacles, rakes –…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1597},"Caravan Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[1601,1602],{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":1603,"path":1177},"Blood transport comparison",{"slug":1605,"name":1606,"path":1607,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1608,"excerpts":1609,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":107,"icon":1612,"categories":1614,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1615,"relations":1616},"catnicas-journal","Catnica's Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#catnicas-journal","A chronicle of a local witch's ambitious endeavor. Catnica first petitions the vrakhiri by letter, then uses rituals to reach them. Bakir finally answers and gives her a tooth to swallow as a promise of immortality; her last entry records the burning pain that follows. Her four letters show how she tailored the same request to each ruler.",[1610],{"title":1606,"text":1611},"Night 3 of the Waxing Moon I have written to Boyar Bakir again, but he remains silent. And I cannot linger anymore. I have begun to reach out to the others as well. One of them will answer. They must. Night 9 of the Waxing Moon My desire burns too brightly…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1613},"Catnica's Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[1617,1620,1623],{"kind":31,"name":1618,"path":1619},"Letter to Boyar Bakir","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-to-boyar-bakir",{"kind":31,"name":1621,"path":1622},"Letter to Boyaress Xanthe","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-to-boyaress-xanthe",{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":1625,"name":359,"path":360,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1626,"excerpts":1627,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":167,"icon":1630,"categories":1632,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1633,"relations":1634},"cautionary-note-from-xanthe","Ominous and creepy. Xanthe attributes the deaths among her soldiers to a man who can walk in sunlight and moonlight. She orders them to kill him before the threat grows. Her later Admonition identifies that man as Coen of Laslea and ties the soldiers’ obedience to continued access to her blood.",[1628],{"title":359,"text":1629},"I gazed at the stars and they shared their secrets. The recent deaths in your ranks – I know who’s responsible. Be wary of a man who walks both under the sun and the moon. Sever the thread of his life, or he shall cause more harm. Weeds start as mere sprouts…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1631},"Cautionary Note from Xanthe inventory icon",[6],[],[1635,1636],{"kind":31,"name":346,"path":347},{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":1638,"name":1639,"path":1640,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1641,"excerpts":1642,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":823,"sellValue":66,"icon":1645,"categories":1647,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1648,"relations":1649},"checklist","Checklist","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#checklist","A list of life-saving items. The prepared supplies are for a group trying to cross the mountains and tell outsiders what has happened in Vale Sangora. Journal continues that escape account with the planned attempt at dawn.",[1643],{"title":1639,"text":1644},"Ropes – check Rations – check Water – check Silver – check Blankets – check Spare wheels – check Tools – check All is ready. May God help us. May we cross the mountains safely. May the story of our sorrows be believed. May we find good Christians willing to…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1646},"Checklist inventory icon",[6],[],[1650],{"kind":31,"name":1651,"path":1652},"Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#journal",{"slug":1654,"name":1655,"path":1656,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":1657,"excerpts":1658,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":273,"icon":1661,"categories":1663,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1664,"relations":1665},"chronicle-skenders-last-days","Chronicle: Skender's Last Days","\u002Fitems\u002Fchronicle-skenders-last-days","A story of the former knyaz's long-lost treasures.",[1659],{"title":1655,"text":1660},"After they dealt with the wretched Knyaz Skender, Brencis and his future boyars headed to Greifberg Castle. They entered it without resistance, as the soldiers defending the keep hated Skender as much as Brencis himself had. But it soon became clear that the…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1662},"Chronicle: Skender's Last Days inventory icon",[6],[],[1666,1667,1668],{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":1013,"path":1014},{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":1670,"name":1671,"path":1672,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1673,"excerpts":1674,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":273,"icon":1677,"categories":1679,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1680,"relations":1681},"clandestine-orders","Clandestine Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#clandestine-orders","They mention a hiding spot for some valuables. The instructions point to a satchel behind a black crate in a warehouse, then to a supposedly haunted cave chosen as its hiding place. The writer signs “M.”, entrusts the delivery to Ignir and wants it concealed from Skender.",[1675],{"title":1671,"text":1676},"Ignir, This letter is for your eyes only. I have a few special items I need stashed away from curious eyes in a nearby place where nobody, absolutely nobody, will look. You’re the only one I can trust with this, and I know you won’t let me down. Before you…",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1678},"Clandestine Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[1682,1683],{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"kind":31,"name":1684,"path":1685},"Regional map","\u002Fmaps\u002Fvale-sangora",{"slug":1687,"name":1688,"path":1689,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1690,"excerpts":1691,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":1305,"sellValue":273,"icon":1695,"categories":1697,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1698,"relations":1699},"climbers-note","Climber's Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#climbers-note","Found high in the mountains. Adam tells Francu to flee through childhood mountain trails after killing a Blood Guard in front of a witness. He rules out the roads and villages as hiding places within his warning.",[1692],{"title":1693,"text":1694},"A Climber’s Note","Francu, The Blood Guard you cut is dead, but there was a witness – and the bastard's mates are looking for you right now. So you proved what you wanted. Those fuckers are not untouchable. Still, your days are numbered if you stay in Sangora. Roads are not…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1696},"Climber's Note inventory icon",[6],[],[1700],{"kind":31,"name":1701,"path":1702},"Folded Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#folded-letter",{"slug":1704,"name":1705,"path":1706,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1707,"excerpts":1708,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1128,"sellValue":48,"icon":1711,"categories":1714,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1715,"relations":1716},"codex-dragosticus","Codex Dragosticus","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#codex-dragosticus","Laws of the old knyaz. Skender’s code assigns thirty lashes for insulting his rule or defacing his image, twenty for disrupting the crier or fouling the castle approach, and ten for failing to bow or yield to his retinue. Compare The Charter of Rights for the different public language used under Brencis.",[1709],{"title":1705,"text":1710},"I, Skender Dragosti, by the Grace of God ruler of Vale Sangora, hereby proclaim these laws, to be obeyed by all my subjects, irrespective of their station. Anyone speaking disparagingly of my rule shall receive thirty lashes. Anyone defacing images of my…",{"src":1712,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1713},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBN12.webp","Codex Dragosticus inventory icon",[6],[],[1717,1719,1720],{"kind":31,"name":1718,"path":1010},"Laws under the next ruler",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":1722,"name":1723,"path":1724,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1725,"excerpts":1726,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":273,"icon":1729,"categories":1731,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1732,"relations":1733},"collectors-ledger","Collector's Ledger","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#collectors-ledger","A list of mysterious items, most of them centuries old. The collector records ancient ornaments, weapons and a broken instrument, ending with an unusually heavy pendant that makes its wearer feel powerful. A spider-faced figurine has already been sold. The Collector’s Notes pick up the pendant’s story, including its purchase from Vicho and a tremor during the collector’s examination.",[1727],{"title":1723,"text":1728},"- shield – geometric motifs (sun, stars, mountain) – soldier's equipment \u002F ceremonial - ring, shaped like a snake – silver and amethyst – jewellery \u002F lucky charm? - dagger – bronze, grooves on the blade – sacrificial? - earring – gold, serpent-shaped symbols…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1730},"Collector's Ledger inventory icon",[6],[],[1734,1737],{"kind":31,"name":1735,"path":1736},"Collector's Notes","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#collectors-notes",{"kind":31,"name":1738,"path":1739},"Page from a Collector’s Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#page-from-a-collectors-journal",{"slug":1741,"name":1735,"path":1736,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1742,"excerpts":1743,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":372,"sellValue":22,"icon":1746,"categories":1748,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1749,"relations":1750},"collectors-notes","Scribbles by an increasingly disturbed man. The collector persuaded Vicho to sell a pendant after repeated visits to his Svartrau shop. While studying it, he felt the ground briefly shake and began to reconsider Vicho’s concern about a curse. The Collector’s Ledger adds the pendant’s unusual weight and the feeling of strength it produced when worn.",[1744],{"title":1735,"text":1745},"Vicho kept saying that he’s not quite sure what the pendant does, that it might be cursed and some other drivel like that, but I know the truth - he simply liked to have it in his possession. So I made it sure that I would frequent his curio shop and pester…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1747},"Collector's Notes inventory icon",[6],[],[1751,1752,1753],{"kind":31,"name":1723,"path":1724},{"kind":31,"name":1738,"path":1739},{"kind":31,"name":1754,"path":1755},"Vicho","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fvicho",{"slug":1757,"name":1758,"path":1759,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1760,"excerpts":1761,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":1764,"categories":1766,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1767,"relations":1768},"commanders-orders","Commander's Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#commanders-orders","Soldiers's orders on what to do with the miller Mert, suspected of aiding the rebels, and to his wife Renna. Rayko’s plan explains the ambush at the mill: arrest Mert, hide soldiers in the homestead, then seize anyone who contacts his wife. The destination for captured suspects is Stoneward Post, also named in Mert’s arrest report.",[1762],{"title":1758,"text":1763},"You are ordered to arrest the local miller on charges of collaboration with manumit forces. He is to be bound and transported without delay to Stoneward Post for detention and interrogation. Once the miller is secured, make his wife cooperate. She is to…",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1765},"Commander's Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[1769,1772,1775],{"kind":31,"name":1770,"path":1771},"Mert’s arrest report","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#millers-arrest-report",{"kind":31,"name":1773,"path":1774},"Mert","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fmert",{"kind":31,"name":1776,"path":1777},"Renna","\u002Fcharacters\u002Frenna",{"slug":1779,"name":1312,"path":1313,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1780,"excerpts":1781,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":167,"icon":1784,"categories":1786,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1787,"relations":1788},"confession","Dirty and bloodied. Caspar of Boar’s Back names Cunrat the Blind’s farm, north of Svartrau toward Laslea, as his manumit group’s meeting place. The statement also condemns Caspar in the regime’s language and accepts draining as punishment. Its useful geographical clue is the named farm and direction out of Svartrau.",[1782],{"title":1312,"text":1783},"I, Caspar of Boar's Back, confess what follows: – I am a dirty swine, despicable scum, worthless traitor, – I joined the murderous manumits and opposed our beloved knyaz, – My ring would meet in a farm belonging to old Cunrat the Blind, north of Svartrau,…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1785},"Confession inventory icon",[6],[],[1789,1790],{"kind":31,"name":1298,"path":1299},{"kind":31,"name":1791,"path":1792},"Boar's Back","\u002Flocations\u002Fboars-back",{"slug":1794,"name":1795,"path":1796,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1797,"excerpts":1798,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":167,"icon":1802,"categories":1804,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1805,"relations":1806},"confessional-note","Confessional Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#confessional-note","Desperation pushes people to do terrible things. The writer plans to kill his family and himself before the next forced mass. Read it alongside Hanged Man's Letter as an account of the desperation caused by compulsory blood worship.",[1799],{"title":1800,"text":1801},"Confession Note","Lord, I have contemplated this for a long time, and I see no other way to escape these dreadful creatures. There is no life for us under their rule. They would bleed my family dry. So, O Lord, forgive me for what I must do. Tonight, I will set us all free.…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1803},"Confessional Note inventory icon",[6],[],[1807],{"kind":31,"name":1808,"path":1809},"Hanged Man's Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#hanged-mans-letter",{"slug":1811,"name":1812,"path":974,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1813,"excerpts":1814,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":107,"icon":1817,"categories":1819,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1820,"relations":1821},"constantins-orders","Constantin's Orders","A robber baron's instructions for his men. Constantin orders doubled night watches, search parties of at least three and the capture of Racovitza’s men. The instructions establish the rivalry between their gangs. Warning — Racovitza adds the report that the rival has been seen dealing peacefully with vrakhiri forces.",[1815],{"title":1812,"text":1816},"Lads, From now on, keep a double watch – every night. Should anyone go missing, search for him in a group at least three men strong. And if you spot the lackeys of that bastard Racovitza near any of our camps, catch them and bring them to me. Other than…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1818},"Constantin's Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[1822,1825],{"kind":31,"name":1823,"path":1824},"Warning — Racovitza","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#warning-racovitza",{"kind":31,"name":1826,"path":978},"Constantin’s caravan warning",{"slug":1828,"name":1829,"path":1830,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1831,"excerpts":1832,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":1305,"sellValue":167,"icon":1835,"categories":1837,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1838,"relations":1839},"convicts-letter","Convict's Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#convicts-letter","A farewell and a confession. The condemned man expects to be pushed from a cliff instead of hanged. Addressed to his dead daughter Mari, his letter acknowledges his crimes and explains why he hopes to see her again.",[1833],{"title":1066,"text":1834},"Mari, Tomorrow they will execute me. They said it’s not worth wasting a rope on me – there’s a cliff nearby, pushing me off it should do the job. I’m guilty of the crimes they accused me of, there’s no denying it. After losing you, I also lost my way – and…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1836},"Convict's Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[1840],{"kind":31,"name":1841,"path":1842},"Executioner's List","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#executioners-list",{"slug":1844,"name":1845,"path":1846,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1847,"excerpts":1848,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":1851,"sellValue":824,"icon":1852,"categories":1854,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1855,"relations":1856},"craftsmans-journal","Craftsman's Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#craftsmans-journal","Journal of a hapless artist. The writer had been commissioned to paint Svartrau Cathedral’s ceiling before the knyaz’s death forced him to flee. He paid soldiers for passage and hoped their slow transport would reach the Northern Cleft bridge in time. Damyan’s Old Letter describes another attempted escape toward the same crossing.",[1849],{"title":1845,"text":1850},"Oh, God... Is this the end of the world?! When I got the commission, I felt like the luckiest person alive. My frescoes on the ceiling of Svartrau Cathedral – a dream come true. It was supposed to be my lifetime achievement! And now... It's as if the ghastly…",56,{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1853},"Craftsman's Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[1857,1860],{"kind":31,"name":1858,"path":1859},"Old Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#old-letter",{"kind":31,"name":1861,"path":1862},"Silver Cache Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#silver-cache-letter",{"slug":1864,"name":1865,"path":1866,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1867,"excerpts":1868,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":1128,"sellValue":252,"icon":1871,"categories":1873,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1874,"relations":1875},"crumpled-letter","Crumpled Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#crumpled-letter","A friend's warning. Jost warns Heinel that Fridl, Yurge, Johannes and Lana have vanished and connects the disappearances with the silver trade. The silver-trader guide covers the player's trading route separately.",[1869],{"title":1865,"text":1870},"Heinel, Did you hear? Fridl, Yurge, Johannes, Lana - they all disappeared without a trace. Likely imprisoned and drained. They're come after anyone who's been involved in silver trade. They'll come for you, too. Be warned. Jost",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1872},"Crumpled Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[1876],{"kind":31,"name":1877,"path":1878},"Silver trader and selling silver","\u002Fguides\u002Fsilver-trader",{"slug":1880,"name":1881,"path":1882,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1883,"excerpts":1884,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":107,"icon":1887,"categories":1889,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1890,"relations":1891},"crumpled-message","Crumpled Message","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#crumpled-message","A letter from a man who had a change of heart. Barnaba urges his brother to desert the barracks after dawn, using daylight to get away from their master. Read Names for Passage for another local document concerning a planned escape from the valley.",[1885],{"title":1881,"text":1886},"Brother, It’s time to leave the barracks. No amount of blood will ever be enough for the horrible things that madman orders us to do. Meet me tomorrow after dawn. He won’t be able to pursue us in daylight and I know a place we can hide, wait things out. I…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1888},"Crumpled Message inventory icon",[6],[],[1892],{"kind":31,"name":1893,"path":1894},"Names for Passage","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#names-for-passage",{"slug":1896,"name":1897,"path":1898,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1899,"excerpts":1900,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":273,"icon":1903,"categories":1905,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1906,"relations":1907},"crumpled-note","Crumpled Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#crumpled-note","Probably written by one of the manumit scouts. The scout records two guards in the evening, a large shape on the walls at midnight, and two missing companions. Read it with the orders to search the Middens to understand the pressure on the rebel scouts.",[1901],{"title":1897,"text":1902},"- evening – two guards – not regular patrol – sending B and Z after them - midnight – large shape spotted on walls – what the hell was it? - B and Z still not back…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1904},"Crumpled Note inventory icon",[6],[],[1908],{"kind":31,"name":1909,"path":1910},"The search of the Middens","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#orders-to-scour-the-middens",{"slug":1912,"name":1913,"path":1914,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":1915,"excerpts":1916,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":232,"buyValue":200,"sellValue":252,"icon":1919,"categories":1921,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1922,"relations":1923},"curious-maure","Curious Maure","\u002Fitems\u002Fcurious-maure","A cautionary tale.",[1917],{"title":1913,"text":1918},"There was once a hamlet named Velksvar, in which lived a learned woman called Maure. One day, while visiting the city, she approached a vendor of curiosities. Taken by her beauty, he gifted her a book bound in black leather, and the naïve young Maure…",{"src":315,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1920},"Curious Maure inventory icon",[6],[],[1924],{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":1926,"name":1927,"path":1928,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1929,"excerpts":1930,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":107,"icon":1934,"categories":1936,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1937,"relations":1938},"cursed-letter","Cursed Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#cursed-letter","Thrums with malevolent magic. Ilsa Hradec confronts Gisko for abandoning their planned marriage and marrying Osterhild instead. Her ominous wedding gift connects the broken engagement to the curse described in Gisko’s Contract: Brencis promises help for Osterhild in exchange for Coen’s death.",[1931],{"title":1932,"text":1933},"Ominous Letter","Gisko, You spoke to my father. You knelt before me. You asked for my hand. A dowry was prepared, a wedding gown was sewn and fitted. And then you married another. May you and Osterhild live happily ever after. Enjoy my gift, its nature shall soon become…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1935},"Cursed Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[1939],{"kind":31,"name":1940,"path":1941},"Gisko's Contract","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#giskos-contract",{"slug":1943,"name":1944,"path":1945,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":1946,"excerpts":1947,"rarity":1951,"material":19,"singleUse":12,"weight":20,"buyValue":1343,"sellValue":1952,"icon":1953,"categories":1956,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1958,"relations":1959},"cycle-of-ruin-manual","Cycle of Ruin Manual","\u002Fguides\u002Fskill-books#cycle-of-ruin-manual","A text about empowering one's magic. Makes a new ability available for learning in the development tree.",[1948],{"title":1949,"text":1950},"Magister Arcanorum, part 1","“We need to improve our magic. We pay with our blood, but the results are weak. Pitiful. If you say otherwise, you are a fool. But if you see the truth, know this: I shall give you the key to true power. My guidance is free, although we are both aware that…","Epic",176,{"src":1954,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1955},"items\u002FT_ITM_SpellBook_Cycle_of_Ruin.webp","Cycle of Ruin Manual inventory icon",[1957,6],"manual",[],[1960,1963,1964],{"kind":35,"name":1961,"path":1962},"Bakr-Erga","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fbakr-erga",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":35,"name":1965,"path":1966},"Vera","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fvera",{"slug":1968,"name":1969,"path":1970,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1971,"excerpts":1972,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":21,"sellValue":252,"icon":1975,"categories":1978,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1979,"relations":1980},"dads-lullaby","Dad's Lullaby","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#dads-lullaby","A folk song from Vale Sangora. The verses name Brencis, Bakir, Ambrus and Xanthe as nighttime threats, turning a parent’s reassurance into a catalogue of the ruling vrakhiri. Its bedtime promises belong to the song’s voice; Around Animals collects other household beliefs about surviving the night.",[1973],{"title":1969,"text":1974},"Hey, little baby, the night is here You know that it means Brencis is near So close your eyes now, don’t make a peep He will not get you if you’re asleep Hey, little darling, listen to Dad Bakir is looking for children bad So close your eyes now, don’t make…",{"src":1976,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1977},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBBL1.webp","Dad's Lullaby inventory icon",[6],[],[1981,1983,1984,1985],{"kind":31,"name":1982,"path":872},"Household beliefs about night creatures",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":1987,"name":1988,"path":1989,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":1990,"excerpts":1991,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1432,"sellValue":252,"icon":1994,"categories":1996,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":1997,"relations":1998},"dalyans-tale","Dalyan’s Tale","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#dalyans-tale","Yellowed and tattered, but still readable. Dalyan returns from the Eternal Pass with food and a story of a generous goddess, but cannot find the way back. Yokel Utopia gives the sceptical version of the same legend and compares it with Cockaigne.",[1992],{"title":1988,"text":1993},"There once was a shepherd, and his name was Dalyan. He got lost searching for his sheep and was gone for a long time. His family mourned him, his friends all but forgot him. And then he returned, a wreath of flowers in his hair, a sack heavy with all sorts…",{"src":807,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":1995},"Dalyan’s Tale inventory icon",[6],[],[1999],{"kind":31,"name":2000,"path":2001},"Yokel Utopia","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#yokel-utopia",{"slug":2003,"name":2004,"path":2005,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2006,"excerpts":2007,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":232,"buyValue":1343,"sellValue":66,"icon":2011,"categories":2014,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2015,"relations":2016},"dawn-and-dusk","Dawn and Dusk","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#dawn-and-dusk","A poem by one P. Ovidius Naso The poem presents Dawn and Dusk as rival brothers, then describes travellers who keep one eye open to each. Its final question leaves their position between day and night as both burden and possibility. Ovid’s Exile is the related text about figures who cross that divide.",[2008],{"title":2009,"text":2010},"Dawn and Dusk, by P. Ovidius Naso","Dawn and Dusk are like twin brothers, ever competing, Ever trying to wrangle the Earth from the hands of the other. And so goes for their many servants and children, too. Those who serve Dusk disobey Dawn, Those who love Dawn hate his brother Dusk. Us…",{"src":2012,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2013},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBB12.webp","Dawn and Dusk inventory icon",[6],[],[2017,2020],{"kind":31,"name":2018,"path":2019},"The related account in Ovid’s Exile","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#ovids-exile",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":2022,"name":2023,"path":2024,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2025,"excerpts":2026,"rarity":183,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":2029,"categories":2032,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2033,"relations":2034},"de-vocatione-et-ligatione","De Vocatione et Ligatione","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#de-vocatione-et-ligatione","A black magic grimoire. This is the ritual book behind Marcus’s plan to protect Henrik with an enchanted bracelet in The Price of Magic. Its missing conclusion is on the Torn-out Page. Read Marcus’s Journal for his reason for borrowing the book, then use the separate page to complete the ritual’s spoken ending.",[2027],{"title":2023,"text":2028},"(...) After a successful summoning, the bracelet should be enchanted with daemonic power, thus creating a defensive charm that will protect the wearer from any mortal danger. A word of caution though – once the item has served its purpose, the entity within…",{"src":2030,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2031},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBY5.webp","De Vocatione et Ligatione inventory icon",[6],[],[2035,2038],{"kind":31,"name":2036,"path":2037},"Marcus's Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#marcuss-journal",{"kind":31,"name":2039,"path":2040},"Torn Out Page","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#torn-out-page",{"slug":2042,"name":2043,"path":2044,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2045,"excerpts":2046,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":273,"icon":2049,"categories":2051,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2052,"relations":2053},"defiant-mans-note","Defiant Man's Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#defiant-mans-note","Words of a man who's had enough. Jermen Hert declares that he will resist any ruler who takes his family's land and labour. Compare Call to Revolt, which turns similar grievances into an appeal for collective action.",[2047],{"title":2043,"text":2048},"Sod it all. We will not be pushed around anymore. I don’t care whether it’s men or devils that come to ask their due. It’s my work, my land, my family. If they come to cut us down, so be it. We’ve been crawling with our faces in the mud long enough. I’m…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2050},"Defiant Man's Note inventory icon",[6],[],[2054],{"kind":31,"name":662,"path":663},{"slug":2056,"name":2057,"path":2058,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2059,"excerpts":2060,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":107,"icon":2063,"categories":2065,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2066,"relations":2067},"delivery-list","Delivery List","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#delivery-list","A list of goods, followed by a not-so-friendly disclaimer. The delivery destination is a merchant's stand in Altenmarkt, with flour, pork, chicken and apples required fresh. This is the supplier's order, giving the intended destination of the shipment.",[2061],{"title":2057,"text":2062},"20 sacks of flour 25 pounds of pork 10 pounds of chicken meat 5 boxes of apples Deliver to my stand in Altenmarkt. I’ll pay only for fresh, undamaged merchandise. A mess like what you got me last time will not do. The old nobility may be gone, but it doesn't…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2064},"Delivery List inventory icon",[6],[],[2068],{"kind":31,"name":2069,"path":2070},"Merchant's Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#merchants-letter",{"slug":2072,"name":2073,"path":2074,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2075,"excerpts":2076,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":167,"icon":2080,"categories":2082,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2083,"relations":2084},"demand-letter","Demand Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#demand-letter","Signed by one Armaya, associated with boyaress Xanthe. Armaya requisitions twelve trusted men with digging tools, rope, buckets, a wheelbarrow and a sieve. She plans to collect them personally and direct their work. The Requisition Letter covers the next logistical need: dependable guards to transport the ancient objects recovered for Xanthe.",[2077],{"title":2078,"text":2079},"Instructions from Armaya","Commander, You will provide me with a dozen trusted men, each equipped with a spade, trowel, thirty feet of hemp rope, two buckets, a wheelbarrow and a sieve. I shall come by your camp soon and personally direct them to where they are needed. Disobey me and…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2081},"Demand Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[2085,2086,2089],{"kind":31,"name":445,"path":446},{"kind":31,"name":2087,"path":2088},"Xanthe's Instructions","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#xanthes-instructions",{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":2091,"name":2092,"path":2093,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2094,"excerpts":2095,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":144,"sellValue":252,"icon":2098,"categories":2101,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2102,"relations":2103},"deployment-to-maragir","Deployment to Maragir","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#deployment-to-maragir","Help request for quelling the rebellion. Dolmir orders reinforcements into Maragir to support Ambrus against the manumits. This supplies the military context for Ambrus’s challenge and the pressure he places on the local population.",[2096],{"title":2092,"text":2097},"Sergeant, You are to gather your people and move out to Maragir now – and I mean ‘now’, not when you finish whatever knavery you’re currently involved in. Looks like Boyar Ambrus has a small rebellion on his hands. Even though the locals are ever so grateful…",{"src":2099,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2100},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBG11.webp","Deployment to Maragir inventory icon",[6],[],[2104,2106],{"kind":31,"name":2105,"path":416},"Ambrus’s challenge",{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":2108,"name":2109,"path":2110,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2111,"excerpts":2112,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":65,"sellValue":201,"icon":2115,"categories":2117,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2118,"relations":2119},"diary","Diary","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#diary","A hapless bandit's journal. The soldier's short diary records worsening food, cold weather and repeated gambling losses, ending with illness after cooking for himself. It presents everyday barracks life beside the more formal military correspondence.",[2113],{"title":2109,"text":2114},"— Damp. Cold. Food awful. Lost at cards. — Rain. Cold. Food even worse. Lost at cards. — Sunny but still cold. Decided to cook myself. Lost at cards. — Violent diarrhoea. Lost at cards. Wonder if things can get any worse. —",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2116},"Diary inventory icon",[6],[],[2120],{"kind":31,"name":265,"path":266},{"slug":2122,"name":2123,"path":2124,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2125,"excerpts":2126,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":273,"icon":2130,"categories":2132,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2133,"relations":2134},"diplomatic-missive","Diplomatic Missive","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#diplomatic-missive","Addressed to the leader of an uriashi clan. Bakir demands ten trained, fully equipped uriashi from the Tavr matriarch before the month ends. His threat of punishment makes the coercion behind their military service clear. Tavr Magh’s reprimand and the Letter of Denial describe what that service means for individual uriashi.",[2127],{"title":2128,"text":2129},"Missive to Clan Tavr","Your most esteemed goatness, matriarch of clan Tavr, I hope this missive finds you well and you shall never lack verdant moss. I am writing to inform you that I shall require additional ten uriashi footmen, well trained and fully equipped, to report for duty…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2131},"Diplomatic Missive inventory icon",[6],[],[2135,2138],{"kind":31,"name":2136,"path":2137},"Tavr Magh","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#tavr-magh",{"kind":31,"name":2139,"path":2140},"Letter of Denial","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-of-denial",{"slug":2142,"name":2143,"path":2144,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2145,"excerpts":2146,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":2150,"categories":2152,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2153,"relations":2154},"directives-from-ambrus","Directives from Ambrus","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#directives-from-ambrus","Details the boyar's activities Ambrus explains the sequence of the draining operation: collect the victims’ blood, add leech spittle to full barrels, seal them and send them to storage. He requires contaminated batches to be discarded and punishes dilution. Instructions from Ambrus explain why the leeches must reach the collectors alive.",[2147],{"title":2148,"text":2149},"Orders from Ambrus","Soldier, This is to inform you that you and your men have been assigned to draining duties. Make sure you do not waste any blood – and so, slit the victims's veins only once they have been properly positioned over collection vessels, and leave them up for at…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2151},"Directives from Ambrus inventory icon",[6],[],[2155,2158,2161],{"kind":31,"name":2156,"path":2157},"Instructions from Ambrus","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#instructions-from-ambrus",{"kind":31,"name":2159,"path":2160},"Letter of Reprimand","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-of-reprimand",{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":2163,"name":2164,"path":2165,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2166,"excerpts":2167,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":1432,"sellValue":66,"icon":2170,"categories":2173,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2174,"relations":2175},"dream-stealers","Dream Stealers","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#dream-stealers","Nightmare material. Red moths settle on sleepers’ eyes and exchange pleasant dreams for nightmares in this tale. Honey on a windowsill is the protection named by its fearful inhabitants. The Moth Omen gives a different role to moths in the valley’s supernatural folklore.",[2168],{"title":2164,"text":2169},"On certain nights, when the world sinks into deepest silence and even dogs cease to bark, come the red moths. They arrive without notice, slipping through cracks and creeping up windowpanes, tapping with their wings like impatient guests demanding entry.…",{"src":2171,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2172},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBR8.webp","Dream Stealers inventory icon",[6],[],[2176,2179],{"kind":31,"name":2177,"path":2178},"Moths as an omen","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-moth-omen",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":2181,"name":2182,"path":1033,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2183,"excerpts":2184,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":200,"sellValue":48,"icon":2187,"categories":2190,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2191,"relations":2192},"eat-thy-neighbours","Eat Thy Neighbours","Old wives's tales. Probably. A supposedly healing crystal brings visitors to a village, but the hosts begin eating them and transform as the crystal loses its light. The survivors flee into caves. This is the origin story behind the document’s hungry cave-dwellers; Beware the Circling Steps describes a settlement fearing their approach.",[2185],{"title":2182,"text":2186},"There was once a village in Vale Sangora, the name of which had best stay forgotten. It was little more than dirt and dust until the day the residents found a curious crystal, bright as a caged sun. They said its glow was healing. Travellers came from…",{"src":2188,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2189},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBR15.webp","Eat Thy Neighbours inventory icon",[6],[],[2193,2195],{"kind":31,"name":2194,"path":1018},"The circling-footprints warning",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":2197,"name":2198,"path":2199,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2200,"excerpts":2201,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":331,"sellValue":201,"icon":2204,"categories":2206,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2207,"relations":2208},"edug-and-elil","Edug and Elil","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#edug-and-elil","The vellum is so old it crumbles. The brothers enter the Underworld to reclaim their father Edru from Sheema, aided by the mountain-sized war god Andag. Sheema keeps Edru but allows his sons to return as the sun and moon. How Uktash Met Nassur introduces another deity from these ancient stories.",[2202],{"title":2198,"text":2203},"Once, Sheema fell in love with a champion named Edru, who guarded his tribe from the vrakhiri. She took him to the Underworld, so she would have him by her side. But Edru's sons Edug and Elil would not allow it. So they travelled to the Underworld to get…",{"src":807,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2205},"Edug and Elil inventory icon",[6],[],[2209,2212],{"kind":31,"name":2210,"path":2211},"The silver serpent Nassur","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#how-uktash-met-nassur",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":2214,"name":2215,"path":2216,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2217,"excerpts":2218,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":167,"icon":2222,"categories":2224,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2225,"relations":2226},"enticing-offer","Enticing Offer","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#enticing-offer","Letter addressed to Bakir's soldiers. Bakir advertises transport duty to soldiers bored with guarding a fixed position and directs volunteers to their superior. The Shipping Ledger shows the settlement-by-settlement orders behind those journeys, from extra liquor for Sever to reduced deliveries for Parlita.",[2219],{"title":2220,"text":2221},"Transport Duty","My dearest vermin, Tired of stationary duty? Getting bored and restless? You dream of seeing new places, meeting new friends? Oh my, do I have something for you! Report to your direct superior and request (politely, mind you!) to be assigned to transport…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2223},"Enticing Offer inventory icon",[6],[],[2227,2228],{"kind":31,"name":628,"path":629},{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":2230,"name":2231,"path":2232,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2233,"excerpts":2234,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":167,"icon":2238,"categories":2240,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2241,"relations":2242},"evaluation-letter","Evaluation Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#evaluation-letter","Message exchanged between boyaress Xanthe's officers. Sergeant Hermin tells recruiters to increase enlistment by using persuasion, money or threats. He singles out a drop of the boyaress’s blood as their strongest inducement. The Stern Reminder then sets the requirements for recruits arriving at Blood Guard training camps.",[2235],{"title":2236,"text":2237},"Regarding Recruitment","To all recruiters, The boyaress is displeased with your efforts. She wishes to have more conscripts, and soon. Spare no efforts in finding the right men. Use flattery, bribery, threats – whatever you think will work best. Remember that the boyaress's blood…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2239},"Evaluation Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[2243,2246,2249],{"kind":31,"name":2244,"path":2245},"Stern Reminder","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#stern-reminder",{"kind":31,"name":2247,"path":2248},"Letter from Mother","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-from-mother",{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":2251,"name":2252,"path":2253,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2254,"excerpts":2255,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":331,"sellValue":48,"icon":2258,"categories":2261,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2262,"relations":2263},"everybody-hates-brencis","Everybody Hates Brencis","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#everybody-hates-brencis","Illegal samizdat. The leaflet claims foreign rulers and the Pope oppose Brencis, then argues that Sangorans should overthrow him themselves instead of waiting for outsiders. Its central appeal is self-rule, a theme developed more fully in the Manumit Manifesto.",[2256],{"title":2252,"text":2257},"Let it be known that Knyaz Brencis of Vale Sangora is hated and despised in the whole of Europe! All the neighbouring realms have declared him an usurper and the Pope will call for a crusade against him any day now! But why should we wait for others to…",{"src":2259,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2260},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBY11.webp","Everybody Hates Brencis inventory icon",[6],[],[2264,2267],{"kind":31,"name":2265,"path":2266},"The manumits’ case for resistance","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#manumit-manifesto",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":2269,"name":2270,"path":2271,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2272,"excerpts":2273,"rarity":183,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":2276,"categories":2278,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2279,"relations":2280},"excavation-log","Excavation Log","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#excavation-log","Sheds light on Xanthe's activities. The excavator first records an intact tomb and a routine inventory. After trying to copy a painting of a bleeding, winged warrior, the entries turn to fever, orange skies in dreams and the repeated name Andag. Xanthe’s Instructions place this discovery within her search for ancient treasures.",[2274],{"title":2270,"text":2275},"1. Tomb opened. Intact. No guardians. 2. Took inventory of all items. Started packing. 3. Tried tracing the painting with the winged, bleeding warrior. The paint flaked off the wall. 4. Couldn't work today. Fever. Dreams. Orange skies. 5. Andag. Andag.…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2277},"Excavation Log inventory icon",[6],[],[2281,2282],{"kind":31,"name":2087,"path":2088},{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":2284,"name":2285,"path":2286,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2287,"excerpts":2288,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":331,"sellValue":824,"icon":2292,"categories":2295,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2296,"relations":2297},"excerpt-from-carmina","Excerpt from Carmina","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#excerpt-from-carmina","From Anca's collection. The Latin poem addresses Lesbia and answers how many kisses would satisfy Catullus: as many as the sands around Cyrene or the stars watching lovers at night. Its central image is a number too vast for jealous observers to count, pairing naturally with the other classical reading exercise, Excerpts from Fabulae.",[2289],{"title":2290,"text":2291},"Catullus 7","Quaeris quot mihi basiationes tuae, Lesbia, sint satis superque. quam magnus numerus Libyssae harenae laserpiciferis iacet Cyrenis, oraclum Iovis inter aestuosi et Batti veteris sacrum sepulcrum, aut quam sidera multa, cum tacet nox, furtivos hominum vident…",{"src":2293,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2294},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBG10.webp","Excerpt from Carmina inventory icon",[6],[],[2298,2301],{"kind":31,"name":2299,"path":2300},"Excerpts from Fabulae","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#excerpts-from-fabulae",{"kind":31,"name":1294,"path":1295},{"slug":2303,"name":2304,"path":2305,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2306,"excerpts":2307,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":1128,"sellValue":201,"icon":2311,"categories":2314,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2315,"relations":2316},"excerpt-from-poemata","Excerpt from Poemata","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#excerpt-from-poemata","From Anca's collection. The Latin passage begins by making fear the origin of belief in gods, then links divine worship to thunder, the sun and moon, harvests and human occupations. Its argument contrasts with On Ruling a Realm, which presents the social order as God’s design.",[2308],{"title":2309,"text":2310},"Petronius – Poemata","Primus in orbe deos fecit timor, ardua caelo fulmina cum caderent discussaque moenia flammis atque ictus flagraret Athos, mox Phoebus ab ortu lustrata deuectus humo, Lunaeque senectus et reparatus honos, hinc signa effusa per orbem et permutatis disiunctus…",{"src":2312,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2313},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBG9.webp","Excerpt from Poemata inventory icon",[6],[],[2317,2320],{"kind":31,"name":2318,"path":2319},"Religion used to justify social rank","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#on-ruling-a-realm",{"kind":31,"name":1294,"path":1295},{"slug":2322,"name":2299,"path":2300,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2323,"excerpts":2324,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":1110,"sellValue":66,"icon":2328,"categories":2330,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2331,"relations":2332},"excerpts-from-fabulae","From Anca's collection. These Latin exercises retell two myths. Ariadne helps Theseus escape the labyrinth by retracing his thread after killing the Minotaur; Cassandra rejects Apollo and is cursed to speak true prophecies that nobody believes. The opening note presents both passages as grammar practice.",[2325],{"title":2326,"text":2327},"Hyginus: Fabulae","Try your hand at these excerpts. The grammar is very simple and the stories are interesting... Though they might give you nightmares. A. THESEUS APUD MINOTAURUM Theseus posteaquam Cretam venit, ab Ariadne Minois filia est adamatus adeo, ut fratrem proderet…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2329},"Excerpts from Fabulae inventory icon",[6],[],[2333,2334],{"kind":31,"name":2285,"path":2286},{"kind":31,"name":1294,"path":1295},{"slug":2336,"name":1841,"path":1842,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2337,"excerpts":2338,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":862,"sellValue":273,"icon":2341,"categories":2343,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2344,"relations":2345},"executioners-list","The heads that had to roll. The five condemned people are Jarlo, Ikis, Kieta, Narcin and Eugine. Their offences range from refusing the blood offering to harbouring a fugitive and speaking of the old God, showing what the regime treats as grounds for execution.",[2339],{"title":1841,"text":2340},"Jarlo, refusing to offer his blood during mass, demanding to be given Brencis’s blessed drop for free. Ikis, disobeying direct orders from the guard wanting to inspect his cart, riling up companions. Kieta, harbouring a fugitive sentenced to hanging last…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2342},"Executioner's List inventory icon",[6],[],[2346,2349],{"kind":31,"name":2347,"path":2348},"Proclamation of Treason","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#proclamation-of-treason",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":2351,"name":2352,"path":2353,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2354,"excerpts":2355,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":2358,"categories":2360,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2361,"relations":2362},"exorcists-account","Exorcist's Account","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#exorcists-account","Notes about the assignment that cost him his life. The exorcist counts six spirits and describes suffering rather than malice. He leaves the account in case his attempt to put them to rest fails; the valley's haunted-site map provides the related exploration leads.",[2356],{"title":2352,"text":2357},"As far as I can tell, there are six of them. I can hear their whispers carried by the night’s air. The words are difficult to understand, but I’m nearly certain there is no evil lurking in these souls. Merely pain, merely tormented anguish. I shall do my…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2359},"Exorcist's Account inventory icon",[6],[],[2363],{"kind":31,"name":2364,"path":2365},"Vale Sangora's Haunted Places","\u002Fmaps\u002Fvale-sangora#place-938598",{"slug":2367,"name":2368,"path":2369,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2370,"excerpts":2371,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":107,"icon":2375,"categories":2377,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2378,"relations":2379},"explorers-journal","Explorer's Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#explorers-journal","Describes a fascinating discovery. The explorer plans to backtrack west from his camp in unnamed ruins to a stone circle passed the previous evening. The westward direction is the useful lead in this account; Treasure Hunter's Note supplies a different westward clue from ruins to a canyon.",[2372],{"title":2373,"text":2374},"Explorer’s Journal","(...) Vale Sangora is a fascinating place. Judging by my findings, it is really difficult to say what kind of people dominated these lands throughout the ages – I found traces of Germans, Slavs, Bohemians, and even Magyars. But of course, the ones most…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2376},"Explorer's Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[2380],{"kind":31,"name":2381,"path":2382},"Treasure Hunter's Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#treasure-hunters-note",{"slug":2384,"name":2385,"path":2386,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2387,"excerpts":2388,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":167,"icon":2391,"categories":2393,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2394,"relations":2395},"faded-orders","Faded Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#faded-orders","Svartrau city guard captain's orders concerning a monster hunt. The patrol’s destination is the Balaur peak outside Parlita. Skender dismisses the reported monster while ordering his troops to investigate it, and the letter is signed by Constantin during his service as captain of the Svartrau City Guard. Follow The Beast of Balaur for the related mountain and cave investigation.",[2389],{"title":2385,"text":2390},"After reading a desperate petition from the people of Parlita, His Majesty Knyaz Skender Dragosti commands the Parlita patrol to reconnoitre (that means: check) the peak known as the Balaur and its surroundings in search for a monster allegedly \"terrorising…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2392},"Faded Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[2396,2399,2401],{"kind":31,"name":2397,"path":2398},"The Beast of Balaur","\u002Fquests#the-beast-of-balaur",{"kind":31,"name":2400,"path":974},"Constantin’s later bandit orders",{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":2403,"name":2404,"path":2405,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2406,"excerpts":2407,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":2410,"sellValue":252,"icon":2411,"categories":2413,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2414,"relations":2415},"faded-report","Faded Report","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#faded-report","A disturbing summary of Brother Wilhelm's investigation. Brother Wilhelm records eleven night-time killings, missing blood and bite wounds, then asks the Master of the Hunt to search caves and woods. Read it before Final Report to follow the change from the investigation of unexplained attacks to the open collapse of Skender’s rule.",[2408],{"title":2404,"text":2409},"Your Majesty, I regret to inform that, despite my efforts, the killer's identity remains unknown. This is what I've come to know so far: all eleven victims died during the night and they all lost most of their blood, which was not to be found anywhere near…",41,{"src":50,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2412},"Faded Report inventory icon",[6],[],[2416,2419],{"kind":31,"name":2417,"path":2418},"Final Report","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#final-report",{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":2421,"name":2422,"path":2423,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2424,"excerpts":2425,"rarity":183,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":2429,"categories":2431,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2432,"relations":2433},"fanatics-journal","Fanatic's Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#fanatics-journal","Each letter was written with zeal. The writer, Emmrich and Alef destroy an uriash shrine and copy its symbols to help others identify more targets. This is an account of the destruction; the shrine-heart entries explain the player’s separate restoration tasks.",[2426],{"title":2427,"text":2428},"Zealot's Journal","(...) I had a vision. The vrakhiri are not God’s messengers, but His punishment for our sins. We must show Him our faith if we want to reclaim our lives. But how? (...) Talked to Emmrich and we decided that the best way to show our zeal is to destroy the…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2430},"Fanatic's Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[2434],{"kind":31,"name":2435,"path":1423},"Shrine hearts and restoration tasks",{"slug":2437,"name":1066,"path":1067,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2438,"excerpts":2439,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":273,"icon":2443,"categories":2445,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2446,"relations":2447},"farewell-letter","A desperate goodbye. Allia leaves Drevin because she rejects the blood mass even though it cures the plague. Her argument echoes Beware Vrakhiri Blood's opposition to exchanging spiritual obedience for bodily healing.",[2440],{"title":2441,"text":2442},"Final Words","I did my best to believe you, Drevin. I told myself it would get better, that I'd stop feeling like my soul was fouled every mass. Everyone else has accepted it, you said, and you were right – and that's the worst part. Nobody sees what they’re doing to us…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2444},"Farewell Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[2448],{"kind":31,"name":1052,"path":1053},{"slug":2450,"name":2451,"path":1228,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2452,"excerpts":2453,"rarity":183,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":2456,"categories":2459,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2460,"relations":2461},"father-florins-notes","Father Florin's Notes","A few pages covered in the priest's writings. Florin wants ancient armour that could let a champion face the vrakhiri. Danos’s expedition and its losses explain the earlier bloody notes; the underground guide follows the player’s route through the ruins and armour chamber.",[2454],{"title":2451,"text":2455},"Desperate times really do push a man to make surprising choices. The ruins my flock discovered are clearly of pagan origin. I can only imagine the depraved rites that were held here in the past… But if I must now scour this place in order to find a way to…",{"src":2457,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2458},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBB2.webp","Father Florin's Notes inventory icon",[6],[],[2462,2465],{"kind":31,"name":2463,"path":2464},"Ancient armour and underground routes","\u002Fguides\u002Fsvartrau-underground",{"kind":31,"name":302,"path":303},{"slug":2467,"name":2468,"path":2469,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2470,"excerpts":2471,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":273,"icon":2474,"categories":2476,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2477,"relations":2478},"field-report","Field Report","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#field-report","A post commander's report on where to look for manumits's secret supply caches. The report identifies three kinds of manumit hiding places: collapsed cellars, dry wells and spaces beneath stone markers. It also says confiscated supplies were moved to Svartrau. Use those details to understand the supply network described in the burned correspondence.",[2472],{"title":2468,"text":2473},"We have confirmed that supply caches are hidden throughout the valley. This seems to be how the manumits move combat resources among themselves, notably silver arrowheads and provisions intended for use against our beloved knyaz. Of course, all contraband…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2475},"Field Report inventory icon",[6],[],[2479],{"kind":31,"name":2480,"path":2481},"Half-Burnt Letter from C.","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#half-burnt-letter-from-c",{"slug":2483,"name":2484,"path":2485,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2486,"excerpts":2487,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":2490,"categories":2492,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2493,"relations":2494},"final-instructions","Final Instructions","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#final-instructions","Praise from the manumits for completing the task, with a promise of a reward. The requested drop-off is the hollow of the tree named in Initial Instructions. The instructions ask the recipient to leave the gathered messages there and return at the same time the following day for payment. Read both documents together to follow the exchange.",[2488],{"title":2484,"text":2489},"Brother Coen, Well done. Leave all the messages within the hollow of this tree. Do not trouble yourself to decode them – we shall see to that. Return here at the same time on the morrow to claim your reward. Stay vigilant.",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2491},"Final Instructions inventory icon",[6],[],[2495],{"kind":31,"name":2496,"path":2497},"Initial Instructions","\u002Fitems\u002Finitial-instructions",{"slug":2499,"name":2417,"path":2418,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2500,"excerpts":2501,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":2504,"categories":2506,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2507,"relations":2508},"final-report","Captain Bojidar's honest thoughts about his commander. Captain Bojidar’s resignation places the report after Skender’s death and the fall of Greifberg Castle. It names Catalin as the surviving son who was outside the valley and accuses the commander of escaping with the treasure transport. Special Orders identifies that transport’s intended heir and its prized sword.",[2502],{"title":2417,"text":2503},"Lord Commander, With all due respect – fuck you, sir. We aren't going back there. It's over. The knyaz is dead, the castle – taken over, its walls decorated with corpses of the chamberlain, Lady Rosa and all of the knyaz's progeny (except, of course, for…",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2505},"Final Report inventory icon",[6],[],[2509,2512],{"kind":31,"name":2510,"path":2511},"Special Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#special-orders",{"kind":31,"name":2513,"path":2514},"Catalin","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fcatalin",{"slug":2516,"name":2517,"path":2518,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2519,"excerpts":2520,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":167,"icon":2523,"categories":2525,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2526,"relations":2527},"find-crake","Find Crake","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#find-crake","Orders to Brencis's soldiers. The army orders soldiers to report any information about Crake and capture him dead or alive, with a reward for his head. Intel on Crake is a follow-up intelligence report; On Crake’s Identity explicitly rules out one named suspect.",[2521],{"title":2517,"text":2522},"Soldiers! The thief, murderer and rebel calling himself Crake is the enemy of the Knyaz, of the people, and of you! If you come across any information about him, report it to your commander at once! And If you spot the bastard, capture him at all cost - dead…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2524},"Find Crake inventory icon",[6],[],[2528,2531,2532],{"kind":31,"name":2529,"path":2530},"A disproven Crake suspect","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#on-crakes-identity",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":2533,"path":2534},"Crake","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fcrake",{"slug":2536,"name":2537,"path":1207,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2538,"excerpts":2539,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":2542,"categories":2544,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2545,"relations":2546},"florins-orders","Florin's Orders","A curious letter from Father Florin. Boris is sent to search for St. Mihai’s shrine in the forest near Laslea and return discoveries to Florin in Svartrau. Blood-Soaked Journal is the expedition’s follow-up, describing the cave and their hurried departure.",[2540],{"title":2537,"text":2541},"Boris, If what I found in the cathedral notes is true, there is a shrine dedicated to Saint Mihai in a forest near Laslea. I imagine that it’s in a woeful state – no pilgrims will have visited it in centuries – but it’s still worth investigating. Take a few…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2543},"Florin's Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[2547,2549,2550],{"kind":31,"name":2548,"path":1195},"The expedition’s account",{"kind":31,"name":302,"path":303},{"kind":31,"name":1210,"path":1211},{"slug":2552,"name":1701,"path":1702,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2553,"excerpts":2554,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":232,"buyValue":1851,"sellValue":824,"icon":2557,"categories":2559,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2560,"relations":2561},"folded-letter","A desperate request to tell the world what's been happening in Vale Sangora. Gerung asks Anselm to carry news of the vrakhiri beyond the border if his escape succeeds. Checklist and Journal describe the supplies and dawn departure of another mountain-crossing attempt.",[2555],{"title":1701,"text":2556},"Anselm, Word reached me that you'll make an attempt to cross the border tomorrow. I wish you all the luck, may you find a safe passage beyond this cursed valley. And if you do, I beg of you: tell the world of our sorrows. They won't believe you, they will…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2558},"Folded Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[2562,2563],{"kind":31,"name":1639,"path":1640},{"kind":31,"name":1651,"path":1652},{"slug":2565,"name":2566,"path":2567,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2568,"excerpts":2569,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":107,"icon":2572,"categories":2574,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2575,"relations":2576},"for-knyaz-and-country","For Knyaz and Country","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#for-knyaz-and-country","Orders to Brencis's soldiers. This morale notice presents routine patrols as work toward Brencis’s promised peace and prosperity. Bring Results gives the more concrete demands behind that message: confiscated silver, captured manumits and pay tied to a patrol’s results.",[2570],{"title":2566,"text":2571},"Soldiers! Remember - each day and each of your patrols, no matter how mundane, brings us closer to the everlasting peace and prosperity the Knyaz has promised to bring about! So do your part for Vale Sangora!",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2573},"For Knyaz and Country inventory icon",[6],[],[2577,2579],{"kind":31,"name":2578,"path":1484},"What patrols are ordered to deliver",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":2581,"name":2582,"path":2583,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2584,"excerpts":2585,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":167,"icon":2588,"categories":2591,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2592,"relations":2593},"for-the-largest-predators","For the Largest Predators","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#for-the-largest-predators","Vera's scroll about the most effective poisons to prepare her bait. The document belongs with Poison Weeds and Vera’s Lizard Note: it discusses bait for the large predator involved in Vera’s preparations. Read the three together for the research sequence, then follow Vera’s quest instructions for the actual ingredients and interactions.",[2586],{"title":2582,"text":2587},"Both variants of hemlock are excellent for the purpose of poisoning bait, with water hemlock being the herb of choice when the predator is large and there is no room for error. The white flowers sprouting from purple branches are difficult to mistake for…",{"src":2589,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2590},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_Scroll.webp","For the Largest Predators inventory icon",[6],[],[2594,2597],{"kind":31,"name":2595,"path":2596},"Vera’s lizard research","\u002Fitems\u002Fveras-lizard-note",{"kind":31,"name":1965,"path":1966},{"slug":2599,"name":2600,"path":2601,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2602,"excerpts":2603,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":2606,"categories":2608,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2609,"relations":2610},"from-life-of-st-anthony","From Life of St. Anthony","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#from-life-of-st-anthony","A saint's life story. For the English Mysterious Instruction puzzle, count to the 31st word in the biography's body: by. This is the sixth word of the waterfall direction.",[2604],{"title":2600,"text":2605},"Saint Anthony became well known for his strict asceticism. In his youth, he travelled to Mount Athos, where he lived in a cave as a hermit. Later, he was sent by his abbot to bring monasticism to his native Rus’. Near Kiev, he again chose the solitude of a…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2607},"From Life of St. Anthony inventory icon",[6],[],[2611],{"kind":31,"name":2612,"path":2613},"Mysterious Instruction","\u002Fitems\u002Fmysterious-instruction",{"slug":2615,"name":2616,"path":2617,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":2618,"excerpts":2619,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":2622,"categories":2624,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2625,"relations":2626},"from-life-of-st-benezet","From Life of St. Bénézet","\u002Fitems\u002Ffrom-life-of-st-benezet","The story of a well-known saint.",[2620],{"title":2616,"text":2621},"He was a French shepherd boy who heard a divine call to build a bridge over the Rhône River. Though the authorities mocked him, Bénézet proved his mission by lifting a great stone no man could move. Many miracles followed, such as the blind recovering their…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2623},"From Life of St. Bénézet inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":2628,"name":2629,"path":2630,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2631,"excerpts":2632,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":2635,"categories":2637,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2638,"relations":2639},"from-life-of-st-cuthbert","From Life of St. Cuthbert","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#from-life-of-st-cuthbert","An excerpt from a saint's hagiography. For the English Mysterious Instruction puzzle, take the 13th word in this biography: North. It starts the direction that ultimately leads to the cave behind the waterfall by the great bridge.",[2633],{"title":2629,"text":2634},"Saint Cuthbert lived as a hermit on the Farne Islands in the North Sea, where he was often seen praying while standing amidst the waves. Though a recluse, he became Bishop of Lindisfarne in 684. But after two years, sensing his death was near, he laid down…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2636},"From Life of St. Cuthbert inventory icon",[6],[],[2640],{"kind":31,"name":2612,"path":2613},{"slug":2642,"name":2643,"path":2644,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2645,"excerpts":2646,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":2649,"categories":2651,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2652,"relations":2653},"from-life-of-st-gregory","From Life of St. Gregory","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#from-life-of-st-gregory","An excerpt from St. Gregory's hagiography. For the English Mysterious Instruction puzzle, take the seventh word of this biography: Great. It pairs with the final biography's bridge to identify the landmark near the waterfall.",[2647],{"title":2643,"text":2648},"Commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, he came from the Roman nobility. After his father's death, he turned his family villa into a monastery, and for many years embraced a life of prayer and contemplation. That changed when Pope Pelagius II appointed…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2650},"From Life of St. Gregory inventory icon",[6],[],[2654],{"kind":31,"name":2612,"path":2613},{"slug":2656,"name":2657,"path":2658,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2659,"excerpts":2660,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":2663,"categories":2665,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2666,"relations":2667},"from-life-of-st-mihai","From Life of St. Mihai","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#from-life-of-st-mihai","A brief story of Svartrau's patron saint. In the English Mysterious Instruction puzzle, take the second word from the end of this biography: Svartrau. It is the third part of the eight-word direction to the waterfall near the great bridge.",[2661],{"title":2657,"text":2662},"Saint Mihai was once a pagan warrior, fierce in his battles against the Devil’s spawn. Guided by Providence, he was brought to the true Faith through the counsel of the monk Tobias. In the swamps of Maragir he met his end, slaying a monstrous foe at the cost…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2664},"From Life of St. Mihai inventory icon",[6],[],[2668,2669],{"kind":31,"name":2612,"path":2613},{"kind":31,"name":1210,"path":1211},{"slug":2671,"name":2672,"path":2673,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2674,"excerpts":2675,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":2678,"categories":2680,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2681,"relations":2682},"from-life-of-st-teotim","From Life of St. Teotim","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#from-life-of-st-teotim","The summary of a holy man's life. For the English Mysterious Instruction puzzle, count 22 words backwards from the end of this biography: waterfall. It is the fifth word of the clue and identifies the feature concealing the cave.",[2676],{"title":2672,"text":2677},"Born into a wealthy merchant family, he once lived a life of luxury and earthly pleasure. Yet a family tragedy led him to seek solace in solitude and God. After renouncing his lands, he withdrew to the Gorgany mountain ridge, where he built a modest…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2679},"From Life of St. Teotim inventory icon",[6],[],[2683],{"kind":31,"name":2612,"path":2613},{"slug":2685,"name":2686,"path":2687,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2688,"excerpts":2689,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":2692,"categories":2694,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2695,"relations":2696},"from-life-of-st-tobias","From Life of St. Tobias","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#from-life-of-st-tobias","Vale Sangora's patron saint's biography. For the English Mysterious Instruction puzzle, take the 12th word of this biography: into. It is the fourth word, between Svartrau and waterfall.",[2690],{"title":2686,"text":2691},"Saint Tobias, the one-armed monk, never sought power, yet was lifted into sainthood by his endurance and faith. Long ago, he ventured into the swamps of Maragir, where a monstrous ghast tore away his arm but not his spirit. From then on, he guided Vale…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2693},"From Life of St. Tobias inventory icon",[6],[],[2697],{"kind":31,"name":2612,"path":2613},{"slug":2699,"name":2700,"path":2701,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2702,"excerpts":2703,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":2706,"categories":2708,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2709,"relations":2710},"from-life-of-st-tyna","From Life of St. Tyna","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#from-life-of-st-tyna","A religious text about the patron of Vale Sangora's famous monastery. For the English Mysterious Instruction puzzle, take the ninth word of this biography: of. It is the second word, linking North with Svartrau in the decoded direction.",[2704],{"title":2700,"text":2705},"When Saint Tyna’s name is spoken, we think of charity and miracles, yet her beginnings were humble. Born to a peasant family, she was an unruly and wild child, until one day she drove off a wolf with only her voice and healed her wounded friend by touch.…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2707},"From Life of St. Tyna inventory icon",[6],[],[2711],{"kind":31,"name":2612,"path":2613},{"slug":2713,"name":2714,"path":2715,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2716,"excerpts":2717,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":200,"sellValue":201,"icon":2720,"categories":2723,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2724,"relations":2725},"gargoyles-out-of-order","Gargoyles out of Order","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#gargoyles-out-of-order","A notice concerning problems with manufactured gargoyles. Ziven reports that the flying defenders have stopped functioning and their keeper is absent. This is the garrison’s account of the failure, distinct from Brencis’s earlier instruction to use a gargoyle to guard the ritual.",[2718],{"title":2714,"text":2719},"The flying shits are refusing to function and the prick responsible for keeping them in shape has stopped showing up. I hope he’s chewing on maggot-filled dirt. Figure something out. I don’t know what, and frankly, I don’t care. Just be useful and make sure…",{"src":2721,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2722},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBY1.webp","Gargoyles out of Order inventory icon",[6],[],[2726],{"kind":31,"name":2727,"path":1391},"The earlier defensive order",{"slug":2729,"name":2730,"path":2731,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2732,"excerpts":2733,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":167,"icon":2736,"categories":2738,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2739,"relations":2740},"gheorghes-instructions","Gheorghe's Instructions","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#gheorghes-instructions","Gheorghe Racovitza's orders to his men. Gheorghe Racovitza orders his men to torture members of Constantin's gang for information before killing them. Letter from a Loved One records the injuries Racovitza's men inflicted on Nicu and his companions.",[2734],{"title":2730,"text":2735},"Men! If you catch Constantin's underlings, you have my permission to do anything you want to them, as long as it makes them talk. You may hang them naked from a tree, upside down, and then set their hair on fire. You may then cut their face, letting the…",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2737},"Gheorghe's Instructions inventory icon",[6],[],[2741],{"kind":31,"name":956,"path":957},{"slug":2743,"name":2744,"path":2745,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":13,"description":2746,"excerpts":2747,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":200,"sellValue":48,"icon":2750,"categories":2752,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2753,"relations":2754},"giant-bog-lizards","Giant Bog Lizards","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#giant-bog-lizards","A book treating on creatures living in the swamp.",[2748],{"title":2744,"text":2749},"One should take great caution when traversing the marshes of Vale Sangora, for it seems a new kind of creature has made them its home. Where it came from, no one knows. Some claim the depths of the sea; others insist – the depths of Hell. It is a creature…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2751},"Giant Bog Lizards inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":2756,"name":1940,"path":1941,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2757,"excerpts":2758,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":167,"icon":2761,"categories":2763,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2764,"relations":2765},"giskos-contract","Signed by one Gisko and Knyaz Brencis. Brencis hires Gisko of Teschen to kill Coen. In return, the court promises to help free Gisko’s betrothed Osterhild from demonic possession and give the couple passage out of Vale Sangora. The Cursed Letter supplies the personal background: Ilsa Hradec’s anger over Gisko breaking their engagement.",[2759],{"title":1940,"text":2760},"This contract was agreed upon by Knyaz Brencis, the sole and rightful ruler of Vale Sangora, and Gisko von Teschen of Bohemia, in Anno Domini 1349, in the presence of witnesses signed below, and stipulates what follows: Gisko of Teschen is to track down and…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2762},"Gisko's Contract inventory icon",[6],[],[2766,2767,2770],{"kind":31,"name":1927,"path":1928},{"kind":31,"name":2768,"path":2769},"Yaromil's Contract","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#yaromils-contract",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":2772,"name":2773,"path":2774,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2775,"excerpts":2776,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":273,"icon":2779,"categories":2781,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2782,"relations":2783},"goodbye-note","Goodbye Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#goodbye-note","A son writing about his regret. Predbor mourns a father who died shortly before Brencis arrived with a cure for the plague. The note explains why he accepts the new ruler's demands, in contrast to the refusal in Farewell Letter.",[2777],{"title":2773,"text":2778},"Father, I am so sorry. Things may not have ended this way if I had returned sooner. If only you had lived a few weeks longer under my care… We have a new knyaz now, one who can heal every illness, even the plague. His rule is not perfect. Some sacrifices…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2780},"Goodbye Note inventory icon",[6],[],[2784],{"kind":31,"name":1066,"path":1067},{"slug":2786,"name":2787,"path":2788,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2789,"excerpts":2790,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":1470,"sellValue":167,"icon":2793,"categories":2795,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2796,"relations":2797},"graveyard-letter","Graveyard Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#graveyard-letter","A somber confession. Nillie finally declares her love for Kert after his death. Lover's Scribbles offers a companion account of a relationship cut short by a missing partner.",[2791],{"title":2787,"text":2792},"Kert, I love you. I’ve loved you since we were kids. I don’t think I’ll ever forgive myself for not telling you this while you were still here. I hope that wherever you are now, you can see this letter. And I hope we’ll meet again over there one day. Yours…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2794},"Graveyard Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[2798],{"kind":31,"name":2799,"path":2800},"Lover's Scribbles","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#lovers-scribbles",{"slug":2802,"name":2803,"path":2804,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2805,"excerpts":2806,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":331,"sellValue":66,"icon":2809,"categories":2812,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2813,"relations":2814},"greifberg-or-the-finest-fortress-of-the-carpathians","Greifberg, or the Finest Fortress of the Carpathians","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#greifberg-or-the-finest-fortress-of-the-carpathians","Written under the patronage of the old knyaz. The account presents Greifberg as a symbol of Dragosti power and describes the human cost of building it. Read History of Vale Sangora III for the family’s rise; the ending guide covers the playable routes into the castle.",[2807],{"title":2803,"text":2808},"Many visitors, laying eyes upon the mighty fortress of Greifberg looming over the city of Svartrau, gape in disbelief. Impossible, they whisper under their breaths, shaking their heads, how could anyone have erected this tremendous castle at such dizzying…",{"src":2810,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2811},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBN5.webp","Greifberg, or the Finest Fortress of the Carpathians inventory icon",[6],[],[2815,2818],{"kind":31,"name":2816,"path":2817},"The Dragosti succession","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#history-of-vale-sangora-vol-3",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":2820,"name":2821,"path":2822,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2823,"excerpts":2824,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":273,"icon":2827,"categories":2829,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2830,"relations":2831},"guards-orders","Guard's Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#guards-orders","A harsh reminder about guards's duties. Vierg tells the guards to stop making exceptions and enforce the orders they have already received. His demand for obedience contrasts with Skender’s plague decree, which spells out the people to be confined and the punishments to be imposed.",[2825],{"title":2821,"text":2826},"No more exceptions, no more letting people go because they asked nicely and the weather was bad. You have a job to do and I expect you to do it. It’s not your job to play the judge and decide what’s right or wrong. Your orders are clear; follow them. – Vierg",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2828},"Guard's Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[2832],{"kind":31,"name":2833,"path":2834},"Skender’s plague decree","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#knyaz-skenders-orders",{"slug":2836,"name":2837,"path":2838,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2839,"excerpts":2840,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":167,"icon":2844,"categories":2846,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2847,"relations":2848},"guards-report","Guard's Report","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#guards-report","Describes the operations of a man named Andrei. Duje identifies the butcher’s shop near Svartrau’s Eastern Gate as Andrei’s hideout and reports suspected silver trading. He also says the local watch has been told to leave it alone. This gives a concrete building and person to connect with Trouble with Silver and Andrei’s later story.",[2841],{"title":2842,"text":2843},"A Guard's Report","Sergeant, As ordered, for the last couple days I've kept an eye on the butcher’s shop near the Eastern Gate. You were right – it’s just a front. A man named Andrei and his men are using the place as their hideout. I believe that they are buying and selling…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2845},"Guard's Report inventory icon",[6],[],[2849,2852],{"kind":31,"name":2850,"path":2851},"Trouble with Silver","\u002Fquests#trouble-with-silver",{"kind":31,"name":2853,"path":2854},"Andrei","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fandrei",{"slug":2856,"name":2857,"path":2858,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2859,"excerpts":2860,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":21,"sellValue":201,"icon":2863,"categories":2866,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2867,"relations":2868},"habeas-sanguinem","Habeas Sanguinem","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#habeas-sanguinem","The legal foundation of Brencis's regime. Brencis’s decree sets a monthly blood tithe of one pint, collected at mass from residents over eighteen, and offers communion wine containing vrakhiri blood in return. It also promises lawful judgement before execution and draining. The Charter of Rights places this covenant within the regime’s wider legal promises.",[2861],{"title":2857,"text":2862},"I, Brencis, Knyaz of Vale Sangora, hereby declare that no Inhabitant of the Valley shall ever be executed and drained of their blood but by lawful judgement and laws of the land. Blood shall be collected as a tithe, on a monthly basis, during masses. Each…",{"src":2864,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2865},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBN6.webp","Habeas Sanguinem inventory icon",[6],[],[2869,2871,2872],{"kind":31,"name":2870,"path":1010},"The wider Charter of Rights",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":2874,"name":2480,"path":2481,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2875,"excerpts":2876,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":1470,"sellValue":273,"icon":2880,"categories":2883,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2884,"relations":2885},"half-burnt-letter-from-c","Parts of this letter are forever lost... but not all of it. The surviving fragments connect the mines, silver ore and arrowheads with resistance to the vrakhiri. Read it with the Field Report, which explicitly describes the manumits moving silver arrowheads and provisions through hidden caches.",[2877],{"title":2878,"text":2879},"Half-Burnt Letter From C.","Brothe... The hour ... I trust all ... at the mines. We ... ore ... for weapons... for hope. With enough silver ... a message ... carved into every arrowhead ... no longer theirs to bleed. Lead the me ... No grand shows ... risks. C...",{"src":2881,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2882},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_Burnt_Letter.webp","Half-Burnt Letter from C. inventory icon",[6],[],[2886],{"kind":31,"name":2887,"path":2469},"Manumit supply caches",{"slug":2889,"name":2890,"path":2891,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2892,"excerpts":2893,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":167,"icon":2897,"categories":2899,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2900,"relations":2901},"half-burnt-letter-from-m","Half-Burnt Letter from M.","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#half-burnt-letter-from-m","Parts of this letter are forever lost... but not all of it. This damaged letter mentions a delivery within three nights, guard patrols near the mill and a wish to keep Renna uninvolved. It provides context for the disrupted mill supplies without giving a complete delivery schedule.",[2894],{"title":2895,"text":2896},"Half-Burnt Letter From M.","Cousin, I’ll be bringing ... your way within three nights’ time. ... with the guards patrolling ... to the mill. Besides, Renna’s getting ... don’t want to involve her. Se ... n, Me...",{"src":2881,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2898},"Half-Burnt Letter from M. inventory icon",[6],[],[2902,2905],{"kind":31,"name":2903,"path":2904},"The missing mill delivery","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#missing-delivery",{"kind":31,"name":1776,"path":1777},{"slug":2907,"name":1808,"path":1809,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2908,"excerpts":2909,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":167,"icon":2913,"categories":2915,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2916,"relations":2917},"hanged-mans-letter","The author didn't want to live in the vrakhiri world. The writer rejects both Skender's former rule and the vrakhiri's blood communion. The note explains his despair at the valley's change of rulers; Farewell Letter presents Allia's similar rejection of the blood mass.",[2910],{"title":2911,"text":2912},"A Hanged Man's Letter","To whomever finds this note, I’m done. This is a life not worth living – we are all just tossed around from misery to misery. First Skender, then the plague and now these creatures that claim to be the Lord’s messengers. They drink our blood and call it holy…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2914},"Hanged Man's Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[2918,2919],{"kind":31,"name":1066,"path":1067},{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":2921,"name":2922,"path":2923,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2924,"excerpts":2925,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":167,"icon":2929,"categories":2931,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2932,"relations":2933},"hastily-scribbled-note","Hastily Scribbled Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#hastily-scribbled-note","Not a happy ending to a partnership. Marko's hiding-place clue is a fallen tree west of where he left the note; the chest is nearby. He tells Gozdav to mislead Pavel and collect the loot later. Keep the westward direction relative to the note's location.",[2926],{"title":2927,"text":2928},"Note about Hidden Loot","Gozdav, The loot is ours, and I don’t feel like sharing it with Pavel. That shit-stain did nothing to help us – and it was his fault that we almost got caught! So I’ve hidden the chest – sorry to do it while you’re both asleep, but you know that the bastard…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2930},"Hastily Scribbled Note inventory icon",[6],[],[2934],{"kind":31,"name":2935,"path":2936},"Note to Dim","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#note-to-dim",{"slug":2938,"name":2939,"path":2940,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2941,"excerpts":2942,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":124,"sellValue":252,"icon":2945,"categories":2947,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2948,"relations":2949},"herbalists-journal","Herbalist's Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#herbalists-journal","Notes written down by a keen herbalist. The herbalist finds a plant by following a snake and later a hedgehog, then grows a new specimen from its surviving seed. His tests fail to make it open locks, despite the razkovniche legend. He later credits it with keeping him free of the plague, tracing how his interpretation of the plant changes over time.",[2943],{"title":2939,"text":2944},"I have no doubt that I've found what I’ve been looking for. Admittedly, when it comes to its looks, the plant is nothing like the legends say. It looks much more… it’s hard to describe… more predatory. If a plant can even look like that? But everything else…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2946},"Herbalist's Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[2950,2953],{"kind":31,"name":2951,"path":2952},"Razkovniche Plant","\u002Fitems\u002Frazkovniche-plant",{"kind":31,"name":2954,"path":2955},"Razkovniche Seeds","\u002Fitems\u002Frazkovniche-seeds",{"slug":2957,"name":2958,"path":2959,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2960,"excerpts":2961,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":167,"icon":2965,"categories":2967,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2968,"relations":2969},"hermits-journal","Hermit's Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#hermits-journal","Mouldy and old. Brencis's soldiers want the hermit to abandon his hut because it lies beside their new camp. His refusal explains the dispute over the cottage and the expanding military perimeter.",[2962],{"title":2963,"text":2964},"Hermit’s Journal","(...) Some people came by the other day. Soldiers. At first I was surprised, but quite pleased – haven’t had a guest in many, many days. My mood quickly soured, though. They said they served the new Knyaz, Brencis. I stay out of the worldly affairs, but even…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2966},"Hermit's Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[2970,2971],{"kind":31,"name":527,"path":528},{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":2973,"name":2974,"path":2975,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":2976,"excerpts":2977,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1024,"sellValue":824,"icon":2980,"categories":2983,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":2984,"relations":2985},"history-of-the-augurs","History of the Augurs","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#history-of-the-augurs","Battered, but still readable. This text traces the Augurs’ religious role back through Rome to the Etruscans and emphasises their guarded knowledge. Read it alongside Secret History IV for the collection’s interest in older cultures and traces that predate the current valley rulers.",[2978],{"title":2974,"text":2979},"Rome lasted for over a thousand years, and the order of the Augurs, its highest priests, is older still. The art they practised – of reading gods’ wishes and will – was invented by the Etruscans, and whence the Etruscans came, no one knows for sure. Some…",{"src":2981,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":2982},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBB10.webp","History of the Augurs inventory icon",[6],[],[2986,2989],{"kind":31,"name":2987,"path":2988},"Ancient remains in Secret History IV","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-iv",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":2991,"name":2992,"path":2993,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":2994,"excerpts":2995,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":2999,"sellValue":201,"icon":3000,"categories":3003,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3004,"relations":3005},"history-of-vale-sangora-vol-1","History of Vale Sangora, Vol. 1","\u002Fitems\u002Fhistory-of-vale-sangora-vol-1","A sweeping account of the valley's recent past.",[2996],{"title":2997,"text":2998},"History of Vale Sangora: Part One","Dacian Boarescu was the first ruler of Vale Sangora to be granted the title of knyaz. His rule was benevolent and peaceful, focused on strengthening the valley, but it ended quite abruptly. In AD 1148, to respond to Pope Eugene III’s call for a crusade, a…",54,{"src":3001,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3002},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBN7.webp","History of Vale Sangora, Vol. 1 inventory icon",[6],[],[3006],{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":3008,"name":3009,"path":3010,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3011,"excerpts":3012,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":1343,"sellValue":48,"icon":3016,"categories":3018,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3019,"relations":3020},"history-of-vale-sangora-vol-2","History of Vale Sangora, Vol. 2","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#history-of-vale-sangora-vol-2","A sweeping account of the valley's recent past. This volume follows the conflict between Alexandru Boarescu and Bishop Athanasius after Tiberiu’s death in 1213. The silver profits promised to the Holy See connect the political settlement to the earlier mining boom.",[3013],{"title":3014,"text":3015},"History of Vale Sangora: Part Two","The Church’s power in Vale Sangora grew when Athanasius of Parlita became the new bishop. One of his crowning achievements was to expand the Svartrau Cathedral complex to also include an almshouse for the poor. This was funded by Knyaz Tiberiu, who was said…",{"src":2810,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3017},"History of Vale Sangora, Vol. 2 inventory icon",[6],[],[3021,3024],{"kind":31,"name":3022,"path":3023},"The silver economy behind the conflict","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#history-of-vale-sangora-the-silver-rush",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":3026,"name":3027,"path":2817,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3028,"excerpts":3029,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":3033,"sellValue":252,"icon":3034,"categories":3037,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3038,"relations":3039},"history-of-vale-sangora-vol-3","History of Vale Sangora, Vol. 3","A sweeping account of the valley's recent past. The succession runs from Ovidiu’s victory in 1263 through Stelian and Skender to Brencis in 1347. Its closing praise of Brencis is the chronicler’s stance; Secret History VII and XII provide a contrasting account of how rulers shape their histories.",[3030],{"title":3031,"text":3032},"History of Vale Sangora: Part Three","As history teaches us, no rule can last forever. The Boarescu family finally lost their hold over Vale Sangora when Ovidiu Dragosti defeated their forces in the Battle of Maragir in AD 1263. Using his new position and political clout, he made sure that his…",42,{"src":3035,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3036},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBN10.webp","History of Vale Sangora, Vol. 3 inventory icon",[6],[],[3040,3043],{"kind":31,"name":3041,"path":3042},"The commissioned history in Secret History XII","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-xii",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":3045,"name":3046,"path":3023,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3047,"excerpts":3048,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":1851,"sellValue":252,"icon":3051,"categories":3054,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3055,"relations":3056},"history-of-vale-sangora-the-silver-rush","History of Vale Sangora: The Silver Rush","Dry but informative. The discovery of silver explains the arrival of settlers, the Boarescu family’s wealth and Svartrau’s growth. It supplies the economic beginning of the political history continued in volumes II and III.",[3049],{"title":3046,"text":3050},"For many centuries, Vale Sangora was considered to be a place of no importance to the outside world. No major trade routes crossed these lands and natural barriers that secluded the valley kept most people at bay. And then the silver was discovered. As it…",{"src":3052,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3053},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBN11.webp","History of Vale Sangora: The Silver Rush inventory icon",[6],[],[3057,3059],{"kind":31,"name":3058,"path":3010},"History of Vale Sangora II",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":3061,"name":3062,"path":1172,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3063,"excerpts":3064,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":124,"sellValue":48,"icon":3067,"categories":3069,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3070,"relations":3071},"hollow-hearts","Hollow-Hearts","Makes your skin crawl. Crimson moths precede a night in which villagers lose their hearts. Their emotions fade, and they begin stealing other people’s hearts in a futile attempt to replace their own. The Moth Omen shares the connection between moths and an approaching supernatural presence.",[3065],{"title":3062,"text":3066},"As the sun fell and the sky bruised purple, crimson moths filled the air. They clung to doorways and windows, silent as dusk itself. And in the night, something came. No one saw it. No one heard it. But by morning, the chests of the villagers were void, and…",{"src":2721,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3068},"Hollow-Hearts inventory icon",[6],[],[3072,3074],{"kind":31,"name":3073,"path":2178},"The moth warning",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":3076,"name":3077,"path":3078,"detail":13,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":13,"answered":13,"description":3079,"excerpts":3080,"rarity":18,"material":18,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":233,"sellValue":48,"icon":3081,"categories":3084,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3085,"relations":3086},"horsemen-of-the-apocalypse","Horsemen of the Apocalypse","\u002Fitems#horsemen-of-the-apocalypse","Hastily copied woodcut.",[],{"src":3082,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3083},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBY7.webp","Horsemen of the Apocalypse inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":3088,"name":3089,"path":3090,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3091,"excerpts":3092,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1432,"sellValue":66,"icon":3096,"categories":3099,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3100,"relations":3101},"how-to-know-if-a-man-loves-you","How to Know if a Man Loves You","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#how-to-know-if-a-man-loves-you","Sangora's bestselling book. The love-divination ritual uses three hairs in cooled rosemary brew left overnight: floating hairs mean affection, while sinking hairs mean rejection in the writer’s account. Around Animals collects comparable household superstitions rather than a story about a named couple.",[3093],{"title":3094,"text":3095},"To Know if the Man Loves You","For those who need to know if a man loves them or ever will, there is a way to see. Pluck three hairs from his head without him knowing – or gather them from his clothes. But be careful with those strays, lest you use another man's hair or that of a horse!…",{"src":3097,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3098},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBBL9.webp","How to Know if a Man Loves You inventory icon",[6],[],[3102,3104],{"kind":31,"name":3103,"path":872},"Other household superstitions",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":3106,"name":3107,"path":3108,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3109,"excerpts":3110,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":823,"sellValue":252,"icon":3114,"categories":3116,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3117,"relations":3118},"how-to-run-a-prosperous-manor","How to Run a Prosperous Manor","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#how-to-run-a-prosperous-manor","Earmarked and greasy. The author recommends punishing peasants before any offence while keeping them healthy enough to work. This exposes the violence beneath the ideal hierarchy described in On Ruling a Realm; the two documents approach the same social order from theory and estate management.",[3111],{"title":3112,"text":3113},"How to Run a Prosperous Manor – An Overseer's Guide","Lazy and insidious by their very nature, peasants must constantly be disciplined. And not just after their crime, but before it! That way they shall remember the punishment for misbehaviour. Of course, we must still keep them in (relatively) good shape, or…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3115},"How to Run a Prosperous Manor inventory icon",[6],[],[3119,3121],{"kind":31,"name":3120,"path":2319},"The three-estates doctrine",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":3123,"name":3124,"path":2211,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3125,"excerpts":3126,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":1851,"sellValue":252,"icon":3129,"categories":3131,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3132,"relations":3133},"how-uktash-met-nassur","How Uktash Met Nassur","Likely one of the last extant copies. Uktash travels east and is eaten by Nassur, the silver serpent-god. His brothers later find a silver vein formed from the serpent’s shed skin, enriching Urduk and helping protect it from vrakhiri. Mormo’s tale gives a different mythic explanation for silver’s role against blood-feeders.",[3127],{"title":3124,"text":3128},"The old King of Urduk was dying. He had three sons, all of them brave warriors, all fit to be their father's heir. So the king ordered all three of them to go into the world and be tested by fate. Two older sons went to the west, where there were other great…",{"src":1060,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3130},"How Uktash Met Nassur inventory icon",[6],[],[3134,3137],{"kind":31,"name":3135,"path":3136},"Another origin of silver’s power","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#mormo-and-the-tale-of-cursed-silver",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":3139,"name":3140,"path":3141,"detail":13,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":13,"answered":13,"description":3142,"excerpts":3143,"rarity":18,"material":18,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":1024,"sellValue":824,"icon":3144,"categories":3147,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3148,"relations":3149},"human-anatomy","Human Anatomy","\u002Fitems#human-anatomy","Xanthe's book about the human body.",[],{"src":3145,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3146},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBW15.webp","Human Anatomy inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":3151,"name":1544,"path":1545,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3152,"excerpts":3153,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":167,"icon":3156,"categories":3158,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3159,"relations":3160},"hunters-journal","Notes of a huntsman bested by his prey. The hunter first finds elongated, human-like tracks, then sees a distorted humanoid stalking his camp at night. After snares fail, he plans to leave his bedroll as a decoy and watch from a tree.",[3154],{"title":1544,"text":3155},"Day 9 of the Autumn Hunt It has been a good year. The woods are quiet, rabbits are plentiful, and deer regularly come to the river. Today, I tracked a fine buck and brought him down with a clean shot. Then I lucked into a doe as well. Dressing them both will…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3157},"Hunter's Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[3161],{"kind":31,"name":1532,"path":1533},{"slug":3163,"name":3164,"path":3165,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3166,"excerpts":3167,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":167,"icon":3170,"categories":3172,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3173,"relations":3174},"hunting-order","Hunting Order","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#hunting-order","Mentions a lizard-like beast sighted in Briar Sloughs. Commander Resnik places the lizard-like beast in southern Briar Sloughs and orders its carcass brought to Stoneward Post. This is the letter's geographical lead; Lizard Hunter's Note gives a separate observation of the larger brood mother's leaping attack.",[3168],{"title":3164,"text":3169},"A lizard-like beast has been sighted in the southern reaches of Briar Sloughs. We believe it’s responsible for the disappearance of several messengers and at least one of our patrols. You are ordered to raise a hunting party. Beyond weapons, take hounds,…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3171},"Hunting Order inventory icon",[6],[],[3175,3178],{"kind":31,"name":3176,"path":3177},"Lizard Hunter's Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#lizard-hunters-note",{"kind":31,"name":3179,"path":3180},"Briar Sloughs","\u002Flocations\u002Fbriar-sloughs",{"slug":3182,"name":190,"path":191,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3183,"excerpts":3184,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":167,"icon":3188,"categories":3190,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3191,"relations":3192},"iancus-note","Iancu's letter to his friend Ciprian. Iancu tells Ciprian that he is leaving Parlita to climb Balaur and deliberately avoids a farewell that might stop him. He imagines returning as the beast’s slayer. Leontin’s Letter to Iancu reveals the personal reason behind the journey: a report connecting a beast sighting with his parents’ disappearance.",[3185],{"title":3186,"text":3187},"Iancu's letter to Ciprian","Ciprian – my dearest friend*, I'll have to leave Parlita for a few days. I'm heading for the mountains, to reach the Balaur's peak! Yes, I know what you must be thinking now. Dear Iancu fell on his big thick head and went mad, right? I'd bet a hundred…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3189},"Iancu's Note inventory icon",[6],[],[3193],{"kind":31,"name":176,"path":177},{"slug":3195,"name":2496,"path":2497,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":3196,"excerpts":3197,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":3200,"categories":3202,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3203,"relations":3204},"initial-instructions","A task from the manumits, concerning messages from their secret stashes. Bring every message collected from the stashes to the tree in the cemetery by the North Gate. Final Instructions supplies the next step at the hollow tree and the following-day return time.",[3198],{"title":2496,"text":3199},"Brother Coen, Our comrade who oversaw the stashes has been captured and executed. Now, you must gather every message from every stash and bring them to the tree at the cemetery by the North Gate. You shall find further instructions there. And be discreet…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3201},"Initial Instructions inventory icon",[6],[],[3205],{"kind":31,"name":2484,"path":2485},{"slug":3207,"name":3208,"path":3209,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3210,"excerpts":3211,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":2999,"sellValue":48,"icon":3214,"categories":3216,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3217,"relations":3218},"ink-stained-journal","Ink-Stained Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#ink-stained-journal","It belonged to Xanthe's apprentice. Xanthe’s apprentice goes to investigate uriashi stones with two guides and four soldiers. Her account makes clear that she expects the guides to oppose her purpose; the Unsent Report gives the escort’s version of the same arrangement.",[3212],{"title":3208,"text":3213},"Everything is different now. The girl who feared persecution; who trembled at night knowing that if her own family found out about the gifts she possessed, there would be only fire awaiting her… well, that girl is gone now. I can wield my power openly and if…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3215},"Ink-Stained Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[3219,3222],{"kind":31,"name":3220,"path":3221},"The escort’s report","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#unsent-report",{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":3224,"name":3225,"path":3226,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3227,"excerpts":3228,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":273,"icon":3232,"categories":3234,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3235,"relations":3236},"inspirational-message","Inspirational Message","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#inspirational-message","Letter meant to boost the morale of Ambrus's soldiers. Sergeant Chenko orders blood-cellar guards to keep their weapons ready, raise the alarm at unusual activity and request reinforcements when needed. His emphasis on protecting the stores complements Ambrus’s later missive, which names Coen as the attacker and admits that the blood supply is running low.",[3229],{"title":3230,"text":3231},"Blood Cellar Duty","Soldiers, In this day and age, blood is the most valued of currencies – more precious than even silver or gold. Therefore, we must guard it with utmost dedication and care. When assigned to blood cellar duty, make sure that you remain vigilant at all times…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3233},"Inspirational Message inventory icon",[6],[],[3237,3240],{"kind":31,"name":3238,"path":3239},"Missive from Ambrus","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#missive-from-ambrus",{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":3242,"name":3243,"path":3244,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3245,"excerpts":3246,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":167,"icon":3250,"categories":3252,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3253,"relations":3254},"instructions","Instructions","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#instructions","Signed by one of the manumits. Drogos orders an extra, secret batch of Skender's banners and sashes from a tailor. Compare Search for Manumit Caches: its guards also identify the rebels through a symbol resembling the former ruler's family sigil.",[3247],{"title":3248,"text":3249},"Instructions to Tailor","To Master Tailor, I'm writing on C.'s behalf. Apart from the batch for the official shop, we'd like to request some more items off the record – and quickly. First off, we need banners bearing Knyaz Skender’s coat of arms. Refer to the attached drawing.…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3251},"Instructions inventory icon",[6],[],[3255,3258],{"kind":31,"name":3256,"path":3257},"Search for Manumit Caches","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#search-for-manumit-caches",{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":3260,"name":3261,"path":3262,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":3263,"excerpts":3264,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":823,"sellValue":22,"icon":3267,"categories":3270,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3271,"relations":3272},"instructions-for-carrion-collectors","Instructions for Carrion Collectors","\u002Fitems\u002Finstructions-for-carrion-collectors","Law issued by the vrakhiri.",[3265],{"title":3261,"text":3266},"1. All carrion – that is either animal carcasses or dead human bodies – must be removed from Svartrau IMMEDIATELY. 2. If a citizen doesn't want to hand over a carcass, you shall incarcerate them. They shall then be whipped and put on public display to do…",{"src":3268,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3269},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBN1.webp","Instructions for Carrion Collectors inventory icon",[6],[],[3273],{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":3275,"name":3276,"path":3277,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3278,"excerpts":3279,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":107,"icon":3282,"categories":3284,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3285,"relations":3286},"instructions-for-the-hound-keeper","Instructions for the Hound-Keeper","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#instructions-for-the-hound-keeper","A note to the man who handles the castle hounds from his superior. The warning ties the hellhounds’ agitation to the scent of blood during Brencis’s visit to the pit. On Hellhounds supplies a longer account of their feeding and their relationship with a keeper.",[3280],{"title":3276,"text":3281},"Lad! I heard the knyaz is coming to the pit today, so watch out for the hounds. With the scent of blood so heavy in the air, I bet they’ll go rabid again, just like before. I'm not patching you up this time, so keep the beasts in check. Just don't spare them…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3283},"Instructions for the Hound-Keeper inventory icon",[6],[],[3287],{"kind":31,"name":3288,"path":3289},"On Hellhounds","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#on-hellhounds",{"slug":3291,"name":2156,"path":2157,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3292,"excerpts":3293,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":3297,"categories":3299,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3300,"relations":3301},"instructions-from-ambrus","Letter concerning leech collection. Ambrus explains that live leeches produce the spittle needed to store blood, so collectors must deliver them quickly and meet their quotas. The Urgent Letter adds a seasonal deadline: gather as many as possible before the marshes freeze. Directives from Ambrus describe where the spittle enters the storage process.",[3294],{"title":3295,"text":3296},"Instructions from Boyar Ambrus","To all my subordinates, I am aware that, in the light of the many challenges facing our sacred covenant, leech collection may seem like a trivial pursuit. But make no mistake: these critters are essential for storing blood and hence the nourishment of your…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3298},"Instructions from Ambrus inventory icon",[6],[],[3302,3305,3306],{"kind":31,"name":3303,"path":3304},"Urgent Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#urgent-letter",{"kind":31,"name":2143,"path":2144},{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":3308,"name":3309,"path":3310,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":3311,"excerpts":3312,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":3315,"categories":3317,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3318,"relations":3319},"instructions-from-anca","Instructions from Anca","\u002Fitems\u002Finstructions-from-anca","Written in beautiful cursive.",[3313],{"title":3309,"text":3314},"Brew three scoops with water that's hot, but not quite boiling. Give to Esme before mass, then twice daily.",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3316},"Instructions from Anca inventory icon",[6],[],[3320,3321],{"kind":31,"name":1294,"path":1295},{"kind":31,"name":3322,"path":3323},"Esme","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fesme",{"slug":3325,"name":3326,"path":3327,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3328,"excerpts":3329,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":167,"icon":3332,"categories":3334,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3335,"relations":3336},"instructions-from-codrin","Instructions from Codrin","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#instructions-from-codrin","Written in exquisite cursive. Iulian Codrin authorises the seizure of five carts to replace worn blood-transport vehicles. The letter shows his role in keeping Ambrus’s collection network moving. Read it with the Ledger, which records four barrels being sent to Codrin and the remaining stock being written off as lost.",[3330],{"title":3326,"text":3331},"In the name of Boyar Ambrus, I hereby authorise you to commandeer five carts, to be used for blood transports. The carts currently in use are in dire need of repairs due to constant use. I take this opportunity to remind you that blood collection and…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3333},"Instructions from Codrin inventory icon",[6],[],[3337,3340,3343],{"kind":31,"name":3338,"path":3339},"Ledger","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#ledger",{"kind":31,"name":3341,"path":3342},"Note About Codrin","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#note-about-codrin",{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":3345,"name":3346,"path":3347,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3348,"excerpts":3349,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":273,"icon":3353,"categories":3355,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3356,"relations":3357},"instructions-from-xanthe","Instructions from Xanthe","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#instructions-from-xanthe","Written by the boyaress herself. Xanthe’s list specifies a person aged fifteen to twenty, five to six feet tall, no heavier than ten stone and fair-complexioned; hair colour is unrestricted. The requirements define the physical profile she wants her subordinates to find.",[3350],{"title":3351,"text":3352},"Instructions from Boyaress Xanthe","Age – between fifteen and twenty Height – five to six feet Weight – no more than ten stone Complexion – fair Hair colour – any",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3354},"Instructions from Xanthe inventory icon",[6],[],[3358],{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":3360,"name":3361,"path":3362,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3363,"excerpts":3364,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":167,"icon":3368,"categories":3370,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3371,"relations":3372},"instructions-written-out-of-desperation","Instructions Written out of Desperation","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#instructions-written-out-of-desperation","Despite the situation, people still try to find help. Emilian sends Znamir, Alexandru and Dimitrie to seek help outside Vale Sangora, providing money and suggesting bribery, mountain paths or a departing merchant cart. Folded Letter shares the goal of bringing the valley's situation to outsiders.",[3365],{"title":3366,"text":3367},"Instructions to Look for Help","Znamir, We can’t win this fight alone. The vrakhiri are simply too powerful, and they sway the loyalty of too many people. We must look for help outside. Take Alexandru and Dimitrie with you – they’re trustworthy and smart lads – as well as this pouch of…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3369},"Instructions Written out of Desperation inventory icon",[6],[],[3373],{"kind":31,"name":1701,"path":1702},{"slug":3375,"name":3376,"path":3377,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3378,"excerpts":3379,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":273,"icon":3382,"categories":3384,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3385,"relations":3386},"instructions-shipping","Instructions: Shipping","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#instructions-shipping","Sheds light on Bakir's operations. The shipping orders require free alcohol to be distributed across ages and social classes until it runs out. Anyone obstructing the distribution is to be sent for draining, while soldiers are forbidden to drink the cargo. Bakir’s Letter of Reprimand explains the political purpose of keeping the population supplied.",[3380],{"title":3243,"text":3381},"Alcohol is to be handed out indiscriminately, to people of all ages and stations, until supplies are exhausted. Anyone interrupting the process or harassing men assigned to this duty is to be restrained and handed over for draining. Soldiers caught dipping…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3383},"Instructions: Shipping inventory icon",[6],[],[3387,3388,3389],{"kind":31,"name":2159,"path":2160},{"kind":31,"name":628,"path":629},{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":3391,"name":3392,"path":3393,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3394,"excerpts":3395,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":313,"sellValue":201,"icon":3398,"categories":3401,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3402,"relations":3403},"intel-on-crake","Intel on Crake","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#intel-on-crake","Communication between Brencis's soldiers. Rateld infiltrates a recruitment meeting and overhears Crake called an outsider. Lieutenant Abod turns that single word into several theories about his origins. The useful distinction is between the overheard description and the officer’s guesses; On Crake’s Identity records a suspect the army actually dismisses.",[3396],{"title":3392,"text":3397},"Captain, One of my men managed to discover something interesting about the manumit leader, the man they call ‘Crake’. Sergeant Rateld was able to pose as someone looking to join the rebels and was contacted by a pair of recruiters. They didn’t tell Rateld…",{"src":3399,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3400},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBG3.webp","Intel on Crake inventory icon",[6],[],[3404,3406,3407],{"kind":31,"name":3405,"path":2530},"The suspect ruled out by the army",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":2533,"path":2534},{"slug":3409,"name":3410,"path":3411,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3412,"excerpts":3413,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":3416,"categories":3418,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3419,"relations":3420},"interrogation-protocols","Interrogation Protocols","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#interrogation-protocols","Makes one's stomach churn. The record follows Rutger, Aldin and Gert through repeated torture and draining. Rutger eventually accuses his mother; Aldin maintains his innocence and Gert loses consciousness. Branko is listed as cooperating immediately. Aldin and Gert’s Thank-you Note continues their story after being freed.",[3414],{"title":3410,"text":3415},"Rutger of Silberstein Day One Nail-pulling Half-hour on the breaking wheel Draining Maintains innocence Day Two Full hour on the breaking wheel Teeth-pulling (3) Draining Maintains innocence Day Three Thirty lashes Teeth-pulling (2) Incriminated his mother,…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3417},"Interrogation Protocols inventory icon",[6],[],[3421],{"kind":31,"name":3422,"path":3423},"Thank-You Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#thank-you-note",{"slug":3425,"name":3426,"path":3427,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3428,"excerpts":3429,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":167,"icon":3433,"categories":3435,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3436,"relations":3437},"intriguing-letter","Intriguing Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#intriguing-letter","Addressed to Vlad. Mert tells Vlad to suspend deliveries of the substance they call “flour” because he thinks he is being watched, and asks him to warn Crake. The Smeared Note identifies Mert the miller as a supporter willing to hide Novak from Bakir’s rebel hunters, connecting the two messages to the manumit network.",[3430],{"title":3431,"text":3432},"Letter from Mert","Vlad, Something is off. I think I'm being watched. No more 'flour' for now. Stay away until told otherwise. Warn Crake. Mert",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3434},"Intriguing Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[3438,3441,3442,3443],{"kind":31,"name":3439,"path":3440},"Smeared Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#smeared-note",{"kind":31,"name":2533,"path":2534},{"kind":31,"name":1773,"path":1774},{"kind":31,"name":753,"path":754},{"slug":3445,"name":3446,"path":3447,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3448,"excerpts":3449,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":1305,"sellValue":273,"icon":3452,"categories":3454,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3455,"relations":3456},"investigation-orders","Investigation Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#investigation-orders","They mention some shady dealings. Pergis has lost contact with a meat delivery sent to the kobold caves after rotten pig hearts were added to the load. Ardi is being sent to find out what happened. Read it with Meat Transport Orders and Orders — Carrion for the soldiers’ use of food deliveries to manage kobolds.",[3450],{"title":3446,"text":3451},"Ardi, Take your team and check what happened to the last meat transport to the kobold caves. I haven’t heard back from them and I made it exceedingly clear I needed to get a delivery report to pass to the commander. The cave rats were being unruly around…",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3453},"Investigation Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[3457,3460],{"kind":31,"name":3458,"path":3459},"Meat Transport Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#meat-transport-orders",{"kind":31,"name":3461,"path":3462},"Orders — Carrion","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#orders-carrion",{"slug":3464,"name":3465,"path":3466,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3467,"excerpts":3468,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":1470,"sellValue":167,"icon":3471,"categories":3473,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3474,"relations":3475},"invitation-from-bakir","Invitation from Bakir","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#invitation-from-bakir","Only a fool would take it at face value. Bakir answers someone seeking eternal life with a meeting invitation: the following night, beneath the old oak beside a pond in the Silts. The letter records that particular rendezvous and his promise to change the recipient’s life. His public Call offers another example of how he draws people into his plans.",[3469],{"title":3465,"text":3470},"My dearest friend, Your story moved me very deeply – truly! Your dreams of eternal life, so relatable and so touchingly described! I admit I shed a tear or two – such is the power of your words. But! There shall be a happy ending to your story, a fulfillment…",{"src":2589,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3472},"Invitation from Bakir inventory icon",[6],[],[3476,3477],{"kind":31,"name":906,"path":907},{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":3479,"name":3480,"path":3481,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3482,"excerpts":3483,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":273,"icon":3487,"categories":3489,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3490,"relations":3491},"isbrands-letter","Isbrand's Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#isbrands-letter","A harsh letter written by Isbrand. Isbrand objects to Brencis settling in Vale Sangora, announces that his overseas business is finished and says he is returning. His final warning rules out a third chance, establishing a prior history between the two and an approaching confrontation.",[3484],{"title":3485,"text":3486},"Letter from Isbrand","Brencis, I did not appreciate the notice of you settling in Vale Sangora. I certainly hope the choice is a mere coincidence or a geographical preference for the mountains. My business overseas is concluded. I am headed back and you will meet me soon. Make no…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3488},"Isbrand's Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[3492,3495],{"kind":31,"name":3493,"path":3494},"Isbrand","\u002Fbosses\u002Fisbrand",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":3497,"name":1651,"path":1652,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3498,"excerpts":3499,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":823,"sellValue":824,"icon":3502,"categories":3504,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3505,"relations":3506},"journal","A passionate address to the people. The group intends to attempt the border crossing at dawn. Read Checklist alongside this entry: it records the ropes, food, water, money, blankets and equipment prepared for the journey.",[3500],{"title":1651,"text":3501},"So close to the border now. We make attempt with dawn. I'm writing this note, so someone reads it should we fail. We're not cattle. We have dignity. There is yet hope. Oppose the vrakhiri however you may: run away, fight, hide. But do not surrender. Do not…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3503},"Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[3507],{"kind":31,"name":1639,"path":1640},{"slug":3509,"name":3510,"path":3511,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3512,"excerpts":3513,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":167,"icon":3517,"categories":3519,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3520,"relations":3521},"journal-fragment","Journal Fragment","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#journal-fragment","Just one page, but its contents are interesting. The writer has carried a chest of gold to a peak but can no longer find the descent. The entry ties the hidden wealth to the climb and the author's predicament at the summit.",[3514],{"title":3515,"text":3516},"Journal's Fragment","Day 12 My hands are bleeding, and my feet feel numb. I’m tired, cold, and hungry. But the chest is safe here, and that’s all that matters. The vrakhiri won’t be able to put their bloody claws on my gold anymore. No thief would ever reach this peak either.…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3518},"Journal Fragment inventory icon",[6],[],[3522],{"kind":31,"name":1688,"path":1689},{"slug":3524,"name":3525,"path":3526,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":3527,"excerpts":3528,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":273,"icon":3531,"categories":3533,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3534,"relations":3535},"juttas-contract","Jutta's Contract","\u002Fitems\u002Fjuttas-contract","Signed by one Jutta and Knyaz Brencis.",[3529],{"title":3525,"text":3530},"This contract was agreed upon by Knyaz Brencis, the sole and rightful ruler of Vale Sangora, and Jutta of clan Gedr, an uriash, in Anno Domini 1349, in the presence of witnesses signed below, and stipulates what follows: Jutta of clan Gedr is to track down…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3532},"Jutta's Contract inventory icon",[6],[],[3536],{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":3538,"name":3539,"path":2834,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3540,"excerpts":3541,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":1305,"sellValue":107,"icon":3545,"categories":3547,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3548,"relations":3549},"knyaz-skenders-orders","Knyaz Skender's Orders","Instruction on how to deal with the infected. Skender orders plague sufferers and their families confined inside boarded homes, with weekly inspections and lethal enforcement against concealment or escape. He cites Father Florin’s religious approval. Plague Warning is the short notice posted on one condemned household, putting the general decree into local form.",[3542],{"title":3543,"text":3544},"Burnt Note","To all units, By the authority granted onto me by our Father above, I order the following, effective immediately: - anyone displaying signs of the sickness, irrespective of their station, as well as the family of the affected, are to remain inside their…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3546},"Knyaz Skender's Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[3550,3553,3554],{"kind":31,"name":3551,"path":3552},"Plague Warning","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#plague-warning",{"kind":31,"name":302,"path":303},{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":3556,"name":3557,"path":3558,"detail":13,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":13,"answered":13,"description":3559,"excerpts":3560,"rarity":18,"material":18,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":273,"icon":3561,"categories":3563,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3564,"relations":3565},"kunos-drawing","Kuno's Drawing","\u002Fitems#kunos-drawing","Hastily scribbled.",[],{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3562},"Kuno's Drawing inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":3567,"name":3568,"path":3569,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":3570,"excerpts":3571,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":3575,"categories":3577,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3578,"relations":3579},"last-confession","Last Confession","\u002Fitems\u002Flast-confession","Written confession of Ursula of Laslea.",[3572],{"title":3573,"text":3574},"Ursula's Confession","Dear Lord, and all the Saints, My name is Ursula, and I am dying of the plague. There is no one to tend to me, as all my family have died before me, and there is no one to take my last confession. So, being learned in the art of the letters, I commit my sins…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3576},"Last Confession inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":3581,"name":3582,"path":3583,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3584,"excerpts":3585,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":167,"icon":3588,"categories":3590,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3591,"relations":3592},"last-journal-page","Last Journal Page","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#last-journal-page","A soldier's private confession. The defenders have retreated to a tower with few supplies and no further escape route. Verek tries to hold their morale together, while the diarist privately expects the position to fall.",[3586],{"title":3582,"text":3587},"Day 17 This might be the last page I ever scribble on in my life. I don’t think we can hold this tower, and there is nowhere else left to fall back to. The valley is closed, the mountains are a certain death this time of year, and our supplies are pretty…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3589},"Last Journal Page inventory icon",[6],[],[3593],{"kind":31,"name":3594,"path":3595},"Motivational Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#motivational-letter",{"slug":3597,"name":813,"path":814,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":3598,"excerpts":3599,"rarity":183,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":3603,"categories":3606,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3607,"relations":3608},"last-request","Written by someone who knew their days were numbered. Dawid Breslauer directs the reader to his study in the house beside Neustadt's tower. He hid the saints' statues before they could be destroyed; Appeal continues his request to recover them and restore the shrines.",[3600],{"title":3601,"text":3602},"Letter with Request","I'm leaving this message in the hope that whoever finds it will continue my efforts, should I be apprehended, as is increasingly likely. My name is Dawid Breslauer. I chose Vale Sangora as my home and seeing it fall into the hands of a monster brings me…",{"src":3604,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3605},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBR1.webp","Last Request inventory icon",[6],[],[3609,3610],{"kind":31,"name":800,"path":801},{"kind":31,"name":3611,"path":3612},"Hidden & Safe shrine trail","\u002Fmaps\u002Fvale-sangora#place-938956",{"slug":3614,"name":3338,"path":3339,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3615,"excerpts":3616,"rarity":183,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":3620,"categories":3623,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3624,"relations":3625},"ledger","Documents blood collection from prisoners. The accounts total nine barrels of blood: three from lethally wounded manumits and two each from regular drainings, executions and volunteers. Four go to Iulian Codrin; the other five are recorded as lost in transit. Bakir’s Letter provides the related account of blood diverted from Ambrus to his rival.",[3617],{"title":3618,"text":3619},"Blood Collection","3 barrels collected from lethally wounded manumits 2 barrels from regular drainings 2 barrels from executions 2 barrels from volunteers Of these, 4 barrels sent back to Iulian Codrin, as instructed. The remaining ones marked as lost in transit.",{"src":3621,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3622},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBG13.webp","Ledger inventory icon",[6],[],[3626,3629,3630],{"kind":31,"name":3627,"path":3628},"Letter from Bakir","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-from-bakir",{"kind":31,"name":3326,"path":3327},{"kind":31,"name":3631,"path":3632},"Iulian Codrin","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fiulian-codrin",{"slug":3634,"name":3635,"path":3636,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":3637,"excerpts":3638,"rarity":183,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":3641,"categories":3644,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3645,"relations":3646},"ledger-of-prisoners","Ledger of Prisoners","\u002Fitems\u002Fledger-of-prisoners","Splattered with blood.",[3639],{"title":3635,"text":3640},"Rutger of Silberstein – posession of silver – scheduled for draining Aldin of Maragir – lumberjack – suspicious behaviour, interrogate until he confesses Gert of Maragir – lumberjack – accomplice of the above, interrogate until he confesses Branko of Maragir…",{"src":3642,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3643},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBG16.webp","Ledger of Prisoners inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":3648,"name":3649,"path":3650,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3651,"excerpts":3652,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":842,"sellValue":22,"icon":3655,"categories":3658,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3659,"relations":3660},"legend-about-a-greedy-boy","Legend About a Greedy Boy","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#legend-about-a-greedy-boy","May contain a kernel of truth. The boy enters a hidden passage through a ruined building’s basement and finds an ancient maze beneath Svartrau. He keeps abandoning one treasure for another, becoming trapped by the hope of a better prize. The Forever Stone offers a darker treatment of the urge to pursue ancient hidden things.",[3653],{"title":3649,"text":3654},"There once lived a small boy in Svartrau. His parents were poor and he had many siblings, and so he was always skulking around the city searching for something to eat. Sometimes he would steal a pie cooling off on a window sill, sometimes he’d fight stray…",{"src":3656,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3657},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBBL14.webp","Legend About a Greedy Boy inventory icon",[6],[],[3661,3664],{"kind":31,"name":3662,"path":3663},"Another warning about seeking ancient secrets","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-forever-stone",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":3666,"name":919,"path":920,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":3667,"excerpts":3668,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":3672,"categories":3674,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3675,"relations":3676},"letter-found-in-a-wolf-cave","Written in crude yet clean letters. Tsinna tells Diegis that the clan has reached Schwarzwald and found forests rich in prey and shelter. The message laments the pups growing up away from their ancestral lands while leaving open the hope of a return if vrakhiri rule ends. It supplies the clan’s destination and reason for leaving Sangora.",[3669],{"title":3670,"text":3671},"A Letter Found in a Wolf Cave","Diegis, We have finally arrived in Schwarzwald. Its deep forests will make an excellent new home for us – they're rich both in game and shelter. It’s a shame our pups will not run over their ancestral lands… but who knows? Maybe the vrakhiri's reign over…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3673},"Letter Found in a Wolf Cave inventory icon",[6],[],[3677],{"kind":31,"name":906,"path":907},{"slug":3679,"name":3680,"path":3681,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":13,"description":3682,"excerpts":3683,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":1470,"sellValue":107,"icon":3686,"categories":3688,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3689,"relations":3690},"letter-fragment","Letter Fragment","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-fragment","A short but hopeful note.",[3684],{"title":3680,"text":3685},"May our small joy know his father’s arms before long...",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3687},"Letter Fragment inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":3692,"name":956,"path":957,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3693,"excerpts":3694,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":107,"icon":3697,"categories":3699,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3700,"relations":3701},"letter-from-a-loved-one","A bandit's girl's affectionate correspondence. Mina writes to Nicu, a member of Constantin's gang injured by Racovitza's men. Compare Gheorghe's Instructions to see the orders behind that violence, and Letter of Protection for Xanthe's backing of Racovitza.",[3695],{"title":956,"text":3696},"My Dearest Nicu, I cried all night after having read what Racovitza's men did to you and the lads. I hope that one day the mad thug and all his henchmen rot in Hell for that. I wish I could be with you now and tend to your wounds, but there's so much work at…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3698},"Letter from a Loved One inventory icon",[6],[],[3702,3703],{"kind":31,"name":2730,"path":2731},{"kind":31,"name":3704,"path":3705},"Letter of Protection","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-of-protection",{"slug":3707,"name":3708,"path":3709,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3710,"excerpts":3711,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":1470,"sellValue":167,"icon":3717,"categories":3719,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3720,"relations":3721},"letter-from-ambrus","Letter from Ambrus","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-from-ambrus","A newly turned vrakhir's letter to his lover. Two different documents share this title. In the letter to his lover, Ambrus announces his transformation and promises to visit at the full moon; the order to subordinates instead threatens punishment for failures in blood collection. Rozalia's two letters belong to the personal correspondence.",[3712,3714],{"title":3708,"text":3713},"My Love, By now, you will have heard of the punishment that wretched bastard imposed on me. Fear not, because my wounds are healed, and I am a free man again. No, not a man. More than that. You may find it hard to believe, but I write to you as one reborn,…",{"title":3715,"text":3716},"Castigations","To all my subordinates, In light of recent disruptions, be vigilant at all times and put in extra effort to compensate for reduced manpower. The collection, storage, and distribution of blood needs to continue smoothly, without further interruptions. And…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3718},"Letter from Ambrus inventory icon",[6],[],[3722,3725,3728],{"kind":31,"name":3723,"path":3724},"Letter from Rozalia","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-from-rozalia",{"kind":31,"name":3726,"path":3727},"Second Letter from Rozalia","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#second-letter-from-rozalia",{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":3730,"name":3627,"path":3628,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3731,"excerpts":3732,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":107,"icon":3735,"categories":3737,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3738,"relations":3739},"letter-from-bakir","Addressed to Ambrus's men. Bakir thanks the recipients for a shipment of blood stolen from Ambrus and promises generous payment for more. This identifies the buyer behind the diversion. The Ledger records the accounting side: barrels sent to Codrin and the rest concealed as losses in transit.",[3733],{"title":3627,"text":3734},"My most corrupt friends, The last shipment of blood was truly delicious! I enjoyed it thoroughly. Leathery notes, sweet aftertaste – a true delicacy! And knowing that it was swiped from under Ambrus's nose only adds to the pleasure. Oh, he'd be so mad! I…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3736},"Letter from Bakir inventory icon",[6],[],[3740,3741,3744,3745],{"kind":31,"name":3338,"path":3339},{"kind":31,"name":3742,"path":3743},"Reprimand from Ambrus","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#reprimand-from-ambrus",{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":3747,"name":3748,"path":3749,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3750,"excerpts":3751,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":273,"icon":3754,"categories":3756,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3757,"relations":3758},"letter-from-brother-ilie","Letter from Brother Ilie","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-from-brother-ilie","A cleric's message to his persecuted flock. Brother Ilie urges his Christian congregation to keep praying but prepare to flee persecution. His warning complements the shrine documents about preserving the old faith under vrakhiri rule.",[3752],{"title":3748,"text":3753},"To my dear flock, I must confess that I grow ever more worried, for that tyrant has become even more relentless in pursuing our faith. He possesses neither soul nor mercy. Of course, I'm not saying we should stop our devotion. Continue in your prayers, my…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3755},"Letter from Brother Ilie inventory icon",[6],[],[3759],{"kind":31,"name":813,"path":814},{"slug":3761,"name":3762,"path":3763,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":3764,"excerpts":3765,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":3768,"categories":3770,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3771,"relations":3772},"letter-from-doctor-simeon","Letter from Doctor Simeon","\u002Fitems\u002Fletter-from-doctor-simeon","Signed by Doctor Simeon. Simeon gives Eli until the end of the week and threatens consequences if he fails to act. He also warns Eli against asking their mutual acquaintance for help. Read it with Warning from Simeon to follow how the dispute around Eli and Vicho develops.",[3766],{"title":3762,"text":3767},"Eli, Do you take me for a fool? Someone who will just wait for you to do the right thing? If so – you couldn't be more mistaken. I do not care about your ‘difficult circumstances’ or any other excuses you have to offer. And do not think even for a moment…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3769},"Letter from Doctor Simeon inventory icon",[6],[],[3773],{"kind":31,"name":3774,"path":3775},"Simeon’s later warning","\u002Fitems\u002Fwarning-from-simeon",{"slug":3777,"name":3778,"path":3779,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":3780,"excerpts":3781,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":273,"icon":3785,"categories":3787,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3788,"relations":3789},"letter-from-emre","Letter from Emre","\u002Fitems\u002Fletter-from-emre","A hastily composed missive. Despite its title, Matei signs this letter to Emre. The boots are said to be at the old camp south of Pilgrim’s Trail shrine, on the west bank of the Stuga beside a rock crag; the missing newcomer was packing coal there.",[3782],{"title":3783,"text":3784},"Matei's Letter to Emre","Emre, I'm leaving for Svartrau with Gogu and Nichita. Don't want to wake you up, so I'm writing instead. Those expensive boots you won from me tonight... well, I forgot to tell you I don't have them with me. I must have left them in our old camp. We were…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3786},"Letter from Emre inventory icon",[6],[],[3790],{"kind":31,"name":3791,"path":1685},"Vale Sangora map",{"slug":3793,"name":3794,"path":3795,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3796,"excerpts":3797,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":3801,"categories":3803,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3804,"relations":3805},"letter-from-father","Letter from Father","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-from-father","A message from a concerned parent. A father asks his son to return to Silberstein after a quarrel, offering to teach him the family shop’s trade and welcome him without questions. His concern centres on his son’s recent companions and activities. The Letter from Mother presents another family’s plea against the attraction of military service.",[3798],{"title":3799,"text":3800},"A Letter from Father","Son, I know that we haven’t seen eye to eye lately. And I know that the last time we talked I shouldn’t have raised my voice. But please, understand that we worry about you. The things you’ve been doing, the people you’ve been seeing… I was young once too…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3802},"Letter from Father inventory icon",[6],[],[3806],{"kind":31,"name":2247,"path":2248},{"slug":3808,"name":3809,"path":3810,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3811,"excerpts":3812,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":273,"icon":3816,"categories":3818,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3819,"relations":3820},"letter-from-florin","Letter From Florin","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-from-florin","More of a thinly-veiled threat. Florin is pressuring Luben to come to the cathedral, using knowledge of his secrets as leverage. It reveals how Florin recruits help for his plans, alongside the more direct orders he sends to Boris.",[3813],{"title":3814,"text":3815},"A Letter from Florin","Luben, I believe that God chose you for something grander than whatever ill-intentioned scheme you’re currently involved in. A man of your skills, of your knack for getting things done – no, I simply cannot let you go to waste. So once again I beseech you –…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3817},"Letter From Florin inventory icon",[6],[],[3821,3823],{"kind":31,"name":3822,"path":1207},"Florin’s orders to Boris",{"kind":31,"name":302,"path":303},{"slug":3825,"name":3826,"path":3827,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3828,"excerpts":3829,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":167,"icon":3832,"categories":3834,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3835,"relations":3836},"letter-from-home","Letter from Home","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-from-home","A piece of correspondence from a disappointed father. Stibor disowns his son Istvan for enlisting with the vrakhiri and refuses to send money. Letters From Home gives the opposite family response: a mother urging her son to seek promotion.",[3830],{"title":3826,"text":3831},"Istvan, I received your letter. Thank you for your wishes; my health is good despite the drainings, thank you. As for your thinly veiled requests for money, my answer is simple: no. I don't care about your woes, I don't care about your troubles. I told you…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3833},"Letter from Home inventory icon",[6],[],[3837],{"kind":31,"name":280,"path":281},{"slug":3839,"name":3840,"path":3841,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3842,"excerpts":3843,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":273,"icon":3846,"categories":3848,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3849,"relations":3850},"letter-from-matei","Letter from Matei","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-from-matei","A master's scornful letter to his subordinate. Matei orders his new charcoal worker to stay near camp, keep the fire tended and avoid the woods after dark. The note explains the sacks and delivery work as well as the worker's concern about nocturnal creatures.",[3844],{"title":3840,"text":3845},"To the new lad, Pack the sacks tight. Heaviest at the bottom, lightest on top, and lash them all down with rope. Spill any charcoal and it goes out of your wages – no excuses. Stay close to camp and tend the fire. The woods may seem quiet by day, but strange…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3847},"Letter from Matei inventory icon",[6],[],[3851],{"kind":31,"name":1544,"path":1545},{"slug":3853,"name":2247,"path":2248,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3854,"excerpts":3855,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":1470,"sellValue":273,"icon":3859,"categories":3861,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3862,"relations":3863},"letter-from-mother","Written by the distraught mother of a Blood Guard recruit. Ethel urges her son to leave soldiering and come home, arguing that vrakhiri blood will not make him suited to military life. Her plea sits alongside the Evaluation Letter’s account of recruiters using the boyaress’s blood to entice men into the Blood Guard.",[3856],{"title":3857,"text":3858},"Smeared Letter","My son, I beg of you, stop this foolishness. You are not cut out to be a soldier, and no amount of vrakhiri blood will change that. Please, please, please – come back home before you get hurt. And we both know that you will, and then I will tell you I told…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3860},"Letter from Mother inventory icon",[6],[],[3864,3865],{"kind":31,"name":2231,"path":2232},{"kind":31,"name":3794,"path":3795},{"slug":3867,"name":3868,"path":3869,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":3870,"excerpts":3871,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":273,"icon":3874,"categories":3876,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3877,"relations":3878},"letter-from-parlita-elder","Letter from Parlita Elder","\u002Fitems\u002Fletter-from-parlita-elder","Describes horrifying events that unfolded south of Parlita. Elder Stanislav reports attacks south of Parlita along the Lupila: two villagers have been found mangled and others are missing. His request to the Svartrau guard points to the riverbanks, where frightened fisherfolk have stopped working. The letter belongs to a tatzelwurm lair encounter; use the south-of-Parlita river clue when exploring for the nest.",[3872],{"title":3868,"text":3873},"To the Captain of the Svartrau Guard, Two villagers were found slain south of Parlita, upon the banks of the Lupila. Their bodies were so mangled we could scarce tell they were our folk – only a family heirloom gave us a sure name. In the last weeks, several…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3875},"Letter from Parlita Elder inventory icon",[6],[],[3879],{"kind":31,"name":3880,"path":3881},"Tatzelwurm","\u002Fcreatures\u002Ftatzelwurm",{"slug":3883,"name":3723,"path":3724,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3884,"excerpts":3885,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":167,"icon":3888,"categories":3890,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3891,"relations":3892},"letter-from-rozalia","A message from Ambrus's worried lover. Rozalia is still searching for Ambrus and plans to go to Svartrau for news of his campaign. Her second letter follows the discovery that Skender imprisoned him, while Ambrus's personal letter announces what happened after his punishment.",[3886],{"title":3723,"text":3887},"My dearest Ambrus, It troubles me that you have not replied to my last two letters. Clearly, they never reached your hand, for I refuse to believe you could so easily forget me. Tomorrow, I set out for Svartrau to learn how your last campaign fared. Once I…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3889},"Letter from Rozalia inventory icon",[6],[],[3893,3894,3895],{"kind":31,"name":3726,"path":3727},{"kind":31,"name":3708,"path":3709},{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":3897,"name":1512,"path":1513,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3898,"excerpts":3899,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":1305,"sellValue":107,"icon":3902,"categories":3904,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3905,"relations":3906},"letter-from-st-tynas","Mother Bernice's message to a suffering child's father. Mother Bernice asks Henkel to bring bear fat to St. Tyna's for an ointment for his son's painful joints. This is a healer's letter about that family, paired with Business Notice's account of the herb-and-ointment trade.",[3900],{"title":1512,"text":3901},"Henkel, I'm so terribly sorry to hear about your son. For someone so young to be thus afflicted is exceedingly saddening – joint issues so severe usually affect only the very old. There's one remedy that comes to mind – but I'm afraid the key component is…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3903},"Letter from St. Tyna's inventory icon",[6],[],[3907],{"kind":31,"name":1500,"path":1501},{"slug":3909,"name":3910,"path":3911,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3912,"excerpts":3913,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":3917,"sellValue":22,"icon":3918,"categories":3920,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3921,"relations":3922},"letter-from-the-prioress","Letter from the Prioress","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-from-the-prioress","Written in crisp cursive. Bernice orders Anghel to secure the sacristy discreetly. The letter supplies the reason for the boarded windows and reinforced doors; for entering the sacristy and bell tower, follow the separate Monastery Keys route.",[3914],{"title":3915,"text":3916},"Instructions from Prioress","Sister, Find Anghel and tell him to drop everything and go to the sacristy. He's to reinforce the doors and board up the windows. Make sure there are no witnesses to your conversation and tell him to be as discreet as he can. Mention this to no one, not even…",51,{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3919},"Letter from the Prioress inventory icon",[6],[],[3923],{"kind":31,"name":3924,"path":3925},"Monastery Keys","\u002Fitems\u002Fmonastery-keys",{"slug":3927,"name":3928,"path":3929,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3930,"excerpts":3931,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":273,"icon":3934,"categories":3936,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3937,"relations":3938},"letter-from-xanthe","Letter from Xanthe","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-from-xanthe","Orders for the captain of the military camp. Xanthe directs Asen toward a mountain abyss and an ancient treasure held by the creatures inside. Her separate Missive warns of danger in those mountains, so the two documents describe the objective and the risk from different angles.",[3932],{"title":3928,"text":3933},"Captain Asen, I saw your camp in my dreams, and the gaping abyss in the mountains nearby. I peered within, and saw greedy glowing eyes. The creatures who live therein, shrouded in the darkness, possess something that doesn't belong to them, a piece of…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3935},"Letter from Xanthe inventory icon",[6],[],[3939,3942],{"kind":31,"name":3940,"path":3941},"Xanthe’s warning to the captain","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#missive-from-xanthe",{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":3944,"name":3945,"path":3946,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3947,"excerpts":3948,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":438,"sellValue":273,"icon":3952,"categories":3954,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3955,"relations":3956},"letter-of-admonishment","Letter of Admonishment","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-of-admonishment","Stern words addressed to Ambrus's soldiers. Sergeant Chenko orders soldiers to conceal a prisoner transport’s destination and purpose from its captives. He wants to prevent resistance before draining, preserving the blood Ambrus expects to receive. Directives from Ambrus describe the operation awaiting those prisoners.",[3949],{"title":3950,"text":3951},"Regarding Prisoners","Soldiers, When transporting prisoners for draining, refrain from informing them about the nature of their imminent punishment. Best if they remain ignorant of what awaits – else they are likely to cause trouble. Enough blood has been spilled pointlessly,…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3953},"Letter of Admonishment inventory icon",[6],[],[3957,3958],{"kind":31,"name":2143,"path":2144},{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":3960,"name":2139,"path":2140,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3961,"excerpts":3962,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":1470,"sellValue":167,"icon":3966,"categories":3968,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3969,"relations":3970},"letter-of-denial","Military document. Meant for an uriash soldier. Leon of Parlita refuses an uriash trainer’s request to leave service on Xanthe’s behalf. The trainer must keep preparing soldiers, with his entire village threatened if his work displeases the court. The letter is to be read aloud to him by the camp captain.",[3963],{"title":3964,"text":3965},"Letter for the Uriash","Captain, This letter is meant for the uriash stationed at your camp. Read it out loud to him and make sure he understands. Soldier, I'm writing to inform you that your request for discharge from service has been denied. You need to continue your work until…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3967},"Letter of Denial inventory icon",[6],[],[3971,3972,3973],{"kind":31,"name":2123,"path":2124},{"kind":31,"name":2136,"path":2137},{"kind":31,"name":3974,"path":3975},"Uriash","\u002Fcreatures\u002Furiash",{"slug":3977,"name":3978,"path":3979,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3980,"excerpts":3981,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":107,"icon":3984,"categories":3986,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":3987,"relations":3988},"letter-of-denunciation","Letter of Denunciation","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-of-denunciation","A loyal lieutenant's testimony against his own wife. Lieutenant Barbu denounces his wife for a hidden Christian altar and names Grozav as her accomplice. Love Letter is Grozav's side of the story, including his fear that the husband will discover their meetings at the shrine.",[3982],{"title":3978,"text":3983},"To the High Officers, It grieves me to report that I recently discovered treachery has taken root under my own roof. My wife has betrayed both our household and the law. She has clung to the old faith by harbouring a hidden Christian altar. I swear I did not…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":3985},"Letter of Denunciation inventory icon",[6],[],[3989],{"kind":31,"name":3990,"path":3991},"Love Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#love-letter",{"slug":3993,"name":3994,"path":3995,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":3996,"excerpts":3997,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":273,"icon":4001,"categories":4003,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4004,"relations":4005},"letter-of-encouragement","Letter of Encouragement","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-of-encouragement","Inspiring words from boyar Bakir himself. Bakir tells pillory guards to encourage crowds to mock prisoners and throw rotten food at them. He treats the spectacle as a way to reduce resentment of the rulers. His alcohol distribution orders pursue the same aim through free drink and settlement-level rewards.",[3998],{"title":3999,"text":4000},"On Pillories","My dearest vermin, I hear that some of you, when assigned to guard the pillories, drive gawkers away. A grave mistake! The common folk need entertainment like they need bread! So don't shoo them away, don't give them sullen looks. To the contrary! Encourage…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4002},"Letter of Encouragement inventory icon",[6],[],[4006,4007,4008],{"kind":31,"name":3376,"path":3377},{"kind":31,"name":628,"path":629},{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":4010,"name":3704,"path":3705,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4011,"excerpts":4012,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":273,"icon":4016,"categories":4018,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4019,"relations":4020},"letter-of-protection","Proof that the robber baron Gheorghe Racovitza remains under Xanthe's aegis. Xanthe's protection covers Gheorghe Racovitza and expressly allows him to carry the key to Greifberg Castle's side gates. For obtaining and using that key, follow the Side Gate Key route.",[4013],{"title":4014,"text":4015},"Iron Letter","This document is to state that Gheorghe Racovitza is under my protection and no harm shall be rendered unto him by whomsoever. Let it also be known that Gheorghe Racovitza is entitled to carry the key to the side gates of Greifberg Castle and may enter and…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4017},"Letter of Protection inventory icon",[6],[],[4021,4024,4025],{"kind":31,"name":4022,"path":4023},"Side Gate Key To Greifberg Castle","\u002Fitems\u002Fside-gate-key-to-greifberg-castle",{"kind":31,"name":1013,"path":1014},{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":4027,"name":4028,"path":4029,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4030,"excerpts":4031,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":273,"icon":4035,"categories":4037,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4038,"relations":4039},"letter-of-punishment-bohdan","Letter of Punishment: Bohdan","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-of-punishment-bohdan","Military document. Mircea accuses Bohdan of stealing Xanthe’s blood and orders a public punishment witnessed by the whole unit. The letter explains the Blood Guard’s dependence on her blood and its discipline. Its associated encounter is Xanthe’s Blood Guards: Unquenchable Thirst.",[4032],{"title":4033,"text":4034},"Punishment: Bohdan","I read the report concerning Recruit Bohdan's case. Stealing the boyaress's blood is the most grevious crime that a Blood Guard can commit, as this holy substance is the very foundation upon which our illustrious order is built – as precious as it is scarce.…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4036},"Letter of Punishment: Bohdan inventory icon",[6],[],[4040,4043],{"kind":31,"name":4041,"path":4042},"Unquenchable Thirst camp","\u002Fquests#xanthes-blood-guards-unquenchable-thirst",{"kind":31,"name":4044,"path":4045},"Recruitment Instructions","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#recruitment-instructions",{"slug":4047,"name":4048,"path":4049,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4050,"excerpts":4051,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":273,"icon":4055,"categories":4057,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4058,"relations":4059},"letter-of-punishment-viorel","Letter of Punishment: Viorel","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-of-punishment-viorel","Military document. Mircea orders Viorel’s punishment as a lesson in obedience to Xanthe, demanding loyalty in exchange for the boyaress’s blood. It belongs with the Teach with Pain camp encounter. Bohdan’s separate punishment letter names the theft of her blood as his offence.",[4052],{"title":4053,"text":4054},"Punishment: Viorel","Recruit Viorel is to be punished with utmost severity – if he dies in the process, so be it. In exchange for her blessed blood, the boyaress expects nothing less than blind loyalty. Let your men see what happens to those who dare disappoint her. Mircea,…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4056},"Letter of Punishment: Viorel inventory icon",[6],[],[4060,4063],{"kind":31,"name":4061,"path":4062},"Teach with Pain","\u002Fquests#xanthes-blood-guards-teach-with-pain",{"kind":31,"name":4064,"path":4029},"Bohdan’s punishment letter",{"slug":4066,"name":4067,"path":4068,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4069,"excerpts":4070,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":1305,"sellValue":167,"icon":4074,"categories":4076,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4077,"relations":4078},"letter-of-refusal","Letter of Refusal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-of-refusal","Official answer to requests from Ambrus's soldiers. Sergeant Chenko rejects soldiers’ repeated requests to leave draining duty and warns that further requests will be treated as treason. The letter reveals discontent inside Ambrus’s operation. His separate Letter with an Offer recruits carriers for blood barrels by promising double pay.",[4071],{"title":4072,"text":4073},"Regarding Draining Duties","Soldiers, I have received multiple letters requesting reassignment from draining duty. Let me answer them all at once: no, you shall not be relieved of this service. Collecting blood for our suzerain Ambrus is an honour that should be relished. Perform it…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4075},"Letter of Refusal inventory icon",[6],[],[4079,4082,4083],{"kind":31,"name":4080,"path":4081},"Letter with an Offer","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-with-an-offer",{"kind":31,"name":2143,"path":2144},{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":4085,"name":2159,"path":2160,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4086,"excerpts":4087,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":107,"icon":4094,"categories":4096,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4097,"relations":4098},"letter-of-reprimand","Sheds some light on Ambrus's operations. Two letters share this title. Bardil rebukes Makar for missing blood quotas and watering down barrels. Bakir’s version instead targets distillery guards drinking on duty: he reserves the alcohol for the population and threatens offenders with drowning in the vats. Match the author to distinguish the two incidents.",[4088,4091],{"title":4089,"text":4090},"Reprimand from Bardil","Makar, You have fallen below the quota yet again. I know what it means – the collectors are slacking off, and I shan't allow this. Provide as many barrels as agreed – and make sure they're filled to the brim. And if I catch you thinning the blood with water…",{"title":4092,"text":4093},"On Drunk Soldiers","My dearest vermin, News has reached me that guardians of distilleries partake in the alcohol that we brew – while on duty! An understandable urge, for sure – nothing like a swig of slivovitz to improve the mood! Sadly, inebriation has a negative effect on…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4095},"Letter of Reprimand inventory icon",[6],[],[4099,4100,4101,4102],{"kind":31,"name":2143,"path":2144},{"kind":31,"name":3376,"path":3377},{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":4104,"name":4105,"path":4106,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4107,"excerpts":4108,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":107,"icon":4112,"categories":4114,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4115,"relations":4116},"letter-of-warning","Letter of Warning","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-of-warning","Written in neat, elegant cursive. Tialla warns Deron about meeting a boyar alone at night and sends a silver cross for protection. Her letter explains the cross’s place in the planned meeting and supplies the human correspondence connected with Come Hither.",[4109],{"title":4110,"text":4111},"Stay Safe","Deron, I read your words with apprehension – meeting with the boyar himself? Alone, in the hours of darkness and in the middle of nowhere? I understand he made promises regarding your safety, but I wouldn't put too much faith in them, if I were you. Please,…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4113},"Letter of Warning inventory icon",[6],[],[4117,4120],{"kind":31,"name":4118,"path":4119},"Come Hither","\u002Fquests#come-hither",{"kind":31,"name":4121,"path":4122},"Silver Crucifix","\u002Fitems\u002Fquest-items#silver-crucifix",{"slug":4124,"name":4125,"path":4126,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4127,"excerpts":4128,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":273,"icon":4131,"categories":4133,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4134,"relations":4135},"letter-to-a-merchant","Letter to a Merchant","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-to-a-merchant","Supplier's message. V. refuses further deliveries because hounds repeatedly follow the smell of the merchandise, even when dummy transports are used. The letter explains why the courier abandoned the arrangement with K.",[4129],{"title":4125,"text":4130},"K, I can’t keep bringing you the goods. Last time, I barely got away from a pack of hungry hounds ready to tear the sacks apart. And then I’d have shared their fate, no doubt. The merchandise has become too smelly to keep it safe in transport, if you know…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4132},"Letter to a Merchant inventory icon",[6],[],[4136],{"kind":31,"name":4137,"path":4138},"Trapper's Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#trappers-letter",{"slug":4140,"name":4141,"path":4142,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4143,"excerpts":4144,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":107,"icon":4147,"categories":4149,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4150,"relations":4151},"letter-to-boyar-ambrus","Letter to Boyar Ambrus","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-to-boyar-ambrus","Catnica's lustful message to the boyar. Catnica signs herself the Lustful Witch of Boar's Back and asks Ambrus for a private meeting and immortality. Compare her journal and the other petitions to see how she courted several vrakhiri at once.",[4145],{"title":4141,"text":4146},"To Most Illustrious Boyar Ambrus, My heart races when I think of you. I watch you closely every Mass, burning with desire to come closer, speak to you, touch you... Please, I beg you, end my torment! Meet with me – let it be just the two of us, away from the…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4148},"Letter to Boyar Ambrus inventory icon",[6],[],[4152,4153],{"kind":31,"name":1606,"path":1607},{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":4155,"name":1618,"path":1619,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4156,"excerpts":4157,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":438,"sellValue":107,"icon":4160,"categories":4162,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4163,"relations":4164},"letter-to-boyar-bakir","Catnica's unusual request to the Mad Khan. Catnica calls Bakir her chosen liege and renews her plea to become immortal. Her journal gives the continuation: repeated unanswered letters, rituals, then Bakir's visit with the tooth.",[4158],{"title":1618,"text":4159},"To My Eternal Liege Bakir, I remain forever hopeful for your response to my earlier pleas, as none of the boyars shines more brightly in my eyes than you! I beseech you again – claim me! Make me as you are, eternal and unyielding. My soul has long been…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4161},"Letter to Boyar Bakir inventory icon",[6],[],[4165,4166],{"kind":31,"name":1606,"path":1607},{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":4168,"name":1621,"path":1622,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4169,"excerpts":4170,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":167,"icon":4173,"categories":4175,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4176,"relations":4177},"letter-to-boyaress-xanthe","Catnica's plea to the boyaress. Catnica flatters Xanthe's strength and centuries of wisdom while asking to serve her for eternity. It is one of four appeals to different vrakhiri, all tied together by Catnica's Journal.",[4171],{"title":1621,"text":4172},"To Honoured Boyaress Xanthe, I must confess that none of the lords of this land commands my soul as you do. Your strength and wisdom, honed over centuries, leave me trembling in awe. Every day, I dream of being claimed by you. Meet me, and I swear I can…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4174},"Letter to Boyaress Xanthe inventory icon",[6],[],[4178,4179],{"kind":31,"name":1606,"path":1607},{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":4181,"name":4182,"path":4183,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4184,"excerpts":4185,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1024,"sellValue":48,"icon":4188,"categories":4191,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4192,"relations":4193},"letter-to-brother-albertus","Letter to Brother Albertus","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-to-brother-albertus","A letter predating the vrakhiri takeover. Adalbert identifies Esme of his Laslea congregation as a childhood witness to the Saxon Revolt of 1324. He says she no longer speaks and refuses to record the account she once gave in confession. The letter preserves a survivor’s identity while leaving the traumatic events themselves unwritten.",[4186],{"title":4182,"text":4187},"Dear Brother in Faith, I hope this letter finds you well. My congregation in Laslea is doing well, thank you, although we are troubled by reports of the plague spreading beyond the mountains. May it never reach our valley, so help us God. How is your work on…",{"src":4189,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4190},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBN2.webp","Letter to Brother Albertus inventory icon",[6],[],[4194],{"kind":31,"name":4195,"path":79},"Another survivor’s account of a suppressed revolt",{"slug":4197,"name":4198,"path":4199,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4200,"excerpts":4201,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":107,"icon":4204,"categories":4206,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4207,"relations":4208},"letter-to-knyaz-brencis","Letter to Knyaz Brencis","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-to-knyaz-brencis","Catnica's humble appeal to the sovereign of Vale Sangora. Catnica offers Brencis her magical knowledge in exchange for becoming a vrakhir. Her journal reveals the broader campaign behind this apparently exclusive declaration of devotion.",[4202],{"title":4198,"text":4203},"To His Eternal Grace, Knyaz Brencis, I adore how the valley prospers under your rule. You brought wealth and order where there was once only hardship and injustice. And yet… my heart aches for more. I am consumed by a yearning that no one else can satisfy. I…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4205},"Letter to Knyaz Brencis inventory icon",[6],[],[4209,4210],{"kind":31,"name":1606,"path":1607},{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":4212,"name":4213,"path":4214,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4215,"excerpts":4216,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":4220,"categories":4222,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4223,"relations":4224},"letter-to-tonis","Letter to Tonis","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-to-tonis","Written on cheap, reused vellum. Father Ovidiu found no parish record for Tonis’s missing sister Heile. The failed records search explains Tonis’s unanswered question.",[4217],{"title":4218,"text":4219},"To Tonis","Dear Tonis, As requested, I consulted the parish records, looking for any mention of Heile. Unfortunately, I didn't find any matching records. I am sorry I couldn't be of more help. I hope that God Almighty will reunite you with your missing sister – if not…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4221},"Letter to Tonis inventory icon",[6],[],[4225],{"kind":31,"name":4226,"path":4227},"Tonis","\u002Fcharacters\u002Ftonis",{"slug":4229,"name":4230,"path":4231,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4232,"excerpts":4233,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":167,"icon":4236,"categories":4238,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4239,"relations":4240},"letter-to-wifey","Letter to Wifey","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-to-wifey","A husband's report from his fishing trip. The fisherman lists pike, perch and carp from his trip and praises the strong spirits now available under the new knyaz. It gives a working fisherman's perspective alongside the shepherds' rural diaries.",[4234],{"title":4230,"text":4235},"Dear Wifey! Fish are neither good nor bad today. I pulled two nice pike and a few small perch. By midday, I hauled in a fat carp that fought me hard till the very end. Now my back hurts like hell, and my feet are colder than the river stones. But I’ve got a…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4237},"Letter to Wifey inventory icon",[6],[],[4241],{"kind":31,"name":4242,"path":4243},"Shepherd's Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#shepherds-journal",{"slug":4245,"name":4246,"path":4247,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":4248,"excerpts":4249,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":167,"icon":4252,"categories":4254,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4255,"relations":4256},"letter-to-xanthe","Letter to Xanthe","\u002Fitems\u002Fletter-to-xanthe","Letter to Xanthe from a mysterious 'L'.",[4250],{"title":4246,"text":4251},"Xanthe, I am the vrakhir you’ve surely heard about by now – gossip travels fast in these parts. I don’t know exactly what part you played in Brencis’s takeover of Vale Sangora, but I have a feeling it was one of convenience, not conviction. I’m sorry to say…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4253},"Letter to Xanthe inventory icon",[6],[],[4257,4258],{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":4260,"name":4261,"path":4262,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":4263,"excerpts":4264,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":4268,"categories":4270,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4271,"relations":4272},"letter-with-a-tip","Letter with a Tip","\u002Fitems\u002Fletter-with-a-tip","Speaks of shady business.",[4265],{"title":4266,"text":4267},"Tip","Yani, I asked around for someone trading in silver, as instructed. There were very few leads – most fences decline to even discuss it. But there's talk of someone in the Neustadt district. I tried to get a name or address but no luck thus far. I'll keep…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4269},"Letter with a Tip inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":4274,"name":4275,"path":4276,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4277,"excerpts":4278,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":107,"icon":4281,"categories":4283,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4284,"relations":4285},"letter-with-advice","Letter with Advice","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-with-advice","A well-meant piece of advice with fatal consequences. Vera passes on a folk remedy involving a wolf's heart to Petko. The document belongs with the valley's animal and healing stories; Letter from St. Tyna's records a different remedy involving bear fat.",[4279],{"title":4275,"text":4280},"Petko, Sorry to hear about your affliction. Happens to men your age more often than you'd think. Nothing to be ashamed of. As for remedies: I've heard about one, indeed, but cannot vouch for its effectiveness, so follow these instructions at your own risk…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4282},"Letter with Advice inventory icon",[6],[],[4286],{"kind":31,"name":1512,"path":1513},{"slug":4288,"name":4080,"path":4081,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4289,"excerpts":4290,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":862,"sellValue":167,"icon":4294,"categories":4296,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4297,"relations":4298},"letter-with-an-offer","Meant for soldiers in Ambrus's regiments. Sergeant Chenko seeks volunteers strong enough to carry full barrels of blood and offers double pay for the work. This recruitment notice complements his refusal to release soldiers from draining duty, showing the different pressures used to staff Ambrus’s blood operation.",[4291],{"title":4292,"text":4293},"Porters Needed","Soldiers, Our beloved boyar seeks able-bodied men, who won't buckle under the burden of a barrel filled with blood. Volunteers will be offered double pay. Seek me out if interested. Sergeant Chenko",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4295},"Letter with an Offer inventory icon",[6],[],[4299,4300,4301],{"kind":31,"name":4067,"path":4068},{"kind":31,"name":3326,"path":3327},{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":4303,"name":4304,"path":4305,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4306,"excerpts":4307,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":273,"icon":4310,"categories":4312,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4313,"relations":4314},"letter-with-intel","Letter with Intel","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#letter-with-intel","A hesitant delivery. Ivek's informant identifies a cave behind the tower as the hiding place discussed by two people at the inn. The note gives that landmark relationship without naming the object stashed there.",[4308],{"title":4304,"text":4309},"Ivek, I overheard two of them talking at the inn last night. They said that they stashed it in the cave, the one behind the tower. I still think it’s a bad idea to mess with them, but a deal’s a deal, I guess. You got your information. Whether you listen to…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4311},"Letter with Intel inventory icon",[6],[],[4315],{"kind":31,"name":2381,"path":2382},{"slug":4317,"name":280,"path":281,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4318,"excerpts":4319,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":107,"icon":4322,"categories":4324,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4325,"relations":4326},"letters-from-home","A proud mother's letter to her up-and-coming son. The mother urges her soldier son to obey the vrakhiri and earn promotion to Blood Guard, citing Ambrus's rise from an ordinary soldier. Letter from Home provides the contrasting response of a father who disowns his enlisted son.",[4320],{"title":2247,"text":4321},"Dear son, I hope this letter finds you well. I pray every day to the Knyaz and the God he tells us about to watch over you. Follow your orders to the letter and beyond. With time, the vrakhiri will notice your dedication and promote you to Blood Guard, and…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4323},"Letters From Home inventory icon",[6],[],[4327],{"kind":31,"name":3826,"path":3827},{"slug":4329,"name":4330,"path":4331,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4332,"excerpts":4333,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":1128,"sellValue":252,"icon":4336,"categories":4339,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4340,"relations":4341},"like-cures-like","Like Cures Like","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#like-cures-like","Illegal samizdat. The rebel writer accuses Brencis of causing the plague so that he could claim credit for curing it, using a venom-cures-venom analogy. The accusation turns his public image as healer against him. The Saviour presents the regime’s opposing portrayal of Brencis as humanity’s protector.",[4334],{"title":4330,"text":4335},"The Good Knyaz Brencis cured us of the plague. Praise be to Him! But how was he able to do it? If you want to know, ask any doctor about the cure for snake bites. They will surely tell you it's snake venom itself! For there's only one way Brencis was able to…",{"src":4337,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4338},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBY12.webp","Like Cures Like inventory icon",[6],[],[4342,4345],{"kind":31,"name":4343,"path":4344},"Brencis as protector in The Saviour","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-saviour",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":4347,"name":4348,"path":4349,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":4350,"excerpts":4351,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":4355,"categories":4357,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4358,"relations":4359},"list-of-armour-components","List of Armour Components","\u002Fitems\u002Flist-of-armour-components","A note describing how to create a special set of armour.",[4352],{"title":4353,"text":4354},"A List of Armour Components","Here’s the list of components: “(...) in order to make such an armour, one needs to acquire a few rare components: the moult of a large lizard, hard and difficult to pierce; a bundle of silk threads – strong and resilient; a flask of quicksilver, for…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4356},"List of Armour Components inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":4361,"name":4362,"path":4363,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4364,"excerpts":4365,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":107,"icon":4368,"categories":4370,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4371,"relations":4372},"list-of-necessities","List of Necessities","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#list-of-necessities","Someone's list of things to obtain. The list calls for leather, an apprentice's hammer and tongs, a replacement sword, torches and oil.",[4366],{"title":4362,"text":4367},"It feels like we need fucking everything, every day there's another fucking shortage. 1. Tanned leather – including strips; all we can get 2. New hammer and a new pair of tongs for the apprentice 3. Sword to replace Y.’s broken one; take it straight to him…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4369},"List of Necessities inventory icon",[6],[],[4373],{"kind":31,"name":2057,"path":2058},{"slug":4375,"name":3176,"path":3177,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4376,"excerpts":4377,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":438,"sellValue":273,"icon":4380,"categories":4382,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4383,"relations":4384},"lizard-hunters-note","A detailed description of some deadly fauna. Leyo describes a large brood mother crushing a wolf and nearby creatures when it lands from a leap. The hunters also note that the smaller lizards hide under mud; Hunting Order places a separate lizard hunt in southern Briar Sloughs.",[4378],{"title":3176,"text":4379},"These lizards will be the death of us, but the price their skins can fetch, it’s simply life changing. Especially if we somehow managed to bag the big one. Erden’s been watching them for days, he managed to spot them hunting their prey. Most of them, they’re…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4381},"Lizard Hunter's Note inventory icon",[6],[],[4385],{"kind":31,"name":3164,"path":3165},{"slug":4387,"name":4388,"path":4389,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4390,"excerpts":4391,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":1343,"sellValue":48,"icon":4395,"categories":4398,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4399,"relations":4400},"lost-bet","Lost Bet","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#lost-bet","Communication between Brencis's soldiers. Gostibor boasts to Balich about killing manumits and demands drinks in Svartrau as his wager winnings. This is soldiers’ correspondence, separate from the numbered histories; it shows the attitude behind the regime’s pursuit of rebels.",[4392],{"title":4393,"text":4394},"A Lost Bet","Balich, I’m glad to let you know that you’ve lost our bet – this month my lads got rid of half a dozen manumits. And from what I hear, you unlucky bastards couldn’t even find a single rebel. So – I believe you owe us a few rounds when we’re all on leave back…",{"src":4396,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4397},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBG6.webp","Lost Bet inventory icon",[6],[],[4401,4403],{"kind":31,"name":4402,"path":2469},"The manumit supply investigation",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":4405,"name":3990,"path":3991,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4406,"excerpts":4407,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":107,"icon":4410,"categories":4412,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4413,"relations":4414},"love-letter","Juding by the splotches, tears were shed. Grozav asks his lover to stop meeting at their secret shrine because her husband could expose both their relationship and worship. Letter of Denunciation identifies the husband as Lieutenant Barbu and records his accusation.",[4408],{"title":3990,"text":4409},"My beloved in Christ, Thank you for last night. Every moment spent at your side, kneeling together in prayer, is more sacred than a hundred sermons. Your gentle presence, your ever-graceful touch, is a blessing in itself. Yet, I confess, fear stirs in me. I…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4411},"Love Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[4415],{"kind":31,"name":3978,"path":3979},{"slug":4417,"name":2799,"path":2800,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4418,"excerpts":4419,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":273,"icon":4422,"categories":4424,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4425,"relations":4426},"lovers-scribbles","The account of the one who waited. The writer waits from dusk through the night for a missing lover, gradually caring more about their safety than the relationship. Graveyard Letter provides another personal account of love and loss.",[4420],{"title":2799,"text":4421},"Is he all right? It’s been hours that I’ve been sitting here, waiting. He was supposed to be here by dusk. It’s almost dawning. First, I talked to myself for hours; now I’m writing down my thoughts. I just don’t know what to do with my hands. Did he decide…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4423},"Lover's Scribbles inventory icon",[6],[],[4427],{"kind":31,"name":2787,"path":2788},{"slug":4429,"name":462,"path":463,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4430,"excerpts":4431,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":862,"sellValue":107,"icon":4435,"categories":4437,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4438,"relations":4439},"loverss-instructions","A letter detailing two lovers's daring escape plan. Zavid arranges a midnight meeting on Jerina's roof before a promised escape through the city gates. He asks her to take her father's money and jewellery to pay the intermediary, explaining the valuables in his plan.",[4432],{"title":4433,"text":4434},"Lover’s Instructions","My dearest Jerina! Everything is ready – my friend will take us through the city gates tomorrow night. Can you believe it? In a few days we shall be happily married – and your family be damned! Still, there’s the matter of paying my friend. It won't be cheap…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4436},"Lovers's Instructions inventory icon",[6],[],[4440],{"kind":31,"name":449,"path":450},{"slug":4442,"name":4443,"path":4444,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4445,"excerpts":4446,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":1470,"sellValue":107,"icon":4450,"categories":4452,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4453,"relations":4454},"manumit-cache-note","Manumit Cache Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#manumit-cache-note","Either helpful or threatening – depending on one's loyalties. The message identifies the supplies as a manumit stash and invites supporters to take what they need. Compare Note from Rebels for the same distinction between aid to the resistance and theft from its stores.",[4447],{"title":4448,"text":4449},"A Manumit Cache Note","Found this stash, ey? It belongs to us, the brave people fighting against the vrakhiri monsters. If you share our cause, feel free to take whatever you need. But if you’re a vrakhiri lapdog or some pissant still thinking that we can’t overthrow those…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4451},"Manumit Cache Note inventory icon",[6],[],[4455],{"kind":31,"name":4456,"path":4457},"Note from Rebels","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#note-from-rebels",{"slug":4459,"name":4460,"path":2266,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4461,"excerpts":4462,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":1128,"sellValue":824,"icon":4465,"categories":4468,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4469,"relations":4470},"manumit-manifesto","Manumit Manifesto","Illegal samizdat. The manifesto rejects the vrakhiri’s claim to divinity by pointing to their aversion to silver and sunlight. It uses those weaknesses to encourage collective resistance. Meditations on the Superiority of Vrakhiri over Men attempts to reinterpret the same aversions in the rulers’ favour.",[4463],{"title":4460,"text":4464},"The leeches want us to think they're gods. But gods are not repelled by silver. Diseases are. Gods do not fear the light of the sun. Worms and spiders do. That's what these leeches are. They reject all that's good and embrace everything that's dark, sick and…",{"src":4466,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4467},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBY14.webp","Manumit Manifesto inventory icon",[6],[],[4471],{"kind":31,"name":4472,"path":4473},"How loyalist writing explains the same weaknesses","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#meditations-on-the-superiority-of-vrakhiri-over-men",{"slug":4475,"name":4476,"path":4477,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":4478,"excerpts":4479,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":4483,"categories":4485,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4486,"relations":4487},"manumit-orders","Manumit Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fmanumit-orders","Instructions for Lujeta.",[4480],{"title":4481,"text":4482},"Manumit orders","Lujeta, You are a godsend, without a doubt. If not for you, we’d have no eyes and ears in Maragir – your fellow villagers are very loyal to the vrakhiri. Say what you will about Ambrus, the bastard knows how to get people on his side. Your last letter was…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4484},"Manumit Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[4488],{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":4490,"name":4491,"path":4492,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4493,"excerpts":4494,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":1305,"sellValue":273,"icon":4497,"categories":4499,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4500,"relations":4501},"manumits-spotted","Manumits Spotted","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#manumits-spotted","Orders to Brencis's soldiers. The notice orders patrols to report suspicious activity and attack before asking questions. A Manumit Camp Destroyed shows the result of one such operation, including the failure to take prisoners and the cost to the attacking unit.",[4495],{"title":4491,"text":4496},"Soldiers! Manumits have been spotted in the area recently. Be vigilant. Report every little thing, no matter how seemingly inconsequential, to your superiors. As a rule - strike first, ask questions later.",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4498},"Manumits Spotted inventory icon",[6],[],[4502,4504],{"kind":31,"name":4503,"path":195},"A report from a rebel-camp raid",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":4506,"name":4507,"path":4508,"detail":13,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":13,"answered":13,"description":4509,"excerpts":4510,"rarity":183,"material":18,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":4511,"categories":4513,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4514,"relations":4515},"map-of-the-manumitss-caches","Map of the Manumits's Caches","\u002Fitems#map-of-the-manumitss-caches","Shows where the rebels hide what they don't want to be found.",[],{"src":408,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4512},"Map of the Manumits's Caches inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":4517,"name":4518,"path":4519,"detail":13,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":13,"answered":13,"description":4520,"excerpts":4521,"rarity":183,"material":18,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":4522,"categories":4524,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4525,"relations":4526},"map-of-wayside-shrines","Map of Wayside Shrines","\u002Fitems#map-of-wayside-shrines","Annotated by hand.",[],{"src":408,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4523},"Map of Wayside Shrines inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":4528,"name":2036,"path":2037,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4529,"excerpts":4530,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":167,"icon":4534,"categories":4536,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4537,"relations":4538},"marcuss-journal","The owner wrote his name on its back. Marcus first visits Henrik’s bookshop near Altenmarkt Square in Svartrau for magical research, then becomes determined to protect Henrik from people in his own past. He borrows a ritual book and chooses a bracelet for the enchantment. This explains the personal stakes of The Price of Magic.",[4531],{"title":4532,"text":4533},"Marcus’s Journal","(...) I am quite aware that my research into magic is – well, it’s madness. People have burnt for far less. But curiosity and risk always go hand in hand, as my father used to say. To properly study the arcane, I need research material. Books, to be precise.…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4535},"Marcus's Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[4539,4540],{"kind":31,"name":2023,"path":2024},{"kind":31,"name":2039,"path":2040},{"slug":4542,"name":4543,"path":4544,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4545,"excerpts":4546,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":107,"icon":4550,"categories":4552,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4553,"relations":4554},"masters-instructions","Master's Instructions","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#masters-instructions","A note regarding important matters, written to someone's apprentice. The master postpones lessons because Brencis wants research on his coronation ritual. The requested subjects are Anachora and blood as a conduit; the letter also links the researchers to Brencis’s undying troops.",[4547],{"title":4548,"text":4549},"Note to Svetlana","Dear Apprentice, I fear our lessons must be postponed yet again. Knyaz Brencis demands our further assistance, as though conjuring him up an entire troop of undying creatures was not enough. Now we are to investigate a certain ritual he intends to perform at…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4551},"Master's Instructions inventory icon",[6],[],[4555,4558],{"kind":31,"name":4556,"path":4557},"Aurelius’s search for Silas’s work","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#orders-from-master-aurelius",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":4560,"name":3458,"path":3459,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4561,"excerpts":4562,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":107,"icon":4565,"categories":4567,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4568,"relations":4569},"meat-transport-orders","Instructions for a carrion handler. Olli is to return alone after delivering carrion because Torev and Agnar must be back for guard duty before dusk. The note describes a repeated delivery route to kobolds and the reason one traveller will be separated from the others. Compare it with the missing-delivery investigation.",[4563],{"title":3458,"text":4564},"Olli, Torev and Agnar will help you cart the carrion to the kobolds this week, but I need them back at the camp before dusk for guard duty – so you’ll be travelling back alone. You’ve been down the path a few times now, even an oaf would find his way back…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4566},"Meat Transport Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[4570,4571],{"kind":31,"name":3446,"path":3447},{"kind":31,"name":3461,"path":3462},{"slug":4573,"name":4574,"path":4575,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4576,"excerpts":4577,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":273,"icon":4581,"categories":4583,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4584,"relations":4585},"medical-journal","Medical Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#medical-journal","Doctor Simeon's account of his medical practice. Simeon’s patient in this entry is Elina, Ivo’s daughter at the farm south of the city. This identifies the family later addressed by his warning about Vicho; it is a patient history within the story.",[4578],{"title":4579,"text":4580},"Doctor Simeon’s Medical Journal","(...) I'm glad that Ivo decided to contact me rather than ask a ‘wise’ woman for help. It is unsettling how many people still depend on some old crone’s muddled advice rather than ask a professional medicus! Luckily for young Elina, her father is cleverer…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4582},"Medical Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[4586],{"kind":31,"name":4587,"path":3775},"The warning to Ivo",{"slug":4589,"name":4590,"path":4473,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4591,"excerpts":4592,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":1360,"sellValue":66,"icon":4595,"categories":4597,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4598,"relations":4599},"meditations-on-the-superiority-of-vrakhiri-over-men","Meditations on the Superiority of Vrakhiri Over Men","Written and circulated on Knyaz Brencis's orders. The author recasts aversion to silver as refined taste and nocturnal habits as a preference for dreams over labour, then proposes turning all silver into gold. The Manumit Manifesto treats those same traits as vulnerabilities rather than signs of superiority.",[4593],{"title":4590,"text":4594},"Silver has been believed to ward off evil spirits. But I think this is a misconception. Alchemists established long ago that silver is less valuable, less pure and in all other ways inferior to gold. Why, then, do vrakhiri detest silver, but not gold? I…",{"src":2457,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4596},"Meditations on the Superiority of Vrakhiri Over Men inventory icon",[6],[],[4600,4602],{"kind":31,"name":4601,"path":2266},"The rebels’ opposing reading",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":4604,"name":4605,"path":4606,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4607,"excerpts":4608,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":107,"icon":4611,"categories":4613,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4614,"relations":4615},"meeting-note","Meeting Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#meeting-note","A letter about a vague but enticing proposition. Sil asks Kat to meet on the hill near the swamp in Tantari Woods after a discovery promising wealth. Compare Offer and Thug's Journal for the other accounts of lights, treasure-seekers and the people waiting for them.",[4609],{"title":4605,"text":4610},"Kat, meet me in Tantari Woods, on the hill near the swamp. You know where. I discovered something – you won't believe me until you see it with your own eyes. Let's just say you won't need to count your denarii ever again. - Sil",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4612},"Meeting Note inventory icon",[6],[],[4616,4619,4622],{"kind":31,"name":4617,"path":4618},"Offer","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#offer",{"kind":31,"name":4620,"path":4621},"Thug's Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#thugs-journal",{"kind":31,"name":4623,"path":4624},"Tantari Woods","\u002Flocations\u002Ftantari-woods",{"slug":4626,"name":2069,"path":2070,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4627,"excerpts":4628,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":1305,"sellValue":167,"icon":4631,"categories":4633,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4634,"relations":4635},"merchants-letter","A soon-to-be-father's letter to his loved one. Matei promises Alexandra that this is his final delivery before returning home and plans to buy baby clothes in Svartrau. Merchant's Note shows the different family pressure behind an urgent delivery to Maragir.",[4629],{"title":2069,"text":4630},"Alexandra, I know this will be the third letter reaching you saying the same thing, but I give you my word this time – I’ll be home this month. This is the last delivery. I told him: No more, I need a break. I will stand by it, I promise you. I'll buy some…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4632},"Merchant's Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[4636],{"kind":31,"name":4637,"path":4638},"Merchant's Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#merchants-note",{"slug":4640,"name":1332,"path":1333,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4641,"excerpts":4642,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":167,"icon":4645,"categories":4647,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4648,"relations":4649},"merchants-missive","A note about some new customers the merchant is very happy with. Jereno tells Weyri that the mountain goatmen are unusually profitable customers and offers to introduce their fabrics. Read Bounty Hunter's Contract for a very different relationship between local rulers and a kobold colony.",[4643],{"title":4637,"text":4644},"Weyri, We’re going to be fine, mate. I never thought the mountain goatmen would be what saves my business, but here we are. Never had better customers – anything they need and want, they want three times as much of it as a regular customer, and never think…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4646},"Merchant's Missive inventory icon",[6],[],[4650],{"kind":31,"name":1320,"path":1321},{"slug":4652,"name":4637,"path":4638,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4653,"excerpts":4654,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":438,"sellValue":107,"icon":4658,"categories":4660,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4661,"relations":4662},"merchants-note","Seems like he's quite desperate. Stribor asks Milosh to hurry through the woods to the Maragir post because Dana needs medicine before the next blood mass. The letter ties the merchant's urgency to a household illness.",[4655],{"title":4656,"text":4657},"A Pleading Note from a Merchant","Milosh, We need the goods I ordered as soon as possible. Please, make haste to your Maragir post – take a shortcut through the woods. I know it’s safer to stick to the roads, but I’ll pay you extra if you get here by Wednesday. Dana is not feeling all too…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4659},"Merchant's Note inventory icon",[6],[],[4663],{"kind":31,"name":2069,"path":2070},{"slug":4665,"name":4666,"path":4667,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4668,"excerpts":4669,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":273,"icon":4672,"categories":4674,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4675,"relations":4676},"message-from-c","Message from C.","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#message-from-c","It's signed only with an initial and talks about overthrowing the vrakhiri. C. acknowledges desertion among the rebels but urges them to hold out against the vrakhiri. Missive from Bakir describes the rulers' pursuit of the manumits and their leader from the opposing side.",[4670],{"title":4666,"text":4671},"Men, There’s talk of desertion among our ranks. Some of you feel helpless, and I understand that. But remember why we fight these monsters. If we give up now, this struggle will never end. Hold fast a little longer. Soon, the vrakhiri will be no more, I…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4673},"Message from C. inventory icon",[6],[],[4677],{"kind":31,"name":4678,"path":4679},"Missive from Bakir","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#missive-from-bakir",{"slug":4681,"name":4682,"path":4683,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4684,"excerpts":4685,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":167,"icon":4689,"categories":4691,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4692,"relations":4693},"message-of-hope","Message of Hope","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#message-of-hope","A call to fight against the vrakhiri. The writers fled Maragir after the vrakhiri punished opposition and intend to regroup before returning. Compare An Unsent Letter for a named noble's account of escaping the same takeover.",[4686],{"title":4687,"text":4688},"A Message of Hope","We are leaving this note as a testament to our unyielding spirits – although the vrakhiri took over Maragir and punished everyone who opposed, we decided to run and live to fight another day. Because there will be another day! We are the people of Vale…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4690},"Message of Hope inventory icon",[6],[],[4694],{"kind":31,"name":515,"path":516},{"slug":4696,"name":4697,"path":4698,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4699,"excerpts":4700,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":1024,"sellValue":22,"icon":4703,"categories":4706,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4707,"relations":4708},"mevassers-notes","Mevasser's Notes","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#mevassers-notes","Rabbi Mevasser's personal scribbles Mevasser describes repeated Jewish displacement and scapegoating for poisoned wells, missing children and plague. His account places Vale Sangora within that wider experience. The Tatars of Vale Sangora introduces another minority community and the history behind its presence in the valley.",[4701],{"title":4697,"text":4702},"First they tore down our temple, took us under their boots... And they kept doing it – again and again. They made us wander across the world, ceaselessly looking for a place to stay and never finding one. 'Fine,' we said. 'We'll manage.' Then, centuries…",{"src":4704,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4705},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBN8.webp","Mevasser's Notes inventory icon",[6],[],[4709,4712,4713],{"kind":31,"name":4710,"path":4711},"The valley’s Tatar community","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-tatars-of-vale-sangora",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":4715,"name":4716,"path":4717,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":4718,"excerpts":4719,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":1058,"sellValue":48,"icon":4723,"categories":4725,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4726,"relations":4727},"mihais-journal","Mihai's Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fmihais-journal","Notes made by the dawnwalker Mihai.",[4720],{"title":4721,"text":4722},"Mihai's Notes","The sword’s broken. Smiths in Sangora not capable of fixing it - maybe ask the uriashi in the mountains? Need a guide. Repairs must wait. First, going with Tobias to Maragir. Something’s killing people in the swamps. Not for long.",{"src":126,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4724},"Mihai's Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[4728],{"kind":31,"name":1210,"path":1211},{"slug":4730,"name":4731,"path":4732,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4733,"excerpts":4734,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":862,"sellValue":273,"icon":4738,"categories":4740,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4741,"relations":4742},"military-orders","Military Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#military-orders","Recently issued. Pribislav orders Janos to wait at the mine entrance and escort the newly turned Coen to Laslea that night. The note explains the soldiers’ presence at the exit and Brencis’s interest in his new “son” during the opening events.",[4735],{"title":4736,"text":4737},"Orders: Escort","Janos, You are to stand guard by the mine entrance. Once the young vrakhir emerges, bring him to Laslea right away. The knyaz wishes to see his new son this very night. Proceed with caution. The vrakhir may be newly formed, but will make a formidable enemy…",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4739},"Military Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[4743,4746],{"kind":31,"name":4744,"path":4745},"Coen’s prologue","\u002Fquests#withering-away",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":4748,"name":4749,"path":4750,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4751,"excerpts":4752,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":4758,"categories":4760,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4761,"relations":4762},"military-report","Military Report","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#military-report","Document concerning the recent prison break from one of Ambrus's dungeons. Two versions describe the aftermath of the prison break in Judge and Executioner. In one, Branko has disappeared; in the other, he was left in the cells and died without wounds. Both identify him as the soldiers’ informer, connecting the report to the prisoner decision.",[4753,4756],{"title":4754,"text":4755},"Report: Prison Break","Sir, I’m writing to inform you on the results of our investigation regarding the recent prison break. We came across multiple signs of struggle, indicating that our men were overwhelmed in a direct attack. The cells were empty of prisoners. The whereabouts…",{"title":4754,"text":4757},"Sir, I’m writing to inform you on the results of our investigation regarding the recent prison break. We came across multiple signs of struggle, indicating that our men were overwhelmed in a direct attack. The cells were empty of prisoners – with the…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4759},"Military Report inventory icon",[6],[],[4763,4766],{"kind":31,"name":4764,"path":4765},"Judge and Executioner","\u002Fquests#ambruss-dungeons-judge-and-executioner",{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":4768,"name":4769,"path":1771,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4770,"excerpts":4771,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":1110,"sellValue":48,"icon":4774,"categories":4777,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4778,"relations":4779},"millers-arrest-report","Miller's Arrest Report","A report written by a soldier. Goran identifies the prisoner as Mert, the mill owner near Laslea, and names Stoneward Post as his destination. Follow Mert’s story from there; the report supplies a concrete lead beyond the missing flour delivery.",[4772],{"title":4769,"text":4773},"Commander, As ordered, we paid a visit to Mert, the owner of the mill near Laslea. Of course, he denied having any connection with the manumits. Per your wishes, we took the miller to the Stoneward Post – let Friedo get the truth out of him, he’s good at it.…",{"src":4775,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4776},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBBL2.webp","Miller's Arrest Report inventory icon",[6],[],[4780],{"kind":31,"name":1773,"path":1774},{"slug":4782,"name":610,"path":611,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4783,"excerpts":4784,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":167,"icon":4787,"categories":4789,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4790,"relations":4791},"miners-diary","Life is not easy down in the mine. The miner describes a deeper vein, a groaning mountain and an unsupported lower shaft that needs more timber. The diary connects the threatened collapse with pressure to keep ore moving for the collector's tithe.",[4785],{"title":610,"text":4786},"Another lovely day in the pit. The new vein runs deep, but it’s harder to mine with every strike. The mountain itself seems to groan louder each day, as if warning us. The overseer doesn’t care for excuses, though. We must clear the lower shaft and haul the…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4788},"Miner's Diary inventory icon",[6],[],[4792],{"kind":31,"name":597,"path":598},{"slug":4794,"name":4795,"path":2904,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4796,"excerpts":4797,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":1305,"sellValue":273,"icon":4800,"categories":4802,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4803,"relations":4804},"missing-delivery","Missing Delivery","A note detailing Mert's possible whereabouts. The missing supplies came from Sloughside Mill. The writer suspects Mert’s capture; the Miller’s Arrest Report supplies the confirmed name and Stoneward Post destination that this message only anticipates.",[4798],{"title":4795,"text":4799},"The last delivery from Sloughside Mill never reached us. After failure in Laslea, we suspect the soldiers might have caught Mert. If so, he has been taken to a nearby post and there’s little hope we can break him free. That bloody place is swarming with…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4801},"Missing Delivery inventory icon",[6],[],[4805,4807],{"kind":31,"name":4806,"path":1771},"Confirmed arrest destination",{"kind":31,"name":1773,"path":1774},{"slug":4809,"name":3238,"path":3239,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4810,"excerpts":4811,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":273,"icon":4815,"categories":4817,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4818,"relations":4819},"missive-from-ambrus","Hastily written. Ambrus identifies Coen of Laslea as the man attacking his operations and warns that he is especially dangerous after dusk. He also admits the blood stores are running low. The Inspirational Message shows the standing orders for the guards charged with protecting those cellars.",[4812],{"title":4813,"text":4814},"Reproof","To all my subordinates, The man behind the insolent attacks on my operations has been identified as one Coen of Laslea. Do not be fooled by his youthful appearance – he’s dangerous, especially come dusk. Do all in your might to stop him from causing further…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4816},"Missive from Ambrus inventory icon",[6],[],[4820,4821],{"kind":31,"name":3225,"path":3226},{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":4823,"name":4678,"path":4679,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4824,"excerpts":4825,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":273,"icon":4829,"categories":4831,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4832,"relations":4833},"missive-from-bakir","Addressed to Knyaz Brencis. Bakir tells Brencis that he is suppressing the manumits and pursuing their leader, Crake. Read the rebels' own Message from C. alongside it for the other side of the struggle over morale and desertion.",[4826],{"title":4827,"text":4828},"A Letter from Bakir to Brencis","My Knyaz, As expected, the rebel vermin are causing us trouble again – but as you very aptly said yourself, they are just humans and they make many mistakes. Like dogs, they yap and yap and yap, wanting to be noticed. And so we give them the attention they…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4830},"Missive from Bakir inventory icon",[6],[],[4834,4835,4836],{"kind":31,"name":4666,"path":4667},{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":4838,"name":4839,"path":3941,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4840,"excerpts":4841,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":4845,"categories":4847,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4848,"relations":4849},"missive-from-xanthe","Missive from Xanthe","A cryptic warning to a soldier. The warning concerns the creatures beneath the nearby mountains, described as hungry for blood and marrow. Read Letter from Xanthe for the ancient-treasure objective behind the captain’s presence there.",[4842],{"title":4843,"text":4844},"Orders from Xanthe","Captain, I see the thread of your life, silvery and thin, about to snap, cut by crooked claws. Beware of the nearby mountains, beware of what lies beneath them. I sense great hunger, great yearning for blood and marrow. Be vigilant, or you shall become prey…",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4846},"Missive from Xanthe inventory icon",[6],[],[4850,4852],{"kind":31,"name":4851,"path":3929},"The captain’s objective",{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":4854,"name":4855,"path":4856,"detail":13,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":13,"answered":13,"description":4857,"excerpts":4858,"rarity":183,"material":18,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":4859,"categories":4861,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4862,"relations":4863},"monastery-map","Monastery Map","\u002Fitems#monastery-map","Gives an overview of St. Tyna's convent.",[],{"src":408,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4860},"Monastery Map inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":4865,"name":4866,"path":4867,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":4868,"excerpts":4869,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":273,"icon":4873,"categories":4875,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4876,"relations":4877},"monks-journal","Monk’s Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fmonks-journal","Handwritten. From the time of Shrike's Crag uprising. Anselme gives an exact lead: he hid Father Foulcard’s bag at the back of Shrike’s Crag quarry near a crane. The account explains his flight from the abbey and why he left the bag there.",[4870],{"title":4871,"text":4872},"A Monk’s Journal","I write these words in case I do not survive. My name is Anselme. I am a monk on pilgrimage in Vale Sangora. I stayed in an abbey near Maragir. One night, soldiers came, sent by Brencis, the new knyaz of the valley. They started rounding everyone up,…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4874},"Monk’s Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[4878,4880],{"kind":31,"name":4879,"path":4867},"Follow the quarry bag clue",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":4882,"name":4883,"path":3136,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4884,"excerpts":4885,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":3917,"sellValue":22,"icon":4888,"categories":4891,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4892,"relations":4893},"mormo-and-the-tale-of-cursed-silver","Mormo and the Tale of Cursed Silver","Freshly copied. Mormo exposes herself to Charon by offering a silver coin instead of a mortal’s bronze payment. The ferryman curses her and all blood-feeders to suffer from silver. How Uktash Met Nassur tells another silver-origin myth, this time through a serpent’s discarded skin.",[4886],{"title":4883,"text":4887},"A long, long time ago, there was an evil spirit, Mormo, who fed on human blood. But no matter how much she drank, she could never satisfy her thirst. Restless and desperate, she decided to descend to the Underworld and feed on human souls, hoping that their…",{"src":4889,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4890},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBN3.webp","Mormo and the Tale of Cursed Silver inventory icon",[6],[],[4894,4896],{"kind":31,"name":4895,"path":2211},"Nassur and the silver vein",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":4898,"name":3594,"path":3595,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4899,"excerpts":4900,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":167,"icon":4903,"categories":4905,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4906,"relations":4907},"motivational-letter","Rebel's hopeful message. The writer appeals to a wavering rebel to remain with the resistance for the sake of their families and fallen companions. Last Journal Page shows similar efforts to preserve morale in a tower running out of supplies.",[4901],{"title":3594,"text":4902},"You can’t give up now. You can’t. I put my arse on the line to get you these. I heard from Nimir that you’re whispering about desertion. But it’s not desertion, it’s abandoning us. Abandoning me. And every one of us who had bled and died for us to get to…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4904},"Motivational Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[4908],{"kind":31,"name":3582,"path":3583},{"slug":4910,"name":4911,"path":4912,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4913,"excerpts":4914,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":21,"sellValue":22,"icon":4917,"categories":4919,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4920,"relations":4921},"mouldy-page","Mouldy Page","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#mouldy-page","Barely legible. The cellar survivor records Rina’s decline from apparent health at dawn to death by dusk, then a desperate attempt to treat Adina by heating her in an oven. The fragment shows the human cost of plague panic; the longer plague essay records a scholar’s very different explanation.",[4915],{"title":4911,"text":4916},"The scriptures were true – the world has come to an end. It's been days, maybe weeks. However many. Cellar walls seem to be moving, closing in on me. The stench of rot is getting stronger. Could be remnants of my food. God willing. Otherwise, it’s… them. I…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4918},"Mouldy Page inventory icon",[6],[],[4922,4925],{"kind":31,"name":4923,"path":4924},"A contemporary account of the plague’s spread","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#on-the-origin-and-spread-of-the-plague",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":4927,"name":2612,"path":2613,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":4928,"excerpts":4929,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":4932,"categories":4934,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4935,"relations":4936},"mysterious-instruction","A very pious reading list.",[4930],{"title":2612,"text":4931},"From Life of St. Cuthbert – 13th word From Life of St. Tyna – 9th word From Life of St. Mihai – 2nd word from the end From Life of St. Tobias – 12th word From Life of St. Teotim – 22nd word from the end From Life of St. Anthony – 31st word From Life of St.…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4933},"Mysterious Instruction inventory icon",[6],[],[4937],{"kind":31,"name":1210,"path":1211},{"slug":4939,"name":4940,"path":4941,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":4942,"excerpts":4943,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":4947,"categories":4949,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4950,"relations":4951},"mysterious-letter","Mysterious Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fmysterious-letter","Something is afoot – but what?",[4944],{"title":4945,"text":4946},"Dead Drop Letter","L. They know that you’re in Sangora. Considering your past, I know you’ll be as careful as possible. Your instructions are clear: watch and make notes. Do not intervene directly. Do not alert Brencis to your presence. Good luck. N.",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4948},"Mysterious Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[4952],{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":4954,"name":1893,"path":1894,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4955,"excerpts":4956,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":273,"icon":4959,"categories":4961,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4962,"relations":4963},"names-for-passage","A list of people who paid to be moved beyond Vale Sangora. The list names the Dragoi family and Alana Moraru with her daughter Florica as passengers leaving the valley. Their confirmation seals stand for payment for passage within this arrangement.",[4957],{"title":1893,"text":4958},"The following folk are to be moved beyond the valley: – Bogda Dragoi, Ivan Dragoi, and their son Svyatoslav; – Alana Moraru and her daughter, Florica. They shall present their seals of confirmation, proving payment for safe passage. Ask them no questions.…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4960},"Names for Passage inventory icon",[6],[],[4964],{"kind":31,"name":1881,"path":1882},{"slug":4966,"name":4967,"path":4968,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4969,"excerpts":4970,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":107,"icon":4973,"categories":4975,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4976,"relations":4977},"neighbours-final-message","Neighbour's Final Message","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#neighbours-final-message","A letter to a dead man. The neighbour's grievance is a stolen hen sold at market, and the final message claims revenge for it. It explains the household feud behind the letter's hostility.",[4971],{"title":4967,"text":4972},"You prick, You thought you could nick my chickens and I wouldn’t notice? My damned hen, keeping my boys alive? Did you think I wouldn’t find out you sold it at the market the day after it ‘escaped’? What kind of a fool do you take me for? I’ve taken your…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4974},"Neighbour's Final Message inventory icon",[6],[],[4978],{"kind":31,"name":669,"path":670},{"slug":4980,"name":1440,"path":1441,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":4981,"excerpts":4982,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":3917,"sellValue":252,"icon":4986,"categories":4988,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":4989,"relations":4990},"new-orders","Communication between Brencis's soldiers. Gunwald passes the shrine-destruction policy to Conbert, specifically naming worship of Tyna and Mihai and the prison destination at Greifberg. Read it after Brencis’s formal decree to see how the policy reaches soldiers in the field.",[4983],{"title":4984,"text":4985},"Updated Orders","Conbert, I know you’ve been busy lately, so you might have missed the new orders – all the roadside shrines devoted to the old saints are to be destroyed by the order of our Knyaz. Seems like the vrakhiri are fed up with all the blasphemers who claim to be…",{"src":3642,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":4987},"New Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[4991,4993,4996],{"kind":31,"name":4992,"path":1420},"Formal shrine decree",{"kind":31,"name":4994,"path":4995},"Mihai and his sword","\u002Fweapons\u002Frestored-sword-of-st-mihai",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":4998,"name":4999,"path":5000,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5001,"excerpts":5002,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":167,"icon":5005,"categories":5007,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5008,"relations":5009},"new-orders-from-ambrus","New Orders from Ambrus","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#new-orders-from-ambrus","Signed by the boyar himself. Ambrus abandons earlier duties and orders an ambush for Coen outside a leech-collector camp. The letter directly connects the retaliation with attacks on his collectors. It explains the hostile response; the Ambrus guide covers the broader route to confronting the boyar.",[5003],{"title":1440,"text":5004},"Whatever your prior orders were – disregard them. Your sole objective now is to track down and kill Coen of Laslea – and make sure he suffers a fair bit before landing the final blow. I’m a patient man but this bastard has crossed one line too many. He has…",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5006},"New Orders from Ambrus inventory icon",[6],[],[5010,5011],{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"kind":31,"name":5012,"path":1190},"Blood-storage orders",{"slug":5014,"name":5015,"path":5016,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5017,"excerpts":5018,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":273,"icon":5021,"categories":5023,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5024,"relations":5025},"new-rations-policy","New Rations Policy","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#new-rations-policy","Orders to Brencis's soldiers. The order cuts soldiers’ rations by a quarter and reduces meat from weekly to once every two weeks during winter preparations. Criticism is classed as insubordination. Compare For Knyaz and Country for the optimistic message used to sustain the same army’s morale.",[5019],{"title":5015,"text":5020},"Soldiers! Due to ongoing preparations for the winter, rations in the coming weeks are going to be lowered by a quarter. From now on, you will only be getting meat once a fortnight instead of once a week. Any criticism of the new rations policy will be…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5022},"New Rations Policy inventory icon",[6],[],[5026,5028],{"kind":31,"name":5027,"path":2567},"The army’s morale notice",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":5030,"name":5031,"path":5032,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5033,"excerpts":5034,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":85,"sellValue":824,"icon":5038,"categories":5041,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5042,"relations":5043},"news-from-maragir","News from Maragir","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#news-from-maragir","Communication between Brencis's soldiers. Sergeant Bodin orders Dimir to investigate soldiers killed while leaving Maragir, despite the army’s strong hold on the village. He suspects someone is passing information to the rebels. On Crake’s Identity later rejects the rumour that a Maragir baker is Crake.",[5035],{"title":5036,"text":5037},"Tidings from Maragir","Dimir, We lost a couple of lads when they were travelling out of Maragir. Surprising, considering that our hold on the village is quite strong and we have no information about manumits fucking about near this place. But the dead bodies serve as clear proof…",{"src":5039,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5040},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBBL13.webp","News from Maragir inventory icon",[6],[],[5044,5046],{"kind":31,"name":5045,"path":2530},"The Maragir baker rumour",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":5048,"name":5049,"path":5050,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5051,"excerpts":5052,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":232,"buyValue":1110,"sellValue":252,"icon":5055,"categories":5058,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5059,"relations":5060},"no-flying-dragons","No Flying Dragons","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#no-flying-dragons","Preowned and stained. The tale explains swamp-dwelling monsters as dragons cast down by a god, their wings rotted away in the mire. It turns the absence of flying dragons into an origin story for dangers below the water. Wisdom of the Mire gives another account of a strange encounter in the marshes.",[5053],{"title":5049,"text":5054},"There was a time when dragons invaded the sky. They hunted the helpless – the slow of step, the meek of heart, the faithful who bowed their heads in prayer. Their wings blackened the sun; their breath filled the air with ash. The land cried out, but men…",{"src":5056,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5057},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBW12.webp","No Flying Dragons inventory icon",[6],[],[5061,5064],{"kind":31,"name":5062,"path":5063},"Another mire legend","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#wisdom-of-the-mire",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":5066,"name":5067,"path":5068,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5069,"excerpts":5070,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":862,"sellValue":167,"icon":5073,"categories":5075,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5076,"relations":5077},"no-stealing","No Stealing","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#no-stealing","Orders to Brencis's soldiers. The barracks notice threatens thieves with hanging the following morning and promises rewards for informants. Rewards for Your Duty extends that incentive system to other service, showing how the army combines punishment with paid reporting.",[5071],{"title":5067,"text":5072},"Soldiers! There have been several cases of theft in the barracks. This will not be tolerated. Be warned - anyone caught stealing shall be hanged the next morning. And anyone who shares information about a thief may expect to be rewarded.",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5074},"No Stealing inventory icon",[6],[],[5078,5080],{"kind":31,"name":5079,"path":1496},"The army’s reward policy",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":5082,"name":5083,"path":5084,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5085,"excerpts":5086,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":273,"icon":5089,"categories":5091,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5092,"relations":5093},"noblemans-scribbles","Nobleman's Scribbles","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#noblemans-scribbles","Notes of a man who's constantly on edge. Fugitive nobles hide in a rundown lodge and hear something circling them at night. The writer cannot identify the pursuer; Bounty Hunter's Contract supplies separate context for violent encounters around kobold colonies.",[5087],{"title":5083,"text":5088},"I thought the lodge was our salvation – the vrakhiri wouldn’t be looking for nobles in a rundown shack. But I’m starting to have my doubts… it sounds, especially at night, like something’s lurking around here, circling us. Do the vrakhiri know we’re hiding…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5090},"Nobleman's Scribbles inventory icon",[6],[],[5094],{"kind":31,"name":1320,"path":1321},{"slug":5096,"name":5097,"path":5098,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5099,"excerpts":5100,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":273,"icon":5104,"categories":5106,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5107,"relations":5108},"note-about-ambrus","Note About Ambrus","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#note-about-ambrus","Praises the boyar's actions. The writer welcomes Ambrus’s attacks on wealthy nobles and believes ordinary people will be spared if they behave obediently. The note captures support for the boyar among some residents. The Short Letter offers a harsher view of the same hostility toward aristocrats through the treatment of Voiescu.",[5101],{"title":5102,"text":5103},"Note about Ambrus","People been throwing a wobbly about Boyar Ambrus, but they're all blind sods, every last one of 'em. Even I can tell he won't go after folk like us. The nobles, sure, the rich bastards, but not us! And good thing, too! Just keep your head down, act decent,…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5105},"Note About Ambrus inventory icon",[6],[],[5109,5112],{"kind":31,"name":5110,"path":5111},"Short Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#short-letter",{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":5114,"name":3341,"path":3342,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5115,"excerpts":5116,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":107,"icon":5120,"categories":5122,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5123,"relations":5124},"note-about-codrin","Discusess current affairs in Maragir. The writer says Iulian Codrin has retained influence around Maragir despite the boyar’s violence against other nobles. Seeing a familiar figure in power provides the writer with uneasy reassurance. Codrin’s own transport instructions show the practical work he performs for Ambrus.",[5117],{"title":5118,"text":5119},"Note about Codrin","Codrin still has some say about what happens round Maragir. The boyar bit the heads off other nobles, I've heard, but Codrin weaseled his way out somehow. Didn't think I'd ever say it, but there’s something calming about seeing a familiar face up there.…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5121},"Note About Codrin inventory icon",[6],[],[5125],{"kind":31,"name":3326,"path":3327},{"slug":5127,"name":5128,"path":5129,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5130,"excerpts":5131,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":107,"icon":5135,"categories":5137,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5138,"relations":5139},"note-about-manumit-activity","Note About Manumit Activity","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#note-about-manumit-activity","Soldier correspondence. Reties identifies increased manumit activity on the border between Xanthe's and Bakir's fiefdoms and asks Harok to coordinate searches. Search for Manumit Caches describes the complementary search inside Svartrau.",[5132],{"title":5133,"text":5134},"Note about Manumit Activity","Harok, There’s increased manumit activity on the border of Boyaress Xanthe and Boyar Bakir’s fiefdoms. I’ve brought more of my men over to search the area from our side – you have to do the same. These people are up to something, and whatever it is, we must…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5136},"Note About Manumit Activity inventory icon",[6],[],[5140,5141,5142],{"kind":31,"name":3256,"path":3257},{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":5144,"name":5145,"path":5146,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5147,"excerpts":5148,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":273,"icon":5151,"categories":5153,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5154,"relations":5155},"note-about-the-millers-ring","Note about the Miller's Ring","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#note-about-the-millers-ring","A letter to a potential buyer. Lerto has obtained the miller’s ring and is demanding a higher payment from Bemon, who wants it for his wedding. This explains why the ring has left the miller’s possession; follow the ring’s own entry for its part in Mert’s story.",[5149],{"title":5145,"text":5150},"Bemon, It took a lot of effort and flexing my spine to get this thing, but I’ve managed. Right before Boyar Bakir’s men got a hold of it, mind you – so it was a time-sensitive task. What I’m saying is – I’ll need you to pay double our agreed-upon price for…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5152},"Note about the Miller's Ring inventory icon",[6],[],[5156,5159],{"kind":31,"name":5157,"path":5158},"Wedding Ring","\u002Fitems\u002Fwedding-ring",{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":5161,"name":5162,"path":5163,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":5164,"excerpts":5165,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":5168,"categories":5170,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5171,"relations":5172},"note-for-ambrus","Note for Ambrus","\u002Fitems\u002Fnote-for-ambrus","Report for Ambrus about a new vrakhir in Svartrau.",[5166],{"title":5162,"text":5167},"Sir, I'm writing to report there are rumours about a new vrakhir in Vale Sangora. If hearsay shared among our men is to be believed, she was last seen by the north-eastern wall in Svartrau, asking about uriashi guards. Say the word and I'll do my best to…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5169},"Note for Ambrus inventory icon",[6],[],[5173],{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":5175,"name":5176,"path":5177,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":5178,"excerpts":5179,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":5183,"categories":5185,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5186,"relations":5187},"note-from-a-shoe","Note From a Shoe","\u002Fitems\u002Fnote-from-a-shoe","A cryptic message hidden on a dead rebel's body. The hidden message tells its recipient to prepare for Lord Catalin’s return across the mountains before winter. The Silver Cache Letter connects that hope of restoration to supplies being carried out of the valley for the Dragosti heir.",[5180],{"title":5181,"text":5182},"A Note from a Shoe","C. Before winter comes, Lord Catalin shall cross the mountains and reclaim his lands. Start preparation for his homecoming.",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5184},"Note From a Shoe inventory icon",[6],[],[5188,5189],{"kind":31,"name":1861,"path":1862},{"kind":31,"name":2513,"path":2514},{"slug":5191,"name":4456,"path":4457,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5192,"excerpts":5193,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":167,"icon":5197,"categories":5199,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5200,"relations":5201},"note-from-rebels","Found in a secret manumit stash. The rebels leave goods for other manumits and ask outsiders to leave them alone. Pair it with Manumit Cache Note to recognise the purpose of these resistance supply messages.",[5194],{"title":5195,"text":5196},"Note to a Fellow Rebel","If you've found this stash, I hope you’re one of us. Feel free to take whatever you need – you’ll find some goods here that should help you survive out there. And if you’re not a manumit – leave it be. We’re fighting a good fight, so if you’re not helping,…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5198},"Note from Rebels inventory icon",[6],[],[5202],{"kind":31,"name":4443,"path":4444},{"slug":5204,"name":5205,"path":5206,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":5207,"excerpts":5208,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":273,"icon":5212,"categories":5214,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5215,"relations":5216},"note-from-sanzhana","Note from Sanzhana","\u002Fitems\u002Fnote-from-sanzhana","Smells of moss and daffodils. If you return to Sanzhana’s former spot with teeth, her note directs you to the Tsarina’s burrow. She has moved there after growing bored with the lack of bandits and teeth to collect, and still wants to trade with visitors bringing teeth.",[5209],{"title":5210,"text":5211},"Message from Sanzhana","Hello friend! Did you come back with teeth for me? I hope you did! And I still want them! Only, I got bored waiting here. No bandits, no teeth to forage, in short - no fun! So I went back to the Tsarina's burrow. That's where you'll find me! If you have the…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5213},"Note from Sanzhana inventory icon",[6],[],[5217],{"kind":31,"name":5218,"path":5219},"Shiny Tooth","\u002Fitems\u002Fshiny-tooth",{"slug":5221,"name":5222,"path":5223,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5224,"excerpts":5225,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":107,"icon":5228,"categories":5230,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5231,"relations":5232},"note-from-the-abandoned-tower","Note from the Abandoned Tower","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#note-from-the-abandoned-tower","Journal of a starving man. The tower's isolated inhabitant is being overwhelmed by vermin eating the remaining food. Tower Owner's Journal describes a different tower resident who actively drove visitors away by staging a wolf sighting.",[5226],{"title":5222,"text":5227},"It’s just me and them. Day in, day out. All I can hear is their squeaking and skittering. I’m trying to get rid of them, I’m killing ten a day, maybe more. Twenty? Thirty? At some point it’s easy to lose count. But there are always more. Sneaking out of…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5229},"Note from the Abandoned Tower inventory icon",[6],[],[5233],{"kind":31,"name":5234,"path":5235},"Tower Owner's Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#tower-owners-journal",{"slug":5237,"name":2935,"path":2936,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5238,"excerpts":5239,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":273,"icon":5242,"categories":5244,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5245,"relations":5246},"note-to-dim","A rather curious short note. G. tells Dim that the goods are hidden beneath a heap of stones. It is a container clue, while Hastily Scribbled Note describes a separate chest beside a fallen tree to the west.",[5240],{"title":2935,"text":5241},"Dim, I’ve hidden all the goods beneath the heap of stones, you know where. Be careful when you fetch them. – G.",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5243},"Note to Dim inventory icon",[6],[],[5247],{"kind":31,"name":2922,"path":2923},{"slug":5249,"name":5250,"path":5251,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5252,"excerpts":5253,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":273,"icon":5256,"categories":5258,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5259,"relations":5260},"oafs-orders","Oaf's Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#oafs-orders","Soldier's final chance. Oret temporarily puts Livic in charge of new guards while taking Malli and Erlin away for the week. The letter explains the change in camp supervision and Livic’s attempt to earn responsibility. Read it alongside Xanthe’s broader orders for the demands being passed down through her forces.",[5254],{"title":5250,"text":5255},"Livic, You wanted a chance to prove you’re capable and worthy of being listened to – here you go. Take the new guys to the guard duty and show them the ropes. I need Malli and Erlin with me for the rest of the week. I want to come back and see everything is…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5257},"Oaf's Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[5261],{"kind":31,"name":5262,"path":340},"Xanthe’s military secrecy",{"slug":5264,"name":4617,"path":4618,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5265,"excerpts":5266,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":232,"buyValue":1343,"sellValue":66,"icon":5269,"categories":5271,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5272,"relations":5273},"offer","A letter about a quick and easy way to get rich. Kornel proposes following the strange lights near Maragir in search of treasure. Read Thug's Journal before following that lead: bandits describe waiting to ambush people drawn toward lights near the swamp.",[5267],{"title":4617,"text":5268},"Trivo, I know we've had our differences in the past – honestly, there were times I wished you dead, and I know you feel the same about me – but hey, there's an opportunity to get filthy rich, so how about we let bygones be bygones? Here's the thing: the odd…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5270},"Offer inventory icon",[6],[],[5274,5275],{"kind":31,"name":4620,"path":4621},{"kind":31,"name":5276,"path":5277},"Wisp encounters","\u002Fcreatures\u002Fwisps",{"slug":5279,"name":1858,"path":1859,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5280,"excerpts":5281,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":1470,"sellValue":167,"icon":5284,"categories":5286,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5287,"relations":5288},"old-letter","An emotional account of the night when Brencis took over Vale Sangora. Damyan tells his mother to flee after the knyaz’s death, taking small valuables and meeting him near the Northern Cleft bridge. He urges her to leave his father behind because his condition would slow her escape. The Craftsman’s Journal records another frightened traveller trying to reach that bridge.",[5282],{"title":1858,"text":5283},"Mother! Something horrible is happening. The knyaz is dead. I don't know who killed him, and I have only heard rumours too preposterous to be true. But death is coming for us, too. For all of us. We must flee before it is too late. Pack as many small…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5285},"Old Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[5289,5290],{"kind":31,"name":1845,"path":1846},{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":5292,"name":5293,"path":5294,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5295,"excerpts":5296,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":107,"icon":5299,"categories":5301,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5302,"relations":5303},"old-letter-from-xanthe","Old Letter from Xanthe","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#old-letter-from-xanthe","Describes the boyaress's dreadful demand. Xanthe orders the people of Old Sheepfold to surrender their youngest daughter before the moon wanes, signing as Lady of the Howling Keep. The demand explains the household's danger without identifying a purpose for taking the child.",[5297],{"title":5293,"text":5298},"To the folk of Old Sheepfold, I command what is long overdue. Bring your youngest daughter before my gates ere the waning of this moon. Fail to do so, and I shall come to your homestead and take her myself. Question not what I require this girl for. Such is…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5300},"Old Letter from Xanthe inventory icon",[6],[],[5304,5305],{"kind":31,"name":1621,"path":1622},{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":5307,"name":5308,"path":5309,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5310,"excerpts":5311,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":862,"sellValue":273,"icon":5315,"categories":5317,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5318,"relations":5319},"old-military-note","Old Military Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#old-military-note","Written to soldiers serving the Dragosti. Matei describes the tower posting as punishment and still invokes the Dragosti family, placing the note within the old garrison’s service. Gambling, alcohol and fistfights are expressly forbidden. Compare it with Final Report for the later soldiers’ refusal to keep fighting after Skender’s fall.",[5312],{"title":5313,"text":5314},"An Old Military Note","Soldiers, Do I need to remind you that being posted in this tower is a punishment? Each and every one of you have shown you’re scum and until you prove otherwise in the line of duty, you will stay in this place, far away from your families and taverns.…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5316},"Old Military Note inventory icon",[6],[],[5320,5321],{"kind":31,"name":2417,"path":2418},{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":5323,"name":5324,"path":5325,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5326,"excerpts":5327,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":107,"icon":5331,"categories":5333,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5334,"relations":5335},"old-missive","Old Missive","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#old-missive","A century-old letter. Dietmar dates Ovidiu Dragosti's defeat of Alexandru Boarescu to 1263 and reports the change of rulers to the Archbishop of Trier. Very Old Letter describes an earlier Boarescu ruler's dealings with the bishopric.",[5328],{"title":5329,"text":5330},"An Old Missive","To His Excellency Heinrich II von Finstingen, the Archbishop-Elector of Trier, My Lord, as you requested, I’ve been keeping a close eye on the political situation in Vale Sangora. I believe that your decision to keep me posted in Svartrau should finally pay…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5332},"Old Missive inventory icon",[6],[],[5336],{"kind":31,"name":5337,"path":5338},"Very Old Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#very-old-letter",{"slug":5340,"name":5341,"path":5342,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5343,"excerpts":5344,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1075,"sellValue":252,"icon":5347,"categories":5349,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5350,"relations":5351},"on-alchemy-and-alchemists","On Alchemy and Alchemists","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#on-alchemy-and-alchemists","Copied in exquisite cursive. The essay argues that Church membership and alchemical study can coexist, naming Albertus Magnus and Roger Bacon. Arnaldus de Villanova’s changing treatment by different popes illustrates how scholarship, reform and accusations of heresy overlap in its account.",[5345],{"title":5341,"text":5346},"Contrary to what many people might think, the Church's teaching and alchemical methods are not mutually exclusive. In fact, many renowned alchemists were priests and monks, like the Dominican friar Albertus Magnus, or the Franciscan Roger Bacon, who, if…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5348},"On Alchemy and Alchemists inventory icon",[6],[],[5352,5354],{"kind":31,"name":5353,"path":4473},"A political proposal based on transmutation",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":5356,"name":5357,"path":2530,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5358,"excerpts":5359,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":167,"icon":5362,"categories":5364,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5365,"relations":5366},"on-crakes-identity","On Crake's Identity","Orders to Brencis's soldiers. This correction explicitly clears Ludvik, a baker living in Maragir, of being Crake. It is the firm conclusion among the army’s identity notices; Intel on Crake contains broader speculation based on an overheard remark about an outsider.",[5360],{"title":5357,"text":5361},"Soldiers! The rumours stating that the traitor known as Crake is in fact a baker by the name of Ludvik, living in Maragir, have been disproven. Continue your search.",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5363},"On Crake's Identity inventory icon",[6],[],[5367,5369,5370],{"kind":31,"name":5368,"path":3393},"The earlier intelligence theories",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":2533,"path":2534},{"slug":5372,"name":3288,"path":3289,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5373,"excerpts":5374,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":124,"sellValue":252,"icon":5377,"categories":5379,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5380,"relations":5381},"on-hellhounds","Xanthe's thoughts on the hellish dogs. The author presents feeding as a way for a keeper to maintain cooperation, with violence returning when blood is withheld. Compare the practical warning in Instructions for the Hound-Keeper with this broader account of hellhound behaviour.",[5375],{"title":3288,"text":5376},"Hellhounds display an uncanny intelligence beyond that of any dog. They appear to comprehend speech as well as dark, evil-born concepts such as hatred and revenge. Yet they know nothing of loyalty, and they refuse most commands, unless those commands happen…",{"src":4889,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5378},"On Hellhounds inventory icon",[6],[],[5382,5384],{"kind":31,"name":5383,"path":3277},"The hound-keeper’s warning",{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":5386,"name":5387,"path":5388,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5389,"excerpts":5390,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":842,"sellValue":201,"icon":5393,"categories":5395,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5396,"relations":5397},"on-heresies","On Heresies","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#on-heresies","Full of righteous anger. This book explains the Church’s opposition to independent religious teaching, naming Bogomils and Cathars. Read it as the doctrinal background to the convent documents, alongside the prioress’s practical response to the crisis.",[5391],{"title":5387,"text":5392},"All of the faithful strive to be closer to God. But in doing so, they need to follow the teachings of the Holy See. Seeking to understand divine designs on their own, they may easily be blinded by the absolute – and lose their way. Such was the case of the…",{"src":2188,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5394},"On Heresies inventory icon",[6],[],[5398],{"kind":31,"name":5399,"path":1292},"St. Tyna’s crisis",{"slug":5401,"name":5402,"path":5403,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":5404,"excerpts":5405,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":200,"sellValue":201,"icon":5408,"categories":5411,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5412,"relations":5413},"on-pixie-dust","On Pixie Dust","\u002Fitems\u002Fon-pixie-dust","The work of a troubled mind.",[5406],{"title":5402,"text":5407},"So far, none of my efforts have borne any fruit. The plague rages on. Neither medicine nor alchemy has brought me closer to finding the cure. Since I'm growing desperate, I intend to try something new. I've read legends about the sanzhani (some call them…",{"src":5409,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5410},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBW8.webp","On Pixie Dust inventory icon",[6],[],[5414],{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":5416,"name":5417,"path":2319,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5418,"excerpts":5419,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1378,"sellValue":201,"icon":5422,"categories":5424,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5425,"relations":5426},"on-ruling-a-realm","On Ruling a Realm","A dusty old book. The work divides society into working commoners, ruling nobles and spiritually guiding clergy, all beneath a sovereign appointed to maintain God’s order. How to Run a Prosperous Manor shows how that hierarchy is used to defend routine violence against peasants.",[5420],{"title":5417,"text":5421},"There are three estates in this world, each with its own distinct purpose, intended by God. The commoners, or peasants, live to work the fields and to be ruled. The nobility keep the commoners in check. And the clergy serve as the bridge between God and man,…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5423},"On Ruling a Realm inventory icon",[6],[],[5427,5429],{"kind":31,"name":5428,"path":3108},"The hierarchy in estate management",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":5431,"name":5432,"path":5433,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":5434,"excerpts":5435,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":5438,"sellValue":201,"icon":5439,"categories":5442,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5443,"relations":5444},"on-the-creation-of-man","On the Creation of Man","\u002Fitems\u002Fon-the-creation-of-man","Definitely not sanctioned by the church.",[5436],{"title":5432,"text":5437},"Midway through creating the world, Andag, Nassur, and Sheema grew tired. At first, they wanted to give up, but then Nassur and Andag spit onto the Earth, and from their saliva the first humans were formed. They provided the gods with a great deal of help,…",48,{"src":5440,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5441},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBR5.webp","On the Creation of Man inventory icon",[6],[],[5445],{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":5447,"name":5448,"path":4924,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5449,"excerpts":5450,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":290,"sellValue":22,"icon":5453,"categories":5455,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5456,"relations":5457},"on-the-origin-and-spread-of-the-plague","On the Origin and Spread of the Plague","Copied in haste. The author traces the disease through Kaffa, Sicily, Italian ports and Marseille, while attributing its beginning to the 1345 conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Keep those two strands distinct: the text combines a route of spread with an astrological prediction about its end.",[5451],{"title":5448,"text":5452},"Despite what I keep hearing from other priests, I don't think it was God's wrath that brought the plague on us. To me, a much more probable culprit is the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn – an event of great astrological significance, which took place…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5454},"On the Origin and Spread of the Plague inventory icon",[6],[],[5458,5460],{"kind":31,"name":5459,"path":4912},"A victim’s experience of the disease",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":5462,"name":5463,"path":5464,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5465,"excerpts":5466,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":1058,"sellValue":22,"icon":5469,"categories":5471,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5472,"relations":5473},"on-wallachias-independence","On Wallachia’s Independence","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#on-wallachias-independence","Dry but informative. The account identifies Basarab’s rejection of Hungarian allegiance and victory at Posada in 1330 as the basis of Wallachian independence. The Hungarian’s Campaign describes an earlier period of conquest in the Carpathians, providing a contrast between the expansion and rejection of Hungarian authority.",[5467],{"title":5463,"text":5468},"Of all the independent states in the Carpathians, Wallachia is the youngest. It was conceived in the mind of a voivode named Basarab, who decided to renounce his allegiance to the Hungarian King. The King, of course, didn't accept this. He sent his army to…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5470},"On Wallachia’s Independence inventory icon",[6],[],[5474,5477],{"kind":31,"name":5475,"path":5476},"Earlier conquest in the Carpathians","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-hungarians-campaign",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":5479,"name":5480,"path":5481,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5482,"excerpts":5483,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":1305,"sellValue":107,"icon":5486,"categories":5488,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5489,"relations":5490},"orders-for-boyar-ambruss-troops","Orders for Boyar Ambrus's Troops","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#orders-for-boyar-ambruss-troops","Instructions for soldiers previously commanded by Ambrus. These orders address Ambrus’s soldiers after they lose their commander. They are to keep their existing duties while awaiting reassignment; the State of the Castle Guard describes the resulting morale problem.",[5484],{"title":5480,"text":5485},"All soldiers previously commanded by Boyar Ambrus are ordered to maintain discipline and perform their regular duties until informed about their new assignments. Any act of insubordination will be considered treason and duly punished.",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5487},"Orders for Boyar Ambrus's Troops inventory icon",[6],[],[5491,5494],{"kind":31,"name":5492,"path":5493},"The castle guard after Ambrus","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#state-of-the-castle-guard",{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":5496,"name":2148,"path":1190,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5497,"excerpts":5498,"rarity":183,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":5501,"categories":5504,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5505,"relations":5506},"orders-from-ambrus","Details the boyar's activities. Ambrus orders careful handling, cool dry storage, leak checks and secrecy around the blood barrels. The warning about rebel attacks explains the guards at the storage facility. Read Blood Transport Orders for a separate shipment explicitly destined for Xanthe’s keep.",[5499],{"title":2148,"text":5500},"Soldier, This is to inform you that you have been assigned to guard our blood storage. Your duties are as follows: - Upon delivery of barrels, unload them with greatest care and ensure they are stored in a cool, dry place - Check for any leaks or seepage -…",{"src":5502,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5503},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBW4.webp","Orders from Ambrus inventory icon",[6],[],[5507,5508],{"kind":31,"name":1176,"path":1177},{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":5510,"name":5511,"path":5512,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5513,"excerpts":5514,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":107,"icon":5518,"categories":5520,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5521,"relations":5522},"orders-from-bakir","Orders from Bakir","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#orders-from-bakir","True to form – grandiose and blood-curdling. Bakir sends his men to hunt manumits in his fiefdom. Report of Suspicious Activity supplies the concrete lead: Dythmar’s farmstead in Rockfalls and wounded visitors arriving at night. The two records connect the broad command with Smoke Them Out’s local investigation.",[5515],{"title":5516,"text":5517},"Orders: Manumits","My fearless men! For months, you lazed about in the barracks, enjoyed the wines we took from nobles's cellars, gorged on venison your human masters denied you. But then you grew restless, listless. For true warriors long to shed blood, dance to the singing…",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5519},"Orders from Bakir inventory icon",[6],[],[5523,5526,5529],{"kind":31,"name":5524,"path":5525},"Suspicious farmstead report","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#report-of-suspicious-activity",{"kind":31,"name":5527,"path":5528},"Smoke Them Out","\u002Fquests#bakirs-headhunters-smoke-them-out",{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":5531,"name":5532,"path":4557,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5533,"excerpts":5534,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":107,"icon":5537,"categories":5539,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5540,"relations":5541},"orders-from-master-aurelius","Orders from Master Aurelius","A note concerning the theft of an old tome – a task ordered by someone named Aurelius. Svetlana relays Aurelius’s order to search beneath St. Tobias’s Cemetery for a book bearing Silas’s name. This is the origin of the search, while the book’s current recovery route continues through Aurelius’s tower after Svetlana.",[5535],{"title":5532,"text":5536},"My master's orders are simple. Retrieve a certain book from the ruins beneath St. Tobias's Cemetery. He believes the old crypts are sealed, so you'll have to dig your way in. Once inside, search for a tome written in a cryptic tongue – I've included a…",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5538},"Orders from Master Aurelius inventory icon",[6],[],[5542,5544],{"kind":31,"name":5543,"path":400},"Recover Silas’s Book",{"kind":31,"name":5545,"path":5546},"Aurelius","\u002Fcharacters\u002Faurelius",{"slug":5548,"name":4843,"path":5549,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5550,"excerpts":5551,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":167,"icon":5555,"categories":5557,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5558,"relations":5559},"orders-from-xanthe","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#orders-from-xanthe","Signed by the boyaress herself. Xanthe demands every recovered object, with containers left closed and inscriptions copied accurately. This explains the handling of antiquities in Past Glory’s transport. Her separate excavation order emphasises secrecy and protection for the workers collecting those objects.",[5552],{"title":5553,"text":5554},"Orders from Boyaress Xanthe","Captain, You will fetch me anything you find. Not just gold, not just gems – all of it. Do not open any containers, do not break any seals. Should you find any paintings or inscriptions, trace them on the vellum I provided, and be accurate. Fail me, and you…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5556},"Orders from Xanthe inventory icon",[6],[],[5560,5563,5565],{"kind":31,"name":5561,"path":5562},"Past Glory","\u002Fquests\u002Fxanthes-transports-past-glory",{"kind":31,"name":5564,"path":340},"Excavation secrecy",{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":5567,"name":5568,"path":5569,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5570,"excerpts":5571,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":107,"icon":5574,"categories":5576,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5577,"relations":5578},"orders-on-the-tantari-mill","Orders on the Tantari Mill","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#orders-on-the-tantari-mill","An annoyed robber baron's instructions for his men. The writer says the attackers killed the wrong miller, then orders them to keep the captured mill as a hideout near Tantari. It is a mistaken raid, distinct from Mert’s arrest at Sloughside Mill. Read the arrest report for Mert’s confirmed destination at Stoneward Post.",[5572],{"title":5568,"text":5573},"You bloody morons! The miller you killed – he wasn't the one the soldiers were after. You stormed the wrong fucking mill! And even if you hadn't, what did you think they were going to do?! Reward you?! You'd have been thrown into a cell at Stoneward Post,…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5575},"Orders on the Tantari Mill inventory icon",[6],[],[5579,5580],{"kind":31,"name":1770,"path":1771},{"kind":31,"name":5581,"path":5582},"Tantari","\u002Fmaps\u002Fvale-sangora#place-941722",{"slug":5584,"name":5585,"path":5586,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5587,"excerpts":5588,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":107,"icon":5592,"categories":5594,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5595,"relations":5596},"orders-pertaining-to-manumit-encampments","Orders Pertaining to Manumit Encampments","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#orders-pertaining-to-manumit-encampments","A soldier's distribution of important information. The scouts are given three search areas for suspected manumit camps: southeast of a river fork near the Middens, across the river from Tantari’s watermill among the rocks, and the swamps in the southwestern Silts. Use those landmarks to follow the orders’ regional leads.",[5589],{"title":5590,"text":5591},"Orders Pertaining Manumit Encampments","Odel, We have reason to suspect there are three encampments nearby harbouring the manumits. We can’t be certain yet, but it’s critical that you keep these areas under close watch. First one: go up the river until you reach its fork. It’s a little south-east…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5593},"Orders Pertaining to Manumit Encampments inventory icon",[6],[],[5597,5598,5601],{"kind":31,"name":5581,"path":5582},{"kind":31,"name":5599,"path":5600},"The Silts","\u002Flocations\u002Fthe-silts",{"kind":31,"name":5602,"path":1910},"Search of the Middens",{"slug":5604,"name":5605,"path":5606,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5607,"excerpts":5608,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":1305,"sellValue":167,"icon":5611,"categories":5613,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5614,"relations":5615},"orders-regarding-carrion-collectors","Orders Regarding Carrion Collectors","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#orders-regarding-carrion-collectors","Orders to Brencis's soldiers. Patrols are instructed to let carrion collectors pass without conversation or questioning because they are acting for the knyaz. The notice explains their exemption from ordinary patrol scrutiny, contrasting with the aggressive orders issued when manumits are suspected.",[5609],{"title":5605,"text":5610},"Soldiers! Should you spot carrion collectors travelling the road while on your patrol, let them pass. Do not talk to them, do not ask questions. Rest assured they're doing the Knyaz's bidding.",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5612},"Orders Regarding Carrion Collectors inventory icon",[6],[],[5616,5618],{"kind":31,"name":5617,"path":4492},"The contrasting order about suspected rebels",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":5620,"name":5621,"path":5622,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5623,"excerpts":5624,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":1378,"sellValue":22,"icon":5627,"categories":5630,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5631,"relations":5632},"orders-to-protect-the-banners","Orders to Protect the Banners","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#orders-to-protect-the-banners","A stern letter demanding action. Nadalrad’s order follows the removal of a gatehouse banner and the deaths of its guards. He demands reprisals and tighter protection for the remaining banners. Read it as the garrison’s reaction to attacks on Brencis’s symbols, alongside the orders targeting older shrines.",[5625],{"title":5621,"text":5626},"Corporal, I’m sure you’re pretty busy these days, but please tell me: is there something wrong with your eyes? Because I walked by your gatehouse yesterday and noticed one important thing missing – the bloody banner! And I hear a few of our boys on duty are…",{"src":5628,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5629},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBG8.webp","Orders to Protect the Banners inventory icon",[6],[],[5633,5635],{"kind":31,"name":5634,"path":1441},"Shrine-destruction policy",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":5637,"name":5638,"path":1910,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5639,"excerpts":5640,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":5644,"categories":5646,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5647,"relations":5648},"orders-to-scour-the-middens","Orders to Scour the Middens","Instructions sending more soldiers to look for the rebels. The soldiers are told to concentrate on the northeastern Middens. Layos is the exception to their arrest order: they are to follow him while letting him believe his infiltration has succeeded. This reveals the threat to the rebels’ hideout.",[5641],{"title":5642,"text":5643},"Orders: Middens","Proceed to the Middens district – focus on the northeastern quarter, where rebel forces are likely to seek the remains of their fallen comrades. Watch for scouts, couriers, or signs of coordinated movement. If you encounter anyone, detain all individuals for…",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5645},"Orders to Scour the Middens inventory icon",[6],[],[5649],{"kind":31,"name":5650,"path":2464},"Svartrau’s underground routes",{"slug":5652,"name":5653,"path":3462,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5654,"excerpts":5655,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":107,"icon":5658,"categories":5660,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5661,"relations":5662},"orders-carrion","Orders: Carrion","Addressed to Bakir's footmen. Captain Ion’s instructions reveal the cargo’s purpose: bodies are left at a cave in daylight for kobolds to consume, while soldiers watch from a distance and prevent witnesses. This is the background to Bakir’s Transports: Curious Shipment; investigate the cargo to follow that activity.",[5656],{"title":5653,"text":5657},"Dispose of the collected carrion in the vicinity of the cave entrance, during daytime. Afterwards, make sure to wash your uniforms thoroughly and then observe the clearing from afar, until all the cadavers are removed from view. Should any kobold break away…",{"src":2881,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5659},"Orders: Carrion inventory icon",[6],[],[5663,5666,5667],{"kind":31,"name":5664,"path":5665},"Curious Shipment","\u002Fquests#bakirs-transports-curious-shipment",{"kind":31,"name":3446,"path":3447},{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":5669,"name":5670,"path":5671,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5672,"excerpts":5673,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":167,"icon":5676,"categories":5678,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5679,"relations":5680},"orders-march-out","Orders: March Out","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#orders-march-out","Military document. The destination in these orders is St. Tyna’s Convent. The commander acknowledges the dangerous situation there but sends the troops anyway, connecting the soldiers’ presence with the sickness described by the pilgrims.",[5674],{"title":5670,"text":5675},"Soldiers, You are to gather supplies and march out for the convent of St. Tyna's. I understand this is a highly risky, perhaps even unwelcome assignment, given the recent reports regarding the situation inside. Yet when duty calls, we are not to question, we…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5677},"Orders: March Out inventory icon",[6],[],[5681],{"kind":31,"name":5682,"path":1564},"Convent bell signals",{"slug":5684,"name":5685,"path":5686,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5687,"excerpts":5688,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":5691,"categories":5693,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5694,"relations":5695},"orders-patrol","Orders: Patrol","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#orders-patrol","Military document. Bohumil sends Lubor and an uriash to investigate lights and sounds where lumberjacks are clearing woods outside Laslea. The forest worksite is the patrol’s destination, and the lumberjacks’ reports are the reason it was dispatched.",[5689],{"title":5685,"text":5690},"Sergeant Lubor, There are reports of disturbing activity in the woods just outside of Laslea. Lumberjacks sent to clear the forest for new fields spoke of unsettling sounds and lights. Maybe they made it all up – you know full well how superstitious these…",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5692},"Orders: Patrol inventory icon",[6],[],[5696],{"kind":31,"name":3791,"path":1685},{"slug":5698,"name":5699,"path":5700,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5701,"excerpts":5702,"rarity":183,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":5706,"categories":5709,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5710,"relations":5711},"orders-rebelss-meeting-point","Orders: Rebels's Meeting Point","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#orders-rebelss-meeting-point","A manumit girl is to be apprehended and interrogated there. The search location is a clearing southeast of the bridge near Stoneward Post. The orders say the lead came from the miller and that a girl may be waiting there. This is the rendezvous connected to Sara’s Shadows in the Woods story.",[5703],{"title":5704,"text":5705},"Orders - Check the Rebels's Meeting Point","Soldiers! You are hereby ordered to investigate a possible manumit meeting point near Stoneward Post: a clearing in the woods southeast of the bridge. The rumour seems credible – we squeezed it out of a rebels's accomplice, the local miller, during his…",{"src":5707,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5708},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBW14.webp","Orders: Rebels's Meeting Point inventory icon",[6],[],[5712],{"kind":31,"name":5713,"path":5714},"Sara’s rendezvous and story","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fsara",{"slug":5716,"name":5717,"path":2019,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5718,"excerpts":5719,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":232,"buyValue":1378,"sellValue":201,"icon":5722,"categories":5725,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5726,"relations":5727},"ovids-exile","Ovid’s Exile","Copied somewhere in Italy. The writer claims an early copy of Metamorphoses contained Dawn and Dusk, then speculates that Ovid’s exile concealed a search for forbidden knowledge. Read the poem itself next: it describes travellers balancing the powers of day and night.",[5720],{"title":5717,"text":5721},"As is well known, the famous poet Ovid was exiled from the Eternal City to the farthest reaches of the Empire, namely to Moesia on the Black Sea. Most think this was because Ovid angered Emperor Augustus by writing the obscene “Art of Love”, but I have come…",{"src":5723,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5724},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBB11.webp","Ovid’s Exile inventory icon",[6],[],[5728,5730],{"kind":31,"name":5729,"path":2005},"Read Dawn and Dusk",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":5732,"name":1738,"path":1739,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5733,"excerpts":5734,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1024,"sellValue":66,"icon":5738,"categories":5740,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5741,"relations":5742},"page-from-a-collectors-journal","Personal notes on some intriguing new additions to the collection. The collector came from Cracow to seek Sangora’s ancient objects and has stayed despite the rulers closing the roads out. His latest acquisition is a pendant bought from Vicho in Svartrau. The Collector’s Notes continue with the purchase negotiations and the strange tremor he feels while examining it.",[5735],{"title":5736,"text":5737},"A Page from a Collector’s Journal","(...) And once more, my collection grows in number. Coming to Vale Sangora was a grand idea – the place is chock-full of trinkets, artefacts, and treasures of historical value. I’m not sure how I’m going to return to Cracow – all roads out of the valley have…",{"src":1285,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5739},"Page from a Collector’s Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[5743,5744],{"kind":31,"name":1735,"path":1736},{"kind":31,"name":1723,"path":1724},{"slug":5746,"name":5747,"path":5748,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5749,"excerpts":5750,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":273,"icon":5754,"categories":5756,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5757,"relations":5758},"painters-diary","Painter's Diary","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#painters-diary","A foreigner's opinions on Sangora. Jacopo da Rimini sees a wolf's shape in the mountain visible from his cottage. His exile from Lombardy and fear of the Malatesta family explain why he remains in Vale Sangora despite longing to leave.",[5751],{"title":5752,"text":5753},"A Painter’s Diary","Oh, how I wish I had my paints and a proper canvas with me. I yearn to paint Vale Sangora. The skies at dusk. The meadows. That mountain looming on the horizon I can see from the humble cottage I shelter in. People see a rocky formation, but I, Jacopo da…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5755},"Painter's Diary inventory icon",[6],[],[5759],{"kind":31,"name":1274,"path":1275},{"slug":5761,"name":5762,"path":5763,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5764,"excerpts":5765,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":1470,"sellValue":273,"icon":5768,"categories":5770,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5771,"relations":5772},"panicked-note","Panicked Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#panicked-note","A rebel's final realisation. The writer identifies Bernold as the informer who brought soldiers into the manumits' refuge at night. The letter records the betrayal as it happens and admits that an earlier warning was ignored.",[5766],{"title":5762,"text":5767},"If you’re reading this, most of the manumits here are dead and I’ve likely joined them. It was Bernold. All this time, just like you said. He led the soldiers inside at night. I can hear the clinking of steel. The screams and everything else. I think they’ll…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5769},"Panicked Note inventory icon",[6],[],[5773],{"kind":31,"name":3582,"path":3583},{"slug":5775,"name":5776,"path":5777,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5778,"excerpts":5779,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":232,"buyValue":65,"sellValue":252,"icon":5782,"categories":5785,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5786,"relations":5787},"path-to-her-salvation","Path to Her Salvation","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#path-to-her-salvation","Xanthe's scribbles about the weird resin and... God knows what else. This short research entry describes resin strengthening a connection while the woman’s pain persists. Read it beside Where We Belong for the researcher’s wider struggle with the boundary beyond ordinary life.",[5780],{"title":5776,"text":5781},"Promising. The resin took quicker. Bound better. Pulling the two apart took effort, so perhaps this time the connection will hold for longer. I pray it does. The pain is still there. I can see it in her eyes.",{"src":5783,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5784},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBW16.webp","Path to Her Salvation inventory icon",[6],[],[5788,5791],{"kind":31,"name":5789,"path":5790},"Where We Belong","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#where-we-belong",{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":5793,"name":5794,"path":5795,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5796,"excerpts":5797,"rarity":183,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":5801,"categories":5803,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5804,"relations":5805},"patient-notes","Patient Notes","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#patient-notes","A list of people who used Simeon's services. These are Simeon’s ordinary appointments and payments, including Costin’s repeated burns and Adela’s unpaid treatment. They help distinguish his daily work from the more consequential account of Ivo’s daughter in Medical Journal.",[5798],{"title":5799,"text":5800},"Doctor Simeon’s Patient Notes","Marcu – broken arm. Reset the bone, applied balm, made a splint. Paid in full. Check-up next week. Costin the blacksmith – burnt elbow. Applied ointment. Paid in full. Costin the blacksmith – burnt left hand. Applied ointment. Paid in full. Adela – recurring…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5802},"Patient Notes inventory icon",[6],[],[5806],{"kind":31,"name":4574,"path":4575},{"slug":5808,"name":5809,"path":5810,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5811,"excerpts":5812,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":21,"sellValue":22,"icon":5816,"categories":5818,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5819,"relations":5820},"persica","Persica","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#persica","Likely the last extant copy. The traveller describes Arimaspian tribes on the steppes claiming descent from heroes who fought vrakhiroi. Monumental tombs and temples persuade him to take those traditions seriously. Arimaspians and Their Secrets expands the interpretation of their wealth, wisdom and battles.",[5813],{"title":5814,"text":5815},"Persica, by Ctesias of Cnidus","The land of the Persians is full of wonders, as can be ascertained by anyone who has travelled to those distant lands. The Persians themselves, however, claim that true miracles lie further to the north of their realm, in the vast steppes spanning Europe and…",{"src":1522,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5817},"Persica inventory icon",[6],[],[5821,5823],{"kind":31,"name":5822,"path":481},"Interpretations of Arimaspian history",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":5825,"name":5826,"path":5827,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5828,"excerpts":5829,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":1470,"sellValue":273,"icon":5833,"categories":5835,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5836,"relations":5837},"pieters-unfinished-letter","Pieter's Unfinished Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#pieters-unfinished-letter","Found hidden in Pieter's secret stash. Pieter connects the family’s misfortunes to deeds committed in Flanders in 1328, but cannot finish the confession. The prayer-book investigation supplies the next step toward learning about his past through Maragir and Volk.",[5830],{"title":5831,"text":5832},"To My Children","They say children are not responsible for the sins of their fathers, yet at the same time we still pay the price for Adam's mistakes. And so, I worry that all the misfortunes that befell us over the years – Alin's passing, Esme's sickness – aren't mere…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5834},"Pieter's Unfinished Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[5838,5841,5844,5845],{"kind":31,"name":5839,"path":5840},"Prayer Book from Maragir","\u002Fitems\u002Fprayer-book-from-maragir",{"kind":31,"name":5842,"path":5843},"Alin","\u002Fcharacters\u002Falin",{"kind":31,"name":3322,"path":3323},{"kind":31,"name":750,"path":751},{"slug":5847,"name":3551,"path":3552,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5848,"excerpts":5849,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":107,"icon":5852,"categories":5854,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5855,"relations":5856},"plague-warning","A note forbidding entry. The notice marks a specific household as condemned under Skender’s plague policy and forbids entry or exit. The longer decree explains that family members were confined with the sick and homes boarded up. Read the two together for the meaning of the warning on the building.",[5850],{"title":3551,"text":5851},"Keep out! The family inside has the plague and therefore was condemned. No one is to enter or leave the building on pain of death. By the order of Knyaz Skender",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5853},"Plague Warning inventory icon",[6],[],[5857,5859],{"kind":31,"name":5858,"path":2834},"Skender’s plague orders",{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":5861,"name":5862,"path":5863,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5864,"excerpts":5865,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":273,"icon":5869,"categories":5871,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5872,"relations":5873},"pleading-letter","Pleading Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#pleading-letter","It's a family matter. The father asks his son to stop chasing old Viel's stories of swamp treasure and look after his siblings while he is in Parlita. Offer records a separate invitation to seek riches around Maragir's strange lights.",[5866],{"title":5867,"text":5868},"A Pleading Letter","My son, Please, keep away from the swamps. I know that old Viel filled your head with all those stories about lost treasures only waiting for someone brave enough to find them – but they are just that, stories! If there was any grain of truth to them, don’t…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5870},"Pleading Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[5874],{"kind":31,"name":4617,"path":4618},{"slug":5876,"name":5877,"path":5878,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5879,"excerpts":5880,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":107,"icon":5883,"categories":5885,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5886,"relations":5887},"poison-weeds","Poison Weeds","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#poison-weeds","Notes treating about poisonous herbs found in the area. This is Vera’s comparison of plants considered for predator bait. Vera’s Lizard Note identifies why the creature matters to Iulian’s plan, while Ritual Instructions describes the later blood-binding stage.",[5881],{"title":5877,"text":5882},"All of these should be within reach. Wolfsbane, known for its gorgeous purple flowers, is easy to find and easy to avoid. But it’s not the flowers that can help deal with the beasts, but the roots. Black hellebore, mixed with fat or honey, can serve as an…",{"src":2589,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5884},"Poison Weeds inventory icon",[6],[],[5888],{"kind":31,"name":5889,"path":2596},"Why Vera needs the lizard",{"slug":5891,"name":5892,"path":5893,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5894,"excerpts":5895,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":5898,"categories":5900,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5901,"relations":5902},"poorly-scribbled-order","Poorly Scribbled Order","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#poorly-scribbled-order","Bakir's order to Farkas concerning a new vrakhir in the valley. Bakir asks Farkas to report an unfamiliar vrakhir near Svartrau’s northeastern wall while making excuses for his own inaction. The missing uriash and the same wall appear in the other two city reports, giving the three documents a common investigation lead.",[5896],{"title":5892,"text":5897},"Farkas, Be a good pet and write me one of those puffed-up, noble-like letters to Brencis. You know the kind – flourish at the top, bootlicking at the bottom. Inform him that some vrakhiri bitch was spotted last night in Svartrau, lurking near the…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5899},"Poorly Scribbled Order inventory icon",[6],[],[5903,5906,5907,5908],{"kind":31,"name":5904,"path":5905},"Report on the Unknown Vrakhir","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#report-on-unknown-vrakhir",{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":5909,"path":5910},"Farkas","\u002Fcharacters\u002Ffarkas",{"slug":5912,"name":5839,"path":5840,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":5913,"excerpts":5914,"rarity":183,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":232,"buyValue":290,"sellValue":201,"icon":5915,"categories":5917,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5919,"relations":5920},"prayer-book-from-maragir","Copied by monks from Maragir.",[],{"src":4189,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5916},"Prayer Book from Maragir inventory icon",[6,5918],"quest-item",[],[5921],{"kind":31,"name":750,"path":751},{"slug":5923,"name":5924,"path":5925,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5926,"excerpts":5927,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":167,"icon":5931,"categories":5933,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5934,"relations":5935},"prayer-to-st-tyna","Prayer to St. Tyna","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#prayer-to-st-tyna","Nowadays no one says it – at least not in public. The prayer asks St. Tyna for protection and peace, emphasizing her kindness to the vulnerable. Read her biography for the childhood healing and wolf episode behind her reputation.",[5928],{"title":5929,"text":5930},"A Prayer to Saint Tyna","O Holy Saint Tyna Your goodness and gentleness have showed us His light on Earth You stood against cruelty and protected the meek You gave hope to the hopeless I beseech you – keep me in your good will And let me find peace both here and in His Kingdom when…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5932},"Prayer to St. Tyna inventory icon",[6],[],[5936],{"kind":31,"name":2700,"path":2701},{"slug":5938,"name":5939,"path":1292,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5940,"excerpts":5941,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":2999,"sellValue":22,"icon":5945,"categories":5947,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5948,"relations":5949},"prioresss-journal","Prioress's Journal","Sheds light on the convent's last days. The entries trace the crisis in order: shortages and polluted water, more sick arrivals, overflowing graves, then the opening of St. Tyna’s coffin. The final entry records the prioress falling ill herself; it explains why the convent’s later condition differs from the institution described in its punishment book.",[5942],{"title":5943,"text":5944},"Mother Bernice's Journal","— Food running short. Cut down rations. Water polluted. More sickness. — More people came. Most sick already. Sisters panicking. Thank God for Leonica and her steady hand. — Anghel dug up more graves. Already full. Running out of space. People are scared.…",{"src":1452,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5946},"Prioress's Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[5950,5952],{"kind":31,"name":5951,"path":1564},"Convent bell signals and route",{"kind":31,"name":5953,"path":5954},"Leonica","\u002Fbosses\u002Fleonica",{"slug":5956,"name":5957,"path":5958,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5959,"excerpts":5960,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":107,"icon":5963,"categories":5965,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5966,"relations":5967},"prison-report","Prison Report","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#prison-report","A note on the state of the dungeons after Boyar Bakir's death. The report describes the prison after Bakir’s death: a new warden has taken over and interrogations have become quieter. It supplies the prison’s changed story context, while the ending guide covers the player’s castle approach.",[5961],{"title":5957,"text":5962},"A new warden has been appointed to oversee the prison, following the demise of Boyar Bakir. Thus far, the man shows little of his predecessor’s enthusiasm for interrogation and rack-work, but it’s no great surprise. The late boyar’s dedication to the art of…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5964},"Prison Report inventory icon",[6],[],[5968,5970],{"kind":31,"name":5969,"path":791},"Castle approach and endings",{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":5972,"name":2347,"path":2348,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5973,"excerpts":5974,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":1343,"sellValue":252,"icon":5977,"categories":5980,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5981,"relations":5982},"proclamation-of-treason","A chilling announcement regarding the fate of one Zlatna. The proclamation identifies the executed resident as Widow Zlatna and gives adherence to the old faith and alleged unrest as the charges. Letter of Denunciation supplies another example of worship inside a home being reported to the authorities.",[5975],{"title":2347,"text":5976},"Hear Ye, Hear Ye Let it be known to all good folk that Widow Zlatna, formerly resident in this house, was tried and found guilty of high treason against our noble knyaz. For stubbornly clinging to the old faith and conspiring to stir unrest throughout the…",{"src":5978,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5979},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBN13.webp","Proclamation of Treason inventory icon",[6],[],[5983],{"kind":31,"name":3978,"path":3979},{"slug":5985,"name":1315,"path":1316,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":5986,"excerpts":5987,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":107,"icon":5990,"categories":5992,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":5993,"relations":5994},"promising-lead","Contains a tip on manumit presence in the vicinity. Captain Matviy orders Sergeant Endres to follow Fedir, a shepherd accused of leading the manumits near Parlita. The informant Roman knows Fedir but cannot name the hideout’s exact location. The actionable lead in the letter is surveillance of the shepherd, rather than a marked camp.",[5988],{"title":1315,"text":5989},"To: Sergeant Endres We received a promising lead from a man called Roman, from Parlita. He approached us with information about a manumit hideout near his village. He doesn't know its exact location, but insisted we'd find it if we followed a shepherd by the…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":5991},"Promising Lead inventory icon",[6],[],[5995],{"kind":31,"name":1298,"path":1299},{"slug":5997,"name":5998,"path":5999,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":6000,"excerpts":6001,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":6004,"categories":6006,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6007,"relations":6008},"property-deed","Property Deed","\u002Fitems\u002Fproperty-deed","Proof of ownership of a warehouse in Altenmarkt.",[6002],{"title":5998,"text":6003},"This document serves as a proof that Doctor Simeon Alatri is the rightful owner of the warehouse building situated at Cross Street in Altenmarkt. The signing of this document by the Doctor and the previous owner, Costin the blacksmith, was witnessed and…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6005},"Property Deed inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":6010,"name":6011,"path":6012,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":6013,"excerpts":6014,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":6017,"categories":6019,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6020,"relations":6021},"razkovniche-potion-recipe","Razkovniche Potion Recipe","\u002Fitems\u002Frazkovniche-potion-recipe","A step-by-step guide to creating a supposed panacea.",[6015],{"title":6011,"text":6016},"A wondrous panacea recipe (conceived by Eusebiu of Oghasti) 1. Take two medium-sized leaves of a well-fed razkovniche, as well as its entire root (don't clean it!). 2. Grind the root in a mortar, then mix the powder with two drops of terebinth oil. 3. Place…",{"src":2589,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6018},"Razkovniche Potion Recipe inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":6023,"name":6024,"path":6025,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6026,"excerpts":6027,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":273,"icon":6031,"categories":6033,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6034,"relations":6035},"rebel-missive","Rebel Missive","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#rebel-missive","A call to fight against the vrakhiri. The missive rejects the claim that the vrakhiri are divinely appointed saviours and calls for collective resistance. Compare Call to Revolt, whose target is the earlier ruler Skender, to distinguish the two appeals.",[6028],{"title":6029,"text":6030},"A Call to Action","Brothers and sisters! They will tell you that it’s no use fighting against the vrakhiri. That they are our lords and saviours, sent here to rule us by God Almighty himself. It’s all lies! The vrakhiri are here to bleed us dry and grow fat on our blood. They…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6032},"Rebel Missive inventory icon",[6],[],[6036],{"kind":31,"name":662,"path":663},{"slug":6038,"name":6039,"path":6040,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6041,"excerpts":6042,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":862,"sellValue":273,"icon":6045,"categories":6047,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6048,"relations":6049},"recruits-letter","Recruit's Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#recruits-letter","A determined request. The writer wants to join the resistance after noticing increasing blood collections and disappearances. It explains a recruit’s motive through the connection between religious gatherings and the blood transports. Pair it with the actual shipment order for the named destination of Xanthe’s levy.",[6043],{"title":6039,"text":6044},"The vrakhiri sicken me. This isn’t how this ends, I can feel it in my bones. Each mass, they take more. Each week, someone new disappears. There are transports filled with our blood, moving through the valley. If you don’t pay attention, it seems like Vale…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6046},"Recruit's Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[6050,6051],{"kind":31,"name":1176,"path":1177},{"kind":31,"name":6052,"path":5586},"Manumit search orders",{"slug":6054,"name":4044,"path":4045,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6055,"excerpts":6056,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":167,"icon":6061,"categories":6063,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6064,"relations":6065},"recruitment-instructions","Military document. The recruiters are told to target isolated people and offer Xanthe’s blood before asking for service. A longer version also excludes Vicho’s Curio Emporium in Altenmarkt from their operations by the knyaz’s order. That exception connects the recruitment campaign with Vicho’s protected position in Svartrau.",[6057,6059],{"title":4044,"text":6058},"In your recruitment effort for the Blood Guard, focus on drifters: people without families, commitment, or purpose. They tend to be most responsive to our promises of strength and prestige. Offer them the first sample of the boyaress's blood without…",{"title":4044,"text":6060},"In your recruitment effort for the Blood Guard, focus on drifters: people without families, commitment or purpose. They tend to be most responsive to our promises of strength and prestige. Offer them the first sample of the boyaress's blood without demanding…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6062},"Recruitment Instructions inventory icon",[6],[],[6066,6069],{"kind":31,"name":6067,"path":6068},"Taste of Power","\u002Fquests#xanthes-recruiters-taste-of-power",{"kind":31,"name":1754,"path":1755},{"slug":6071,"name":6072,"path":6073,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6074,"excerpts":6075,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":6079,"categories":6081,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6082,"relations":6083},"recruitment-letter","Recruitment Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#recruitment-letter","Informs Rovin of Maragir that he was accepted into the army. Rovin of Maragir has been accepted into Brencis’s army and ordered to report to Sergeant Ante at Svartrau’s East Gate within a week. The letter identifies the conscript’s planned destination in the Star-Crossed Lovers investigation.",[6076],{"title":6077,"text":6078},"Recruitment letter","Rovin of Maragir, Your request to join the Knyaz’s army has been approved. You have one week to wrap up any personal business and go to Svartrau for basic training. Report to sergeant Ante by the East Gate. Serve with honour! Serve Knyaz Brencis – may His…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6080},"Recruitment Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[6084,6087,6090],{"kind":31,"name":6085,"path":6086},"Star-Crossed Lovers","\u002Fquests#star-crossed-lovers",{"kind":31,"name":6088,"path":6089},"Brencis’s Seal","\u002Fabilities\u002Fcompel-soul#brenciss-seal",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":6092,"name":6093,"path":6094,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":6095,"excerpts":6096,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":438,"sellValue":107,"icon":6099,"categories":6101,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6102,"relations":6103},"regarding-the-laboratory","Regarding the Laboratory","\u002Fitems\u002Fregarding-the-laboratory","Silas's notes about the precautions needed to protect his work. The laboratory has several surface connections, and its owner has blocked the basement entrance with a bookshelf while hiding the notes. Those are the useful spatial clues in this document; the neighbouring woman’s suspicions explain the planned escape.",[6097],{"title":6093,"text":6098},"Note to self: take precautions should it become necessary to relocate the laboratory. So far, this place has proven to be quite convenient. It’s well concealed and connects to the surface in more than one way. The sole drawback is the constant need for lamps…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6100},"Regarding the Laboratory inventory icon",[6],[],[6104],{"kind":31,"name":6105,"path":400},"Silas’s research and book",{"slug":6107,"name":6108,"path":343,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6109,"excerpts":6110,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":1360,"sellValue":201,"icon":6114,"categories":6116,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6117,"relations":6118},"report-about-excavations","Report about Excavations","Seems like Xanthe is up to something. Riquin confirms that the southern Silts dig is working for Xanthe, but a Blood Guard prevents him from learning more. The report establishes secrecy even between soldiers serving the same knyaz. Follow Unsealed Secrets for the investigation and the collection of research notes at the excavation.",[6111],{"title":6112,"text":6113},"A Report about the Excavations","Sir, As you requested, I travelled south, to the Silts, and found the excavation site you mentioned. You were right – everyone there is working on Lady Xanthe’s orders. I tried to chum up with one of the officers, a fellow I remembered from our service…",{"src":2293,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6115},"Report about Excavations inventory icon",[6],[],[6119,6122,6124],{"kind":31,"name":6120,"path":6121},"Unsealed Secrets","\u002Fquests#xanthes-excavations-unsealed-secrets",{"kind":31,"name":6123,"path":340},"Xanthe’s Orders",{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":6126,"name":6127,"path":5525,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6128,"excerpts":6129,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":167,"icon":6133,"categories":6135,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6136,"relations":6137},"report-of-suspicious-activity","Report of Suspicious Activity","Military document. Dythmar’s farmstead in Rockfalls is the named location. Neighbours report late-night visitors, including wounded people, leading the soldiers to suspect manumit activity. This supplies the farmstead lead behind Bakir’s Smoke Them Out operation.",[6130],{"title":6131,"text":6132},"Reports of Suspicious Activity","Suspicious activity reported in the farmstead of one Dythmar of Rockfalls. Neighbours noticed people arriving in the middle of the night, some wounded. Likely connected to manumit activity. Investigate and punish all found in said farmstead with utmost…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6134},"Report of Suspicious Activity inventory icon",[6],[],[6138,6139,6141],{"kind":31,"name":5527,"path":5528},{"kind":31,"name":6140,"path":5512},"Bakir’s wider orders",{"kind":31,"name":6142,"path":6143},"Rockfalls","\u002Flocations\u002Frockfalls",{"slug":6145,"name":6146,"path":6147,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6148,"excerpts":6149,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":200,"sellValue":824,"icon":6152,"categories":6155,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6156,"relations":6157},"report-on-bandit-activity","Report on Bandit Activity","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#report-on-bandit-activity","Pinpoints the locations of some bandit camps in the area. Severin identifies Rockfalls, the Silts and Tantari Woods as the main regions where his scouts found bandit camps. Start with those three regions when following the report’s leads.",[6150],{"title":6146,"text":6151},"Captain, It would appear that the threat of ending up in a draining dungeon isn't enough to dissuade people from banditry. They always try to pick the easy path, the greedy fools. I sent out a few of my scouts into the valley to see what the new bandit…",{"src":6153,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6154},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBG7.webp","Report on Bandit Activity inventory icon",[6],[],[6158,6159,6160],{"kind":31,"name":6142,"path":6143},{"kind":31,"name":5599,"path":5600},{"kind":31,"name":4623,"path":4624},{"slug":6162,"name":6163,"path":6164,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":6165,"excerpts":6166,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":331,"sellValue":66,"icon":6169,"categories":6171,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6172,"relations":6173},"report-on-desertions","Report on Desertions","\u002Fitems\u002Freport-on-desertions","Military document.",[6167],{"title":6163,"text":6168},"As instructed, I collated information regarding desertions from our ranks. Overall, sixteen individuals left their posts without the express permission of their superiors. Of these, ten were never found. Of the remaining six, three were found in taverns,…",{"src":4889,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6170},"Report on Desertions inventory icon",[6],[],[6174],{"kind":6175,"name":6176,"path":6177},"quest","Ambrus's Transports: Roadside Surprise","\u002Fquests\u002Fambruss-transports-roadside-surprise",{"slug":6179,"name":6180,"path":6181,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6182,"excerpts":6183,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":823,"sellValue":66,"icon":6186,"categories":6188,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6189,"relations":6190},"report-on-missing-women","Report on Missing Women","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#report-on-missing-women","Communication between Brencis's soldiers. Andras reports disappearances across Xanthe’s domain and requests permission to investigate. His accusation against the manumits is the captain’s suspicion; the letter itself establishes the disappearances and ignored requests.",[6184],{"title":6180,"text":6185},"Sir, You didn’t really answer my last report, so let me get straight to it: more women have disappeared from places all around Lady Xanthe’s domain. I urge you to allow me to gather a few boys and investigate this properly. Mark my words, we will surely find…",{"src":3621,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6187},"Report on Missing Women inventory icon",[6],[],[6191,6192],{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":6194,"name":6195,"path":6196,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":6165,"excerpts":6197,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":144,"sellValue":252,"icon":6200,"categories":6203,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6204,"relations":6205},"report-on-new-recruits","Report on New Recruits","\u002Fitems\u002Freport-on-new-recruits",[6198],{"title":6195,"text":6199},"Hope this letter finds you well – or at least still alive. We were approached by eleven potential recruits. Of these, three were found lacking, four were given simple tasks to demonstrate their commitment to the cause, and a further three were killed due to…",{"src":6201,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6202},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBN4.webp","Report on New Recruits inventory icon",[6],[],[6206],{"kind":6175,"name":6176,"path":6177},{"slug":6208,"name":6209,"path":6210,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6211,"excerpts":6212,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":438,"sellValue":107,"icon":6215,"categories":6217,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6218,"relations":6219},"report-on-the-blood-guard","Report on the Blood Guard","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#report-on-the-blood-guard","A note on the state and morale of the Blood Guard after Boyaress Xanthe's death. The Blood Guard’s deteriorating discipline is linked to Xanthe’s death and the loss of their sustenance. The writer proposes that Brencis provide another vrakhir to drain, explaining the connection between their hunger and Xanthe’s role.",[6213],{"title":6209,"text":6214},"Discipline in the Blood Guard continues to deteriorate. Several members have grown increasingly volatile and have begun showing open aggression toward other garrisoned soldiers. Since the death of Boyaress Xanthe, we have been unable to address their…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6216},"Report on the Blood Guard inventory icon",[6],[],[6220],{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":6222,"name":6223,"path":5905,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6224,"excerpts":6225,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":1343,"sellValue":22,"icon":6228,"categories":6231,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6232,"relations":6233},"report-on-unknown-vrakhir","Report on Unknown Vrakhir","Communication between Brencis's soldiers. The missing patrolman is Nish, an uriash last seen near Svartrau’s northeastern wall. Stefen’s request to search for him supports the city location mentioned in the suspicious-vrakhir note and Bakir’s dictated order.",[6226],{"title":6223,"text":6227},"Captain, Once again, I’m writing to you regarding the alarming reports about an unknown vrakhir prowling the streets of Svartrau. I know that at first it was they were to be treated as gossip, as it is unfathomable that our Knyaz wouldn’t notice another of…",{"src":6229,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6230},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBG14.webp","Report on Unknown Vrakhir inventory icon",[6],[],[6234,6237,6238],{"kind":31,"name":6235,"path":6236},"The earlier city report","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#suspicious-vrakhir-in-svartrau",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":6239,"path":6240},"Vrakhir","\u002Fcreatures\u002Fvrakhir",{"slug":6242,"name":6243,"path":6244,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":6165,"excerpts":6245,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":862,"sellValue":273,"icon":6249,"categories":6251,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6252,"relations":6253},"report-klaus-the-brave","Report: Klaus the Brave","\u002Fitems\u002Freport-klaus-the-brave",[6246],{"title":6247,"text":6248},"Report: Curious Individual","Sergeant, I am writing to report an unusual situation. Yesterday, during my routine patrol, I saw a man crouching by the side of the path. At first, I thought he must be simply relieving himself, but then I gave him a closer look and noticed two things:…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6250},"Report: Klaus the Brave inventory icon",[6],[],[6254],{"kind":6175,"name":6176,"path":6177},{"slug":6256,"name":3742,"path":3743,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6257,"excerpts":6258,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":6262,"categories":6264,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6265,"relations":6266},"reprimand-from-ambrus","Blunt like the author. Ambrus has received less than half the expected blood and orders an audit of the collectors’ records. He threatens to make up any shortfall from their own veins. Read the Ledger and Bakir’s Letter for the parallel trail of blood recorded as lost and sold to another boyar.",[6259],{"title":6260,"text":6261},"Reprimand","Listen to me, you repugnant knaves – the quotas I assigned you were not a gentle suggestion, not a nice-to-have, but a task you were to fulfil. The last shipment contained less than half of what I was expecting and required. This is unacceptable. Expect your…",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6263},"Reprimand from Ambrus inventory icon",[6],[],[6267,6268,6269],{"kind":31,"name":3338,"path":3339},{"kind":31,"name":3627,"path":3628},{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":6271,"name":6272,"path":6273,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":6274,"excerpts":6275,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":6278,"categories":6280,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6281,"relations":6282},"reproachful-letter-from-ambrus","Reproachful Letter from Ambrus","\u002Fitems\u002Freproachful-letter-from-ambrus","Written in response to the recent attacks on the knyaz's dungeons.",[6276],{"title":6272,"text":6277},"My esteemed brother-in-arms, Change of plan – I have been challenged and I shall not let it go unanswered. Send a few prisoners my way, to Maragir, and I'll leave something for our dearest Coen to discover. Boyar Ambrus",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6279},"Reproachful Letter from Ambrus inventory icon",[6],[],[6283],{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":6285,"name":590,"path":591,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6286,"excerpts":6287,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":273,"icon":6290,"categories":6292,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6293,"relations":6294},"reproachful-letter-from-bakir","Full of hyperbole and threats. Bakir complains that well-paid, well-equipped soldiers continue to suffer defeats and specifically demands Coen’s severed head. His Threatening Letter goes further, promising to drain the soldiers himself if they cannot stop Coen’s interference.",[6288],{"title":590,"text":6289},"My dearest serfs, What is it I hear? More disruptions? More defeat? Why? I feed you well, I pay you handsomely, I spare no expenses on your armaments. And this is how you repay me? I’ll be honest with you – it smacks of ingratitude. Next time one of you…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6291},"Reproachful Letter from Bakir inventory icon",[6],[],[6295,6296,6299],{"kind":31,"name":578,"path":579},{"kind":31,"name":6297,"path":6298},"Threatening Letter from Bakir","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#threatening-letter-from-bakir",{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":6301,"name":445,"path":446,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6302,"excerpts":6303,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":273,"icon":6307,"categories":6309,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6310,"relations":6311},"requisition-letter","Signed by a certain Armaya, in boyaress Xanthe's employ. Armaya requests strong, reliable men to escort treasures recovered from the distant past and makes the commander responsible for losses or damage. Her Demand Letter concerns the digging crew and equipment; this requisition covers moving the discoveries out of the excavation.",[6304],{"title":6305,"text":6306},"Request from Armaya","Commander, I need several strong, dependable men to report to my camp. They will be entrusted with most precious cargo: wondrous treasures from the deepest past. Should any of these items go missing or be damaged in transit I will hold you directly…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6308},"Requisition Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[6312,6313,6314],{"kind":31,"name":2073,"path":2074},{"kind":31,"name":2087,"path":2088},{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":6316,"name":6317,"path":6318,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6319,"excerpts":6320,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":107,"icon":6324,"categories":6326,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6327,"relations":6328},"research-notes","Research Notes","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#research-notes","Testament to Boyar Bakir's dedication to his craft. The account concerns Bakir’s treatment of a captive and his rejection of an experiment as too slow. It develops the same prison context as the later Prison Report, which describes what changes after Bakir’s death.",[6321],{"title":6322,"text":6323},"Boyar Bakir’s Research","This time, Boyar Bakir ordered us to try the method of scaphism, as mentioned in Plutarch’s ‘Life of Artaxerxes’. The procedure went as follows: Out upon the lake, we prepared two boats, fashioned to fit one atop the other, with suitable openings cut to…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6325},"Research Notes inventory icon",[6],[],[6329,6331],{"kind":31,"name":6330,"path":5958},"The prison after Bakir",{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":6333,"name":6334,"path":1496,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6335,"excerpts":6336,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":107,"icon":6339,"categories":6341,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6342,"relations":6343},"rewards-for-your-duty","Rewards for Your Duty","Orders to Brencis's soldiers. Patrol leaders are promised extra leave passes and better equipment when their men perform well, and personal accountability when they fail. Bring Results identifies the work being demanded: capturing manumits and confiscating silver.",[6337],{"title":6334,"text":6338},"To all patrol leaders! Those of you whose men do their duties well, may expect to get rewarded with additional leave passes and better equipment. Similarly, should your men fail their duties, you will be held accountable.",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6340},"Rewards for Your Duty inventory icon",[6],[],[6344,6346],{"kind":31,"name":6345,"path":1484},"The patrol targets behind the rewards",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":6348,"name":6349,"path":6350,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":6351,"excerpts":6352,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":6355,"categories":6357,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6358,"relations":6359},"ritual-instructions","Ritual Instructions","\u002Fitems\u002Fritual-instructions","Vera's scroll detailing the ritual of blood poisoning. The written sequence has two drinking stages with the pillar ritual between them. It names Breach the Veil for activating the pillars and puts salamander skins immediately before the ritual, so it should be read after the earlier bait and gland notes.",[6353],{"title":6349,"text":6354},"The final steps Once the brew is ready, it can sit safely for days before use. Animals won’t take an interest in it, and the concoction will be preserved – with one caveat: the salamander skins must be added right before the ritual is started. For the…",{"src":2589,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6356},"Ritual Instructions inventory icon",[6],[],[6360,6362],{"kind":31,"name":6361,"path":2596},"The earlier lizard preparation",{"kind":31,"name":1965,"path":1966},{"slug":6364,"name":6365,"path":6366,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6367,"excerpts":6368,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":107,"icon":6371,"categories":6373,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6374,"relations":6375},"safehouse-notice","Safehouse Notice","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#safehouse-notice","An offer of kindness. The writer has stocked the shelter with basic supplies for fugitives and asks visitors to leave the notice for the next arrival. Compare the two manumit cache notes for supplies explicitly reserved for the resistance.",[6369],{"title":6365,"text":6370},"This place is sheltered from vrakhiri eyes and from the men who serve them. We’ve stashed it with some basic supplies – take a look around. I hope there is still enough left to let you rest your head and forget about your worries for the night. Please, leave…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6372},"Safehouse Notice inventory icon",[6],[],[6376,6377],{"kind":31,"name":4456,"path":4457},{"kind":31,"name":4443,"path":4444},{"slug":6379,"name":6380,"path":6381,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6382,"excerpts":6383,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":1432,"sellValue":66,"icon":6387,"categories":6389,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6390,"relations":6391},"saint-mihai-the-gods-warrior","Saint Mihai: The God’s Warrior","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#saint-mihai-the-gods-warrior","Hagiography of the valley's most popular saint. This biography pairs Mihai with Tobias and describes the fatal fight near Maragir, Tobias’s lost arm and the return of Mihai’s body to Svartrau. Sancti Mihai Historia Vera gives the concealed version relevant to finding the magic sword.",[6384],{"title":6385,"text":6386},"Saint Mihai: The God's Warrior","As we all know, many of those who we nowadays consider saints started as pagans and came to the Lord’s light only later in life. Such was the case of Saint Mihai. A warrior hailing from some distant lands, Mihai arrived at Vale Sangora with one mission on…",{"src":5978,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6388},"Saint Mihai: The God’s Warrior inventory icon",[6],[],[6392,6395,6396],{"kind":31,"name":6393,"path":6394},"The concealed Mihai account","\u002Fitems\u002Fsancti-mihai-historia-vera",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":1210,"path":1211},{"slug":6398,"name":6399,"path":6400,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":6401,"excerpts":6402,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":313,"sellValue":201,"icon":6405,"categories":6407,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6408,"relations":6409},"saint-tobias-the-one-armed-monk","Saint Tobias: The One-Armed Monk","\u002Fitems\u002Fsaint-tobias-the-one-armed-monk","Life of the founder of Svartrau Cathedral. The biography recounts how Tobias lost his arm fighting a ghast in the swamps near Maragir alongside Mihai. Mihai killed the creature but died in the fight; Tobias carried his body back to Svartrau, where Mihai became the cathedral’s patron. Tobias lived on as a religious leader and became the valley’s principal patron saint. Read Mihai’s biography alongside this book for the other saint’s part in the same history.",[6403],{"title":6399,"text":6404},"Among the patrons of Vale Sangora, none is more renowned and respected than Saint Tobias, the one-armed monk. A pious and humble man in life, Tobias did not seek power or influence; yet both of those attributes were given to him by Divine Ordination. Before…",{"src":1413,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6406},"Saint Tobias: The One-Armed Monk inventory icon",[6],[],[6410,6412],{"kind":31,"name":6411,"path":6381},"Saint Mihai’s biography",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":6414,"name":6415,"path":6416,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6417,"excerpts":6418,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":144,"sellValue":201,"icon":6421,"categories":6423,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6424,"relations":6425},"saint-tyna-protector-of-the-meek","Saint Tyna: Protector of the Meek","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#saint-tyna-protector-of-the-meek","Life of the founder of the valley's convent. The biography connects Tyna’s healing gift with the founding purpose of her convent. Compare the Prioress’s Journal for the later shortages, illness and opening of her coffin; these are accounts of different periods.",[6419],{"title":6415,"text":6420},"When St. Tyna’s name is mentioned nowadays, we all see one of the patron saints of Vale Sangora; we think of acts of charity and of the miracles she performed; we think of the convent built in her name, and the pious nuns toiling inside its walls night and…",{"src":1452,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6422},"Saint Tyna: Protector of the Meek inventory icon",[6],[],[6426,6428],{"kind":31,"name":6427,"path":1292},"The convent’s later crisis",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":6430,"name":6431,"path":6432,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6433,"excerpts":6434,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":1432,"sellValue":252,"icon":6437,"categories":6440,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6441,"relations":6442},"saints-of-vale-sangora","Saints of Vale Sangora","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#saints-of-vale-sangora","Official biographies of the valley's saints. This short guide distinguishes Mihai’s protection, Tobias’s faith and Tyna’s healing in the valley’s religious tradition. Use the saint biographies for their stories and the relic guide for the associated player objectives.",[6435],{"title":6431,"text":6436},"Vale Sangora, though small and remote, has already given the world three saints. First was Mihai, noble warrior and smiter of evil, who fought a vicious dragon that terrorised our land many, many centuries ago. Pray to him for protection. Second was Tobias,…",{"src":6438,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6439},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBR13.webp","Saints of Vale Sangora inventory icon",[6],[],[6443,6446],{"kind":31,"name":6444,"path":6445},"Saint relics and objectives","\u002Fguides\u002Fsaint-relics",{"kind":31,"name":1210,"path":1211},{"slug":6448,"name":6449,"path":6394,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":6450,"excerpts":6451,"rarity":183,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":6454,"categories":6457,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6458,"relations":6459},"sancti-mihai-historia-vera","Sancti Mihai Historia Vera","The pages are blank. The concealed account gives three important corrections to Mihai’s legend: his enemies were vrakhiri, his weapon was a magic sword, and his body was buried in Svartrau. The burial clue leads into the cathedral investigation; the sword’s recovery and reforging are covered together in the restoration guide.",[6452],{"title":6449,"text":6453},"I am concealing these words, as they may put both your life and your soul in mortal danger. The story of Saint Mihai has been greatly distorted – by lies, omissions and misunderstandings. First, he fought not dragons, \"dracones\", but vrakhiri, \"vracones\".…",{"src":6455,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6456},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_Q102_StTobiasBook.webp","Sancti Mihai Historia Vera inventory icon",[6],[],[6460,6462,6463],{"kind":31,"name":6461,"path":4995},"Find and restore St. Mihai’s sword",{"kind":31,"name":1210,"path":1211},{"kind":31,"name":1965,"path":1966},{"slug":6465,"name":6466,"path":6467,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6468,"excerpts":6469,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1075,"sellValue":48,"icon":6473,"categories":6475,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6476,"relations":6477},"sanctum-praeputium-or-the-holy-foreskin","Sanctum Praeputium, or the Holy Foreskin","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#sanctum-praeputium-or-the-holy-foreskin","Makes for a riveting read. The author compares rival claims to the same relic, including one preserved in Rome and another said to have bled at Charroux, before listing still more claimants. Arman’s Letter to Skender offers another example of relic authenticity supported by visions and reported miracles.",[6470],{"title":6471,"text":6472},"Sanctum Praeputium or the Holy Foreskin","Of all the unusual relics a Christian may venerate, the Holy Prepuce, or Foreskin, is surely the most mysterious. It is known that a few days after he was born, Jesus was circumcised. Right after it happened, an old woman decided to take our Lord and…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6474},"Sanctum Praeputium, or the Holy Foreskin inventory icon",[6],[],[6478,6480],{"kind":31,"name":6479,"path":837},"Relics and authenticity in Arman’s gift",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":6482,"name":6483,"path":6484,"detail":13,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":13,"answered":13,"description":6485,"excerpts":6486,"rarity":183,"material":18,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":6487,"categories":6489,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6490,"relations":6491},"scholars-map","Scholar's Map","\u002Fitems#scholars-map","This map's previous owner marked an ancient ruin on it.",[],{"src":408,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6488},"Scholar's Map inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":6493,"name":6494,"path":6495,"detail":13,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":13,"answered":13,"description":6496,"excerpts":6497,"rarity":18,"material":18,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":273,"icon":6498,"categories":6500,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6501,"relations":6502},"scribble-covered-map","Scribble-Covered Map","\u002Fitems#scribble-covered-map","A map of Vale Sangora, with someone's scribbles all over it.",[],{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6499},"Scribble-Covered Map inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":6504,"name":6505,"path":6506,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6507,"excerpts":6508,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":1470,"sellValue":273,"icon":6512,"categories":6514,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6515,"relations":6516},"scribbled-poem","Scribbled Poem","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#scribbled-poem","Desperate poet's scribbles. The repeated movement from “the blood” to “our blood” and finally “my blood” makes the defeat increasingly personal. Pews and a false god’s shrine place the speaker’s loss within corrupted worship. Habeas Sanguinem supplies the official language of the blood covenant.",[6509],{"title":6510,"text":6511},"Scribbled poem","The blood, the blood Is flowing down the pews We knew, we knew That our fight we would lose Our blood, our blood Is filling their mouths foul They come, they come Predators on the prowl My blood, my blood It feels no longer mine It dries, it dries On our new…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6513},"Scribbled Poem inventory icon",[6],[],[6517],{"kind":31,"name":6518,"path":2858},"The official blood covenant",{"slug":6520,"name":3256,"path":3257,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6521,"excerpts":6522,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":1024,"sellValue":48,"icon":6525,"categories":6527,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6528,"relations":6529},"search-for-manumit-caches","A call to action to the guards in Svartrau. Look for the former ruling family's sigil when following the manumit cache clues in Svartrau. Captain Nadalrad tells patrols to watch these marked hiding places; Initial Instructions explains where Coen is asked to bring the messages collected from stashes.",[6523],{"title":3256,"text":6524},"To all guards on duty, We have reliable information that the manumits have secret caches of weapons and other gear hidden throughout the city. During your patrols, be vigilant and look for places marked by a sigil very similar to the one used by Skender and…",{"src":2312,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6526},"Search for Manumit Caches inventory icon",[6],[],[6530,6531],{"kind":31,"name":2496,"path":2497},{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":6533,"name":3726,"path":3727,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6534,"excerpts":6535,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":273,"icon":6538,"categories":6540,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6541,"relations":6542},"second-letter-from-rozalia","A heartbroken lover's note. Rozalia now knows that Ambrus defied Skender and was imprisoned. Read her first letter before this one, then Ambrus's personal reply, to follow the correspondence from missing news to punishment and transformation.",[6536],{"title":3726,"text":6537},"Ambrus, I scarcely know why I put quill to paper, for I have finally learned what befell you. And I am furious! Furious and heartsick, you reckless fool! What possessed you to defy Knyaz Skender himself? Always too bold, always too brave for your own good...…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6539},"Second Letter from Rozalia inventory icon",[6],[],[6543,6544,6545,6546],{"kind":31,"name":3723,"path":3724},{"kind":31,"name":3708,"path":3709},{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":6548,"name":6549,"path":6550,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":6551,"excerpts":6552,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":107,"icon":6555,"categories":6557,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6558,"relations":6559},"secret-instructions","Secret Instructions","\u002Fitems\u002Fsecret-instructions","Confidential orders for boyaress Xanthe’s soldiers.",[6553],{"title":6549,"text":6554},"To all patrol commanders, While out on duty, keep your eyes peeled for women, aged fifteen to twenty, medium build, medium height, no visible blemishes, travelling alone. Anyone meeting this description should be apprehended immediately and sent, under armed…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6556},"Secret Instructions inventory icon",[6],[],[6560],{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":6562,"name":6563,"path":6564,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6565,"excerpts":6566,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":6570,"categories":6572,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6573,"relations":6574},"secretive-letter","Secretive Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#secretive-letter","Unsigned and very cryptic. The sender offers Coen an armour schematic, a component list and a map to a smith. Follow the Arbiter equipment guide for the materials, forging and ritual stages that turn that offer into usable armour.",[6567],{"title":6568,"text":6569},"A Mysterious Letter","Coen of Laslea, Your fight against Brencis might seem a lonely one, but it is not so. His transgressions echoed around the world, and they shan't be ignored. His punishment has already been determined and will be meted out in due time. But we are aware that…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6571},"Secretive Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[6575,6578],{"kind":31,"name":6576,"path":6577},"Armour of the Arbiter","\u002Farmor\u002Farmour-of-the-arbiter",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":6580,"name":6581,"path":6582,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6583,"excerpts":6584,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":273,"icon":6587,"categories":6589,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6590,"relations":6591},"sergeants-note","Sergeant's Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#sergeants-note","A doubtful soldier's standpoint concerning soldiers going missing. Zoran asks his commander to stop sending patrols into the underground caves after repeated losses. It complements the excavation orders by showing the human cost of holding those passages.",[6585],{"title":6581,"text":6586},"Commander, With all due respect, I still insist we stop sending patrols to the underground caves. The men seldom return, and when they do, they bring us what seems to be gnawed remains of those who went before them. No man goes down there by choice. Nor…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6588},"Sergeant's Note inventory icon",[6],[],[6592],{"kind":31,"name":6593,"path":1391},"Brencis’s excavation orders",{"slug":6595,"name":527,"path":528,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6596,"excerpts":6597,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":273,"icon":6601,"categories":6603,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6604,"relations":6605},"servants-letter","Some people were loyal to Maragir nobles. Cetin directs his displaced lord to an old cottage in the hills west of Maragir and plans to deliver provisions by day. An Unsent Letter gives another noble's account of fleeing Ambrus and seeking shelter outside the village.",[6598],{"title":6599,"text":6600},"A Servant’s Letter","My lord, You’ll find my old cottage in the hills west of Maragir. To be honest – it’s in a terrible state and offers no comforts, but should do as a shelter for the time being. I’ll come to you with provisions during the day, when that monster Ambrus is…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6602},"Servant's Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[6606,6607],{"kind":31,"name":515,"path":516},{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":6609,"name":6610,"path":6611,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6612,"excerpts":6613,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":5438,"sellValue":66,"icon":6616,"categories":6619,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6620,"relations":6621},"she-who-rambles","She Who Rambles","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#she-who-rambles","Copied by a trembling hand. A missing girl returns years later, warping vegetation and speaking of something beyond the world seeking an ancient vessel. Villagers burn her, but a dark fang survives in the ashes. Teeth, or The Essence of Being develops the related idea of teeth preserving a being’s essence.",[6614],{"title":6610,"text":6615},"There was once a girl. One moment, she was chasing butterflies through the fields; the next, only her small footprints remained, fading into nothing. People searched every hollow and house, even the well in the middle of their village, but she was gone.…",{"src":6617,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6618},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBR10.webp","She Who Rambles inventory icon",[6],[],[6622,6625],{"kind":31,"name":6623,"path":6624},"Why teeth matter in the lore","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#teeth-or-the-essence-of-being",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":6627,"name":6628,"path":6629,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6630,"excerpts":6631,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":107,"icon":6634,"categories":6636,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6637,"relations":6638},"shepherds-diary","Shepherd's Diary","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#shepherds-diary","Seems like things were getting worse and worse. The shepherd loses sheep to sickness and then burns Iancu's body and belongings before burying more animals. Shepherd's Journal describes a separate flock's disappearance, involving small nocturnal intruders instead of this outbreak.",[6632],{"title":6628,"text":6633},"The sheep bleat uneasily at night as the flock grows thinner with each passing week. Yesterday, I found more lying dead on the slopes, their bellies swollen, much like the bodies in the plague pits. Old Iancu has been taking care of the carcasses till now,…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6635},"Shepherd's Diary inventory icon",[6],[],[6639],{"kind":31,"name":4242,"path":4243},{"slug":6641,"name":4242,"path":4243,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6642,"excerpts":6643,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":273,"icon":6647,"categories":6649,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6650,"relations":6651},"shepherds-journal","A study in stubbornness. Nemoy first celebrates leaving Svartrau for a mountain cottage, then watches small, bright-eyed creatures steal his sheep. He decides to defend the flock with fire and an axe; Shepherd's Diary describes a different cause of losses.",[6644],{"title":6645,"text":6646},"A Shepherd’s Journal","And they said, ‘Nemoy, that’s a bad idea.’ Ha! They can stuff it – moving out from Svartrau and into the mountains was the best decision I’ve ever made. True, I had to sell my house, and this cottage I bought instead is much, much smaller and offers fewer…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6648},"Shepherd's Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[6652],{"kind":31,"name":6628,"path":6629},{"slug":6654,"name":628,"path":629,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6655,"excerpts":6656,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":167,"icon":6659,"categories":6661,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6662,"relations":6663},"shipping-ledger","Details Bakir's operations. Bakir adjusts liquor deliveries for political ends: Sever receives two extra barrels for a Lunar Tournament victory, Rockfalls receives double for a visit, and Parlita loses half until rebels are surrendered. Laslea is removed after its destruction, while Maragir’s woodcutters lose their allocation for drinking at work.",[6657],{"title":628,"text":6658},"The following changes are to be made to the next liquor shipment, as instructed by Boyar Bakir: Boar’s Back – Add two extra barrels. Deliver directly into the hands of one Sever, in tribute to his triumph at the previous Lunar Tournament. Rockfalls, Uriash…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6660},"Shipping Ledger inventory icon",[6],[],[6664,6665,6666,6667,6668,6669],{"kind":31,"name":3376,"path":3377},{"kind":31,"name":614,"path":615},{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"kind":31,"name":1791,"path":1792},{"kind":31,"name":6142,"path":6143},{"kind":31,"name":3974,"path":3975},{"slug":6671,"name":5110,"path":5111,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6672,"excerpts":6673,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":167,"icon":6677,"categories":6679,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6680,"relations":6681},"short-letter","Pithy but informative. Marku announces a shipment rich in noble blood and singles out Voiescu’s humiliation during capture. His wish that Ambrus drain the nobles connects this transport to the boyar’s preference for prisoners of aristocratic birth, stated in the Threatening Letter.",[6674],{"title":6675,"text":6676},"Letter about Shipment","Shipment ready – rich in blue blood. Pity you weren't there to see old Voiescu beg for mercy, it was quite the sight – didn't seem so noble pissing his breeches. Hope Boyar Ambrus drains them all to the last. Leeches for leeches – poetic, eh? Marku",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6678},"Short Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[6682,6683,6684],{"kind":31,"name":644,"path":645},{"kind":31,"name":5097,"path":5098},{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":6686,"name":6687,"path":6688,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6689,"excerpts":6690,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":862,"sellValue":273,"icon":6694,"categories":6696,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6697,"relations":6698},"short-note","Short Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#short-note","A friendly tip from one opportunist to another. Woymir sends Berg toward St. Tyna's Convent in search of the wealthy refugees' belongings. For the actual convent route, use the bell signals and monastery-key instructions together.",[6691],{"title":6692,"text":6693},"A Friendly Tip","Berg, If what I heard is true, St. Tyna’s is full of riches. Rumours say that when the plague hit, the nuns welcomed many quite wealthy people inside the convent before they closed the door. It’s not hard to guess that all of them are long dead now, but if…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6695},"Short Note inventory icon",[6],[],[6699,6700],{"kind":31,"name":1563,"path":1564},{"kind":31,"name":3924,"path":3925},{"slug":6702,"name":6703,"path":400,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":6704,"excerpts":6705,"rarity":183,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":6706,"categories":6708,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6709,"relations":6710},"silass-book","Silas's Book","An old tome filled with a plethora of bizarre symbols and scribbles. There is power hidden in these pages.",[],{"src":5039,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6707},"Silas's Book inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":6712,"name":1861,"path":1862,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6713,"excerpts":6714,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":6717,"categories":6719,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6720,"relations":6721},"silver-cache-letter","Sheds more light on the whole affair. Sergeant Erik identifies the hidden silver as Catalin Dragosti’s property. His escort left Svartrau twenty strong, but monsters killed half and left the survivors wounded and afraid. He asks the finder to return the riches to Catalin or use them against the creatures that seized his throne.",[6715],{"title":1861,"text":6716},"To whoever finds this cache, The treasures hidden herein belong to Catalin Dragosti, beloved heir of Skender Dragosti, rightful ruler of Vale Sangora. We were tasked with transporting this silver out of the valley, but we are not able to fulfil this task.…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6718},"Silver Cache Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[6722,6723,6724,6725],{"kind":31,"name":5176,"path":5177},{"kind":31,"name":1845,"path":1846},{"kind":31,"name":2513,"path":2514},{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":6727,"name":6728,"path":6729,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6730,"excerpts":6731,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":842,"sellValue":252,"icon":6734,"categories":6737,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6738,"relations":6739},"skenders-sins","Skender's Sins","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#skenders-sins","Written and circulated on Knyaz Brencis's orders. The loyalist tract uses Skender’s massacre at Shrike’s Crag to justify Brencis’s takeover, then claims Skender rejected a chance to leave without his wealth. The Peasant Uprising in Vale Sangora covers the revolt itself, separating that event from the later argument for Brencis’s rule.",[6732],{"title":6728,"text":6733},"Of all the tyrants and fools who ruled Vale Sangora in the past, Skender Dragosti was surely the worst. He cared nothing for us, his subjects, only for ways in which he could exploit us, as if we were mere tools. And when we dared oppose him, what did he do?…",{"src":6735,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6736},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBB3.webp","Skender's Sins inventory icon",[6],[],[6740,6742,6743],{"kind":31,"name":6741,"path":94},"The uprising and Shrike’s Crag",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":6745,"name":3439,"path":3440,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6746,"excerpts":6747,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":167,"icon":6751,"categories":6753,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6754,"relations":6755},"smeared-note","Likely exchanged between manumits. The writer warns Novak that Bakir’s rebel hunters are pursuing him and directs him to Mert the miller for shelter. Mert’s Intriguing Letter supplies another part of this support network: communication with Vlad and a warning intended for Crake.",[6748],{"title":6749,"text":6750},"Bloodied Letter","Novak, Bakir's rebel hunters are onto you. You need to disappear, and quick. Go to Mert the miller. He supports our cause and will hide you until things blow over. May God protect you, K.",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6752},"Smeared Note inventory icon",[6],[],[6756,6757,6758,6759],{"kind":31,"name":3426,"path":3427},{"kind":31,"name":1298,"path":1299},{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"kind":31,"name":1773,"path":1774},{"slug":6761,"name":6762,"path":6763,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6764,"excerpts":6765,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":273,"icon":6768,"categories":6770,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6771,"relations":6772},"soaked-letter","Soaked Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#soaked-letter","A message from a woman at her breaking point. Teresina asks Boris to find a refuge beyond the reach of the vrakhiri, accepting even a cave as the price of escaping the mass. Weathered Note describes another couple trying to hide outside the settlements.",[6766],{"title":6762,"text":6767},"Dearest Boris, I can't take this anymore. One more mass, one more draining, and I shall lose my mind. You say you love me. Prove it. Find a safe place for us, somewhere to hide, somewhere even the vrakhiri are scared to go. I can put up with every hardship –…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6769},"Soaked Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[6773],{"kind":31,"name":1257,"path":1258},{"slug":6775,"name":6776,"path":6777,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6778,"excerpts":6779,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":6783,"sellValue":824,"icon":6784,"categories":6786,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6787,"relations":6788},"soggy-letter","Soggy Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#soggy-letter","Found deep inside Laslea mines. Grgur sends Sandor into the mine’s lowest levels to inspect supports before reopening old galleries for silver production under Skender. Other workers refuse because they fear knockers. The letter explains both the production pressure and the feared danger surrounding that descent.",[6780],{"title":6781,"text":6782},"Work Orders","Sandor, I want you to go down to the lowest levels and check the stanchions. Knyaz Skender demands we increase production so we might revisit the old galleries. Perhaps there's some silver left there. I'm depending on you. The other fools won't do it because…",38,{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6785},"Soggy Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[6789,6792],{"kind":31,"name":6790,"path":6791},"Silver Mines","\u002Fmaps\u002Fvale-sangora#place-935875",{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":6794,"name":6795,"path":6796,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6797,"excerpts":6798,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":167,"icon":6802,"categories":6804,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6805,"relations":6806},"soggy-note","Soggy Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#soggy-note","Read and reread many times. Lyuda rejects Vidmar and gives him the forty-pelt demand to keep him away. The deliberately discouraging request explains their disagreement.",[6799],{"title":6800,"text":6801},"Soggy note","Vidmar, How many times do I need to tell you? I'm not interested. NOT INTERESTED. So stop leaving flowers on my doorstep (I know it was you), stop sending poems (they make me sick), stop making puppy eyes as I walk past. It's not going to happen, ever. And…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6803},"Soggy Note inventory icon",[6],[],[6807],{"kind":31,"name":6808,"path":6809},"Volk and the surrounding Buried Past story","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fvolk",{"slug":6811,"name":6812,"path":6813,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6814,"excerpts":6815,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":273,"icon":6819,"categories":6821,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6822,"relations":6823},"soiled-letter","Soiled Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#soiled-letter","A sombre rumination. The sick writer left his wife Mialle and daughters as soon as symptoms appeared, hoping isolation would protect them. Unfinished Missive records another plague sufferer's isolation near St. Tyna's.",[6816],{"title":6817,"text":6818},"Last Words of a Plague Victim","Lord, I wish I could speak to my Mialle, not scribble my thoughts on damp pages. But it’s all I’ve got left. And it’s all I’ll ever have, isn’t it? I do wonder, how long till the plague takes me? Is it days that I have, or mere hours? When the weakness…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6820},"Soiled Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[6824],{"kind":31,"name":6825,"path":6826},"Unfinished Missive","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#unfinished-missive",{"slug":6828,"name":6829,"path":6830,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6831,"excerpts":6832,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":273,"icon":6835,"categories":6837,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6838,"relations":6839},"soldiers-letter","Soldier's Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#soldiers-letter","A curious story for his wife. Ignat describes a secluded smithy north of Parlita near the mountains, run by an uriash with broken horns. The unusual metals and smithing equipment connect the letter to Nareh’s craft; the Mihai guide covers finding him and restoring the sword.",[6833],{"title":6829,"text":6834},"My dearest Bilyana, I hope my letter finds you in good health. I’m fine – well-fed and doing good work in our Knyaz’s name. They moved us recently to a new camp. I should be able to write more often now - not much going on around here. And nothing as weird…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6836},"Soldier's Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[6840],{"kind":31,"name":6841,"path":4995},"Nareh and St. Mihai’s sword",{"slug":6843,"name":6844,"path":6845,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6846,"excerpts":6847,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":1305,"sellValue":107,"icon":6851,"categories":6853,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6854,"relations":6855},"soldiers-orders","Soldier's Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#soldiers-orders","Communication between Brencis's soldiers. Volomir orders guards to protect woodcutters producing lumber for Ambrus’s construction near Maragir. The note connects the guarded forest worksite with the boyar’s building plans and supply network.",[6848],{"title":6849,"text":6850},"Soldier’s Orders","Sergeant, Your orders couldn’t be any clearer – make sure that the woodcutters's work goes smoothly. If anything comes out of the forest and tries to harm them, you kill it. Boyar Ambrus himself requires the lumber for his construction plans around Maragir –…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6852},"Soldier's Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[6856,6857,6858],{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"kind":31,"name":991,"path":992},{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":6860,"name":6861,"path":6862,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6863,"excerpts":6864,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":21,"sellValue":824,"icon":6868,"categories":6870,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6871,"relations":6872},"soldiers-testimony","Soldier’s Testimony","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#soldiers-testimony","Communication between Brencis's soldiers. Sergeant Ilgen admits hanging captured manumits and defends the killings as retaliation for what happened to his men. Successful Operation records another unit’s summary executions in the language of an official success, giving the two reports sharply different tones.",[6865],{"title":6866,"text":6867},"A Soldier's Testimony","Captain, Let me cut straight to the chase – yes, I killed all those manumit fucks and I’d do it again. Arrest me if you want, sir, but since you didn’t see what they did to my lads, I don’t really think you should judge me and my actions. Hanging the…",{"src":1130,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6869},"Soldier’s Testimony inventory icon",[6],[],[6873,6876],{"kind":31,"name":6874,"path":6875},"An official report of summary executions","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#successful-operation",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":6878,"name":2510,"path":2511,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6879,"excerpts":6880,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":6884,"categories":6886,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6887,"relations":6888},"special-orders","Orders concerning a very valuable transport. Dimitar orders Skender’s treasure sent outside the valley to Catalin and singles out Durandal for special protection. Read it with Final Report to identify the intended heir and explain why the treasure convoy left during the fall of Greifberg. The Cursed Chasm follows the search for that lost transport.",[6881],{"title":6882,"text":6883},"Dimitar's Orders","These chests are to be transported outside Vale Sangora at all cost. All of their contents are to be handed over to His Majesty's firstborn son, Catalin Dragosti, who – as a result of the horrifying events which unfolded tonight – became the rightful knyaz…",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6885},"Special Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[6889,6892,6893],{"kind":31,"name":6890,"path":6891},"The Cursed Chasm","\u002Fquests#the-cursed-chasm",{"kind":31,"name":2513,"path":2514},{"kind":31,"name":2417,"path":2418},{"slug":6895,"name":6896,"path":6897,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":6898,"excerpts":6899,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":862,"sellValue":273,"icon":6902,"categories":6904,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6905,"relations":6906},"stained-letter","Stained Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fstained-letter","A note regarding a fence operating in Neustadt.",[6900],{"title":6896,"text":6901},"Yanda, Fuck Andrei and all his stupid shit. Found a better fence for us. Arrogant arsehole, but his prices are good. Look for him in Neustadt, first house on the right as you come in from the Middens. Show him the silver, and he'll talk. Stay safe, Ruthild",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6903},"Stained Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[6907],{"kind":31,"name":2853,"path":2854},{"slug":6909,"name":6910,"path":5493,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6911,"excerpts":6912,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":273,"icon":6915,"categories":6917,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6918,"relations":6919},"state-of-the-castle-guard","State of the Castle Guard","Guard captain's note regarding the death of Boyar Ambrus. Ion the Ox reports desertions after Ambrus’s death and asks Brencis to turn him into a vrakhir to restore order. Read it beside the reassignment order for the distinction between the official instruction and the garrison’s response.",[6913],{"title":6910,"text":6914},"Since the unfortunate demise of Boyar Ambrus, we noticed a sharp decline in guard morale. There were even a few incidents of desertion. Most of the culprits were apprehended and publicly executed, yet that didn’t seem to help raise morale. It is becoming…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6916},"State of the Castle Guard inventory icon",[6],[],[6920,6922],{"kind":31,"name":6921,"path":5481},"Orders for Ambrus’s troops",{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":6924,"name":2244,"path":2245,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6925,"excerpts":6926,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":352,"sellValue":107,"icon":6930,"categories":6932,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6933,"relations":6934},"stern-reminder","Communication between boyaress Xanthe's officers. Sergeant Leonard says new Blood Guard recruits must arrive at training camps fully equipped and carrying two weeks of provisions. Both a recruit and their direct superior face punishment for failing to comply. The Evaluation Letter explains how recruiters are pressured to find more men for those camps.",[6927],{"title":6928,"text":6929},"Blood Guard Training","To all commanders, I am writing to convey the boyaress's wishes, so read this missive carefully and follow it to the letter. Once enlisted, new recruits for the Blood Guard are to report to one of the training camps, fully equipped, and with enough…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6931},"Stern Reminder inventory icon",[6],[],[6935,6936],{"kind":31,"name":2231,"path":2232},{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":6938,"name":6939,"path":6940,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":6941,"excerpts":6942,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":6945,"categories":6947,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6948,"relations":6949},"storekeeps-letter","Storekeep's Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fstorekeeps-letter","Foreboding. Gerto tells Limar where to find the spare key to his home: inside the lute in the shop, which should be shaken. He has kept the home locked because the creature there is becoming agitated. The letter also asks Limar to care for it and keep the shop running if anything happens to Gerto.",[6943],{"title":6939,"text":6944},"Limar, It’s getting agitated. I’m not sure I’m doing this right. I have a feeling I should keep the door properly locked, just in case. If you need anything from my home, find the lute in the shop and give it a good shake – I put a spare key inside. Fingers…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6946},"Storekeep's Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[6950],{"kind":31,"name":6951,"path":6952},"Merchant’s Key","\u002Fitems\u002Fmerchants-key",{"slug":6954,"name":6955,"path":6875,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6956,"excerpts":6957,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":6783,"sellValue":48,"icon":6961,"categories":6963,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6964,"relations":6965},"successful-operation","Successful Operation","Communication between Brencis's soldiers. Sergeant Ebelin reports using a captive to trap five rescuers, obtaining little intelligence because they were new recruits, then executing them without losses to his unit. The soldiers remain to catch further arrivals. Soldier’s Testimony supplies another account of reprisals against captured rebels.",[6958],{"title":6959,"text":6960},"A Successful Operation","Lieutenant, The operation was a success. As you predicted, the manumits tried to free their comrade – and sprung our trap. We captured five of them, interrogated those still able to talk (no crucial information there, they were all fresh recruits) and…",{"src":1094,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6962},"Successful Operation inventory icon",[6],[],[6966,6968],{"kind":31,"name":6967,"path":6862},"A soldier’s defence of reprisals",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":6970,"name":6971,"path":6236,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6972,"excerpts":6973,"rarity":183,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":6976,"categories":6978,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6979,"relations":6980},"suspicious-vrakhir-in-svartrau","Suspicious Vrakhir in Svartrau","An account about a new vrakhir lurking around Svartrau. This account places Nish’s sighting at the northeastern wall and separates the unknown vrakhir from Brencis’s followers. It also records the writer’s hope that uriashi could become allies, a different concern from the soldiers’ missing-patrolman report.",[6974],{"title":6971,"text":6975},"I spoke with Nish again after he'd finished his patrol. He mentioned a new suspicious vrakhir lurking around Svartrau (last seen around the north-eastern wall) – one not affiliated with Brencis. He wants to find out more, but the bloodsucker is being…",{"src":6201,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6977},"Suspicious Vrakhir in Svartrau inventory icon",[6],[],[6981,6983,6984],{"kind":31,"name":6982,"path":322},"Lacra’s questline",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":6239,"path":6240},{"slug":6986,"name":6987,"path":6988,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":6989,"excerpts":6990,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":313,"sellValue":824,"icon":6993,"categories":6995,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":6996,"relations":6997},"svartrau-the-heart-of-vale-sangora","Svartrau: The Heart of Vale Sangora","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#svartrau-the-heart-of-vale-sangora","Copied on cheap vellum. The history traces Svartrau from a hilltop settlement called Svar to a silver-funded capital under the Boarescus. It dates the established city name and cathedral to 795. The Districts of Svartrau turns that broad history into a guide to the city’s contrasting neighbourhoods.",[6991],{"title":6987,"text":6992},"Although it is now the bustling and ever-growing capital of the region, Svartrau’s beginnings are much more humble. As the first settlement in the valley, it was just a collection of cottages, built on a hill for protection. Initially it was known simply as…",{"src":5039,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":6994},"Svartrau: The Heart of Vale Sangora inventory icon",[6],[],[6998,7001],{"kind":31,"name":6999,"path":7000},"Svartrau’s four districts","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-districts-of-svartrau",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7003,"name":7004,"path":7005,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7006,"excerpts":7007,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":331,"sellValue":252,"icon":7010,"categories":7012,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7013,"relations":7014},"tattered-journal","Tattered Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#tattered-journal","A memoir of a scholar and explorer, whose name remains unknown. Dated March 15, 1346, the explorer’s journal describes a sealed ruin and a key later bought cheaply from a travelling merchant. The writer recognises a resemblance between the key’s design and the door, then plans to return through the mountains to try it. The journal explains the intended destination of the key.",[7008],{"title":7004,"text":7009},"March 15th, AD 1346 It was all true – everything I have read in crumbling old chronicles at the university. There are few places in the world so wild at first glance, yet so dense with ancient secrets, if one knows where to look. Were it not for this…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7011},"Tattered Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[7015],{"kind":31,"name":7016,"path":7017},"Keys and their uses","\u002Fitems\u002Fkeys",{"slug":7019,"name":7020,"path":7021,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7022,"excerpts":7023,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":7026,"categories":7028,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7029,"relations":7030},"tattered-letter","Tattered Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#tattered-letter","Barely legible. The surviving instructions mention Crake, useful supplies and a clearing with a hut. The precise hiding clue is underneath a flat stone marked with an X. The closing fragments refer to an imminent event involving the mines, linking the cache to manumit preparations.",[7024],{"title":7020,"text":7025},"...useful items and... ...instructed by Crake himself... ...at the clearing... hut... underneath a flat stone marked with an 'x'... ...mines is imminent... ...with extreme caution... ...us all. Stronger together, D.",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7027},"Tattered Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[7031,7032],{"kind":31,"name":3426,"path":3427},{"kind":31,"name":2533,"path":2534},{"slug":7034,"name":7035,"path":7036,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7037,"excerpts":7038,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":2410,"sellValue":824,"icon":7041,"categories":7043,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7044,"relations":7045},"tattered-note","Tattered Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#tattered-note","Written in big, blocky letters. Nada addresses Davor, whose brother Matiya has been missing in avalanche-prone mountains for weeks. These three names establish the family relationship behind the warning.",[7039],{"title":7035,"text":7040},"Davor, What a horrible idea. Don't go. Matiya's been gone for weeks – he's gone. Either fallen to his death or been crushed by an avalanche. You know very well how common they are in those parts. I know you love your brother but I beg you to reconsider.…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7042},"Tattered Note inventory icon",[6],[],[7046],{"kind":31,"name":7047,"path":903},"People of Vale Sangora",{"slug":7049,"name":2136,"path":2137,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7050,"excerpts":7051,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":862,"sellValue":167,"icon":7055,"categories":7057,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7058,"relations":7059},"tavr-magh","Meant for an uriash soldier in Bakir's service. Captain Ion reprimands Tavr Magh for maiming three soldiers after they insulted the uriashi. He docks a month’s pay and threatens to report another incident directly to Bakir. The letter is to be read aloud with guards present, illustrating the coercion behind Tavr military service.",[7052],{"title":7053,"text":7054},"Punishment: Tavr Magh","Note: this message is addressed to Tavr Magh, the uriash. Read it aloud to him at your earliest convenience. I suggest you do it accompanied by a few men, should there be need to restrain him. Soldier, your behaviour is unacceptable. The three of our men you…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7056},"Tavr Magh inventory icon",[6],[],[7060,7061,7062],{"kind":31,"name":2123,"path":2124},{"kind":31,"name":2139,"path":2140},{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":7064,"name":7065,"path":6624,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7066,"excerpts":7067,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":290,"sellValue":201,"icon":7071,"categories":7074,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7075,"relations":7076},"teeth-or-the-essence-of-being","Teeth, or the Essence of Being","Clearly written by a disturbed mind. The author places the soul in teeth, citing their durability, serpents’ fangs, ivory, sanzhani and tooth-born warriors. The argument brings several separate stories together; Cadmus and the Dragon is the clearest companion for its claim that teeth can generate new beings.",[7068],{"title":7069,"text":7070},"Teeth, or The Essence of Being","Many learned men ponder where the soul of Man resides. Some think it's situated in one’s heart, while others argue it lives in one’s brain. Both are wrong, however. I believe firmly that the soul of man is in his teeth. For are not teeth the last to…",{"src":7072,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7073},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBBL12.webp","Teeth, or the Essence of Being inventory icon",[6],[],[7077,7079],{"kind":31,"name":7078,"path":381},"The tooth-born warriors",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7081,"name":3422,"path":3423,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7082,"excerpts":7083,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":167,"icon":7087,"categories":7089,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7090,"relations":7091},"thank-you-note","Signed by the lumberjack freed from Ambrus's dungeons. Aldin and Gert thank their rescuer and leave supplies before abandoning the camp. They suspect Branko has revealed its location to Ambrus’s men. The Interrogation Protocols explain the connection: Aldin and Gert endured repeated torture, while Branko was recorded as cooperating immediately.",[7084],{"title":7085,"text":7086},"Thank You","Thank you again for setting us free – those bastards would’ve tortured us until we all went crazy. We couldn’t afford to wait for you there – Branko likely ratted out the location of this camp to Ambrus’s henchmen and we really don’t feel like running into…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7088},"Thank-You Note inventory icon",[6],[],[7092,7093],{"kind":31,"name":3410,"path":3411},{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":7095,"name":7096,"path":7097,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":7098,"excerpts":7099,"rarity":183,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":7100,"categories":7103,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7104,"relations":7105},"the-annals-of-svartrau-cathedral","The Annals of Svartrau Cathedral","\u002Fitems\u002Fthe-annals-of-svartrau-cathedral","A chronicle describing important events in Vale Sangora's history.",[],{"src":7101,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7102},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBBL6.webp","The Annals of Svartrau Cathedral inventory icon",[6,5918],[],[],{"slug":7107,"name":7108,"path":7109,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7110,"excerpts":7111,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":232,"buyValue":472,"sellValue":252,"icon":7114,"categories":7116,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7117,"relations":7118},"the-avignon-papacy","The Avignon Papacy","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-avignon-papacy","Informative though somewhat biased. The essay begins with Clement V’s move to Avignon in 1309 and criticises the French monarchy’s resulting influence over the papacy. The Trial of Knights Templar describes another dispute linking the French crown, Church politics and wealth.",[7112],{"title":7108,"text":7113},"There are some things in this world that may seem obvious, constant, unchangeable – until someone decides to challenge them. Such a thing happened in the year 1309, when Pope Clement V, a Frenchman by birth, decided to reside in Avignon instead of Rome…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7115},"The Avignon Papacy inventory icon",[6],[],[7119,7122],{"kind":31,"name":7120,"path":7121},"Royal and Church power in the Templar trial","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-trial-of-knights-templar",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7124,"name":7125,"path":7126,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7127,"excerpts":7128,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":1432,"sellValue":201,"icon":7131,"categories":7133,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7134,"relations":7135},"the-battle-of-crecy","The Battle of Crécy","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-battle-of-crecy","Eyewitness account. The account dates Crécy to 26 August 1346 and emphasises English preparation, high ground, archery and the disorder of the French attack. Its closing line leaves the war unresolved. A Flemish Rebel’s Memoir provides a civilian rebel’s view of another French military campaign.",[7129],{"title":7125,"text":7130},"As recounted by Jean Froissart, the grim and cruel Battle of Crécy took place on a Saturday, the twenty-sixth day of August in the Year of Our Lord 1346. It occurred in the ninth year of the bloody war for the French throne waged by King Philip of France and…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7132},"The Battle of Crécy inventory icon",[6],[],[7136,7138],{"kind":31,"name":7137,"path":79},"A contrasting account of French warfare",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7140,"name":7141,"path":1010,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7142,"excerpts":7143,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":21,"sellValue":824,"icon":7146,"categories":7148,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7149,"relations":7150},"the-charter-of-rights","The Charter of Rights","Written and circulated on Knyaz Brencis's orders. The charter combines access to healing and limits on taxation with compulsory blood masses, an exclusive official faith and a ban on silver. It promises one fifth of surrendered silver’s value to owners and one third of confiscated value to informants. Habeas Sanguinem gives the separate blood-tithe rules.",[7144],{"title":7141,"text":7145},"Though we remain the unique sovereign of Vale Sangora, with respect for the rights of our subjects, we hereby establish the following laws: 1. No one shall be refused the right to be healed by the knyaz's blood without a valid reason. 2. All adults are…",{"src":2981,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7147},"The Charter of Rights inventory icon",[6],[],[7151,7153],{"kind":31,"name":7152,"path":2858},"The monthly blood-tithe decree",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":7155,"name":7156,"path":7157,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7158,"excerpts":7159,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":232,"buyValue":1360,"sellValue":48,"icon":7162,"categories":7164,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7165,"relations":7166},"the-curse-of-ham","The Curse of Ham","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-curse-of-ham","Biblical commentary. Athanasius of Parlita uses the story of Noah, Ham and Canaan to justify hereditary peasant subordination. On Ruling a Realm develops the broader three-estates hierarchy, making the two texts companions on how religious arguments support social rank.",[7160],{"title":7156,"text":7161},"– from 'Explanations of the Bible' by Athanasius of Parlita We should always remember that all peasants in the world come from just one person – an unfortunate one, at that. As the Bible teaches us, the patriarch Noah had three sons: Shem, Japheth and Ham.…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7163},"The Curse of Ham inventory icon",[6],[],[7167,7169],{"kind":31,"name":7168,"path":2319},"The three-estates hierarchy",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7171,"name":7172,"path":7173,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7174,"excerpts":7175,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":290,"sellValue":201,"icon":7178,"categories":7181,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7182,"relations":7183},"the-cursed-mine","The Cursed Mine","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-cursed-mine","Makes you shiver. A miner’s son survives by refusing to enter an old shaft with his friends. He hears hungry, mocking voices and none of the others return. The account centres on a warning whose original cause has been forgotten; Eat Thy Neighbours supplies another story of hungry beings hiding in caves.",[7176],{"title":7172,"text":7177},"Every mine has its ghost, or so my father used to say. Ours turned out to be no different. The old shaft at the mine’s bottom – we never went there. We knew better, though we couldn’t give a proper reason anymore. It was just a thing one mustn’t do. This…",{"src":7179,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7180},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBW1.webp","The Cursed Mine inventory icon",[6],[],[7184,7186],{"kind":31,"name":7185,"path":1033},"The cave-dwellers’ origin tale",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7188,"name":7189,"path":7190,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":7191,"excerpts":7192,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":3033,"sellValue":252,"icon":7195,"categories":7197,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7198,"relations":7199},"the-dacians","The Dacians","\u002Fitems\u002Fthe-dacians","The pages are damp and mouldy.",[7193],{"title":7189,"text":7194},"After the Arimaspians had disappeared, and before the current inhabitants, a people called the Dacians lived in the Carpathians. Their name might have meant 'wolf' in their language, although we can't say that for sure. Their most powerful god was called…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7196},"The Dacians inventory icon",[6],[],[7200],{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7202,"name":7203,"path":7204,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7205,"excerpts":7206,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":3033,"sellValue":824,"icon":7209,"categories":7212,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7213,"relations":7214},"the-descent","The Descent","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-descent","Brief but unsettling. A father seeking forbidden knowledge sends his son into an ancient ruin, where a wound in the world is said to drain life. The boy returns changed and begins entering homes at night to attack their occupants. She Who Rambles similarly follows a missing child whose return brings contact with another realm.",[7207],{"title":7203,"text":7208},"Deep beneath the hills, beyond a crumbling arch, lies an ancient ruin, older than our cities, older than our books. Those who dare enter must descend a thousand stone steps as their torchlight trembles and chokes, until all that's left is a pathetic ember.…",{"src":7210,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7211},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBR7.webp","The Descent inventory icon",[6],[],[7215,7217],{"kind":31,"name":7216,"path":6611},"Another child’s altered return",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7219,"name":7220,"path":7221,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":7222,"excerpts":7223,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":842,"sellValue":48,"icon":7226,"categories":7229,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7230,"relations":7231},"the-digging-demon","The Digging Demon","\u002Fitems\u002Fthe-digging-demon","The figment of someone's imagination.",[7224],{"title":7220,"text":7225},"Evil permeates the hill Svartrau is built upon. Evil older than you, older than me, older than any dwelling in the valley. And it digs. Its movements are slow, yet deliberate, as if it had no eyes or sense of direction, yet it feels us and it’s coming for…",{"src":7227,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7228},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBR12.webp","The Digging Demon inventory icon",[6],[],[7232],{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7234,"name":7235,"path":7000,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7236,"excerpts":7237,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":1075,"sellValue":48,"icon":7240,"categories":7242,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7243,"relations":7244},"the-districts-of-svartrau","The Districts of Svartrau","A helpful guide. The visitor distinguishes wealthy Silberstein, the impoverished Middens, the Jewish enclave of Neustadt and the busy shops and taverns of Altenmarkt. These social and commercial roles explain the city’s contrasts. Svartrau, the Heart of Vale Sangora covers how silver wealth supported its growth.",[7238],{"title":7235,"text":7239},"My time in Svartrau allowed me to walk the whole city, see both its busy streets and some parts that I would not dare enter if not for one of the locals who accompanied me. Silberstein is where the rich and powerful lay their heads to sleep. The streets are…",{"src":7072,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7241},"The Districts of Svartrau inventory icon",[6],[],[7245,7247],{"kind":31,"name":7246,"path":6988},"How Svartrau grew",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7249,"name":7250,"path":7251,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7252,"excerpts":7253,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":2410,"sellValue":48,"icon":7256,"categories":7258,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7259,"relations":7260},"the-divine-comedy-a-readers-notes","The Divine Comedy – A Reader’s Notes","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-divine-comedy-a-readers-notes","More of a rant than a book. The reader attacks Dante’s self-insertion and imagined conversations with philosophers, yet admits the punishments in Hell made an impression. The Covenant’s chapter on Wrath offers a local example of eternal punishment used to frighten readers into obedience.",[7254],{"title":7250,"text":7255},"Some say God himself inspired the so-called 'Divine Comedy'. I'd say it was inspired by the beans and cabbage the author ate before sitting down to write. First of all, what narcissist makes themselves the main character of their own story? And then…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7257},"The Divine Comedy – A Reader’s Notes inventory icon",[6],[],[7261,7263],{"kind":31,"name":7262,"path":1137},"Fear of punishment in the Covenant",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7265,"name":7266,"path":7267,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7268,"excerpts":7269,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":472,"sellValue":22,"icon":7272,"categories":7274,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7275,"relations":7276},"the-empire-of-mansa-musa","The Empire of Mansa Musa","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-empire-of-mansa-musa","Incredible but true. The account moves from Sundiata Keita’s rise to Mali’s wealth from salt and gold, then the stories surrounding Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca. Its focus on trade-funded power offers a useful comparison with Svartrau’s silver-funded prosperity.",[7270],{"title":7266,"text":7271},"We may know a lot about the powerful rulers of Europe, but the world is much vaster, filled with wonders that strain credulity. Let's take the Mali Empire in faraway Africa. Its rise to power began, as is often the case, with an act of defiance. People say…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7273},"The Empire of Mansa Musa inventory icon",[6],[],[7277,7279],{"kind":31,"name":7278,"path":6988},"Silver and Svartrau’s growth",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7281,"name":7282,"path":885,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7283,"excerpts":7284,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1110,"sellValue":824,"icon":7287,"categories":7290,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7291,"relations":7292},"the-faithful-hound","The Faithful Hound","Frayed and tattered. An old dog abandoned during a food shortage returns as a monstrous avenger on the night its grieving owner dies. It destroys Caosti before lying on the owner’s grave. The Lady and the Mare offers another bond between a human and an animal that continues beyond death.",[7285],{"title":7282,"text":7286},"There was a man in the village of Caosti who lived with his hound. Though the dog grew old and useless, the man refused to put it down, instead taking care of the creature against all reason. When the food got scarce, his family ordered him to no longer feed…",{"src":7288,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7289},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBW9.webp","The Faithful Hound inventory icon",[6],[],[7293,7296],{"kind":31,"name":7294,"path":7295},"Another bond that survives death","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-lady-and-the-mare",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7298,"name":152,"path":153,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7299,"excerpts":7300,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":2999,"sellValue":824,"icon":7303,"categories":7306,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7307,"relations":7308},"the-first-blood-mass","Written and circulated on Knyaz Brencis's orders. The account attributes the public defence of the Covenant of Blood to Leonard, who becomes an adviser after supporting Brencis. Pair it with A History Lesson for two examples of the court using religious language to justify vrakhiri rule.",[7301],{"title":152,"text":7302},"On the first day of his rule, Knyaz Brencis gathered all his subjects at Svartrau Cathedral and said to them: 'Henceforth you shall join my Covenant of Blood. I shall drink your blood and you shall drink mine.' And many people feared those words as, in their…",{"src":7304,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7305},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBB5.webp","The First Blood Mass inventory icon",[6],[],[7309,7311],{"kind":31,"name":7310,"path":137},"The court’s history lesson",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":7313,"name":7314,"path":3663,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7315,"excerpts":7316,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1343,"sellValue":252,"icon":7319,"categories":7322,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7323,"relations":7324},"the-forever-stone","The Forever Stone","Some madman's scribbles. The writer adds an unseen force called the Stone, or Vrachos, beyond the four familiar elements. Its shards enter flesh and corrupt from within. Teeth, or The Essence of Being connects bodily fragments with enduring identity, making it a useful next step through this group of metaphysical texts.",[7317],{"title":7314,"text":7318},"Some have said everything comes from Water, which courses in our veins and feeds all that grows. Some have said everything comes from Fire, which warms, hardens, and transforms. Some have said everything comes from Air, which fills our lungs and sails. Some…",{"src":7320,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7321},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBB14.webp","The Forever Stone inventory icon",[6],[],[7325,7327],{"kind":31,"name":7326,"path":6624},"Teeth and enduring essence",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7329,"name":7330,"path":7331,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7332,"excerpts":7333,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":200,"sellValue":201,"icon":7336,"categories":7339,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7340,"relations":7341},"the-fruit-of-famine","The Fruit of Famine","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-fruit-of-famine","Disturbing little pamphlet. The horror tale makes starvation itself the lure: well-fed observers smell decay, while hungry people see inviting fruit. Eating it ends with vines consuming the victim. The Great Famine provides the historical suffering against which this food-and-hunger legend can be read.",[7334],{"title":7330,"text":7335},"When famine grips the land, strange plants begin to sprout up under the cover of night. They twist out of the ground in tangled knots of fleshy vines, bearing fruit swollen with a dark liquid. To the well-fed, the plants reek like rotting meat left out in…",{"src":7337,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7338},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBR9.webp","The Fruit of Famine inventory icon",[6],[],[7342,7345],{"kind":31,"name":7343,"path":7344},"The historical famine account","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-great-famine",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7347,"name":7348,"path":7349,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7350,"excerpts":7351,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":2410,"sellValue":252,"icon":7354,"categories":7356,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7357,"relations":7358},"the-golden-horde","The Golden Horde","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-golden-horde","An echo of recent history. The history follows the Horde from Genghis Khan’s division of his empire through Batu’s western campaigns and Berke’s demands on European rulers. The Tatars of Vale Sangora narrows the subject to the community living in the valley.",[7352],{"title":7348,"text":7353},"Ulug Ulus' is a vast Mongolian state better known as the 'Golden Horde'. It's part of a bigger empire, but among all the Mongolian states, it may be the most ambitious and fearsome. It was founded after the great Genghis Khan divided his empire amongst his…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7355},"The Golden Horde inventory icon",[6],[],[7359,7361],{"kind":31,"name":7360,"path":4711},"Tatars within Vale Sangora",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7363,"name":7364,"path":7344,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7365,"excerpts":7366,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1001,"sellValue":22,"icon":7369,"categories":7371,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7372,"relations":7373},"the-great-famine","The Great Famine","A harrowing read. The account begins with the cold, wet summer of 1315 and two more ruined harvest years, then describes desperation and rebellion. The World Is Getting Colder places worsening weather in a wider discussion, while The Fruit of Famine turns hunger into supernatural horror.",[7367],{"title":7364,"text":7368},"It all began with the cold and rainy summer of AD 1315, which ruined crops in the fields all the way across Europe. The two following years were no different. People prayed and prayed, but the Lord did not see it fit to answer their prayers. Soon, a great…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7370},"The Great Famine inventory icon",[6],[],[7374,7377],{"kind":31,"name":7375,"path":7376},"The wider change in weather","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-world-is-getting-colder",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7379,"name":7380,"path":7381,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7382,"excerpts":7383,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":233,"sellValue":201,"icon":7386,"categories":7389,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7390,"relations":7391},"the-grumbling-mountain-part-1","The Grumbling Mountain, Part 1","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-grumbling-mountain-part-1","As foreboding as it is enticing. The first part ends with ten would-be climbers killed by an avalanche after answering the mountain’s growl. Continue directly to Part 2: its opening resolves that unanswered call through a boy who hears the mountain differently.",[7384],{"title":7380,"text":7385},"There was something hidden atop Sangora's peaks, a mystery, a treasure, a danger lying in the mists. To traverse the mountain pass was a journey most treacherous – one wrong step, and you'd lie in a snowy grave. Yet despite its dangers and the death that…",{"src":7387,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7388},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBW13.webp","The Grumbling Mountain, Part 1 inventory icon",[6],[],[7392,7395],{"kind":31,"name":7393,"path":7394},"Continue to Part 2","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-grumbling-mountain-part-2",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7397,"name":7398,"path":7394,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7399,"excerpts":7400,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":1360,"sellValue":252,"icon":7403,"categories":7405,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7406,"relations":7407},"the-grumbling-mountain-part-2","The Grumbling Mountain, Part 2","As foreboding as it is enticing. The boy hears a song where others heard a growl, enters the pass and never returns. The mountain takes his name, Mirceas, and the story makes him a protector of later travellers. Part 1 supplies the failed expedition that precedes this change.",[7401],{"title":7398,"text":7402},"Until one day, a young boy got lost in the woods and arrived at the foot of the mountain. It was singing to me, he said, it was calling to me in song. Not a growl, nor a rumble, but a song. And so we knew he was the one, he was the one the mountain was…",{"src":5707,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7404},"The Grumbling Mountain, Part 2 inventory icon",[6],[],[7408,7410],{"kind":31,"name":7409,"path":7381},"Read the failed expedition first",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7412,"name":7413,"path":7414,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7415,"excerpts":7416,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":85,"sellValue":201,"icon":7419,"categories":7421,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7422,"relations":7423},"the-guildss-charter-of-1336","The Guilds's Charter of 1336","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-guildss-charter-of-1336","Issued by Knyaz Skender Dragosti. Skender’s charter requires guild membership for producing, selling or exporting goods in Svartrau. It sets six years of apprenticeship and three years as a journeyman before eligibility for mastery, with an approved work required of artisans. The Charter of Rights gives the later regime’s rules for merchants.",[7417],{"title":7413,"text":7418},"It is hereby declared that – in accordance with a common practice established in all major European cities – all traders and artisans who wish to either produce their goods in Svartrau, sell their goods in the city, or export goods produced in the city to…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7420},"The Guilds's Charter of 1336 inventory icon",[6],[],[7424,7426,7427],{"kind":31,"name":7425,"path":1010},"Merchants under Brencis’s charter",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":7429,"name":7430,"path":7431,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":7432,"excerpts":7433,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":2999,"sellValue":252,"icon":7436,"categories":7438,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7439,"relations":7440},"the-history-of-svartrau-cathedral","The History of Svartrau Cathedral","\u002Fitems\u002Fthe-history-of-svartrau-cathedral","Short yet informative.",[7434],{"title":7430,"text":7435},"There is no grander nor more renowned building in the whole of Vale Sangora than Svartrau Cathedral. This centre of religious devotion dedicated to Saint Mihai has stood tall for many centuries, welcoming throngs of the faithful – with many cases of pilgrims…",{"src":374,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7437},"The History of Svartrau Cathedral inventory icon",[6],[],[7441,7442],{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":1210,"path":1211},{"slug":7444,"name":7445,"path":5476,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7446,"excerpts":7447,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":65,"sellValue":824,"icon":7451,"categories":7453,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7454,"relations":7455},"the-hungarians-campaign","The Hungarians’ Campaign","Leafed through by someone with greasy fingers. The account follows Gelou, Glad, Salan and Menumorut, rulers presented as descendants of Arimaspian heroes, through their defeats or accommodation with Hungarian power. Persica provides the earlier traditions about the Arimaspians to which the narrative appeals.",[7448],{"title":7449,"text":7450},"The Hungarians's Campaign","The times of legendary heroes roaming these lands may not have ended with the decline of the ancient Arimaspians. Not too long ago, 400 or so years back, a number of men claimed to be descendants of those great warriors. Their names were Gelou, Glad, Salan,…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7452},"The Hungarians’ Campaign inventory icon",[6],[],[7456,7458],{"kind":31,"name":7457,"path":5810},"The Arimaspian traditions behind the claim",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7460,"name":7461,"path":7462,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":7463,"excerpts":7464,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":3033,"sellValue":22,"icon":7467,"categories":7469,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7470,"relations":7471},"the-jester-and-the-flute","The Jester and the Flute","\u002Fitems\u002Fthe-jester-and-the-flute","Short, but intriguing.",[7465],{"title":7461,"text":7466},"Once upon a time, in a small village at the end of the valley, lived a young man named Bren. Born with crossed eyes, he was mocked as soon as his peers could speak. To survive, he learned to laugh at himself louder than anyone else, making cruel jeers for a…",{"src":1285,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7468},"The Jester and the Flute inventory icon",[6],[],[7472],{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7474,"name":7475,"path":7476,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7477,"excerpts":7478,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":124,"sellValue":66,"icon":7481,"categories":7484,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7485,"relations":7486},"the-kind-witch","The Kind Witch","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-kind-witch","Few dare keep this on their shelf. Lora enters a swamp to gather healing herbs, returns wounded after escaping a beast and later rises from her grave to attack the village. The narrator turns her failed kindness into a warning against witches. The Restless offers another tale of a community facing a creature at its graveyard.",[7479],{"title":7475,"text":7480},"In the village of Drasten lived Lora, the alderman's daughter. Folk claimed she was a witch, for milk soured at her passing and cats fled from her shadow. But her father, blinded by love, forbade any harm to her. One spring, to prove her kindness and…",{"src":7482,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7483},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBW10.webp","The Kind Witch inventory icon",[6],[],[7487,7490],{"kind":31,"name":7488,"path":7489},"The graveyard threat in The Restless","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-restless",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7492,"name":7493,"path":7295,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7494,"excerpts":7495,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1343,"sellValue":201,"icon":7498,"categories":7501,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7502,"relations":7503},"the-lady-and-the-mare","The Lady and the Mare","A made-up story – most likely. A mare carries her rider away from a violent husband despite a fatal crossbow wound. After the woman’s death they reunite as spirits and help other abused women escape. The Faithful Hound provides a darker version of animal loyalty continuing beyond death.",[7496],{"title":7493,"text":7497},"On moonlit nights, when the clouds part like a curtain, you might catch a glimpse of a white mare and her lady rider galloping through the woods. Untouched by the passing of time, eternal. A long, long time ago, the mare was the beloved steed of a cruel…",{"src":7499,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7500},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBR14.webp","The Lady and the Mare inventory icon",[6],[],[7504,7506],{"kind":31,"name":7505,"path":885},"The avenging hound",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7508,"name":7509,"path":7510,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7511,"excerpts":7512,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1110,"sellValue":22,"icon":7515,"categories":7517,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7518,"relations":7519},"the-legend-of-orudu","The Legend of Orudu","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-legend-of-orudu","Smells of dust and candlewax. Orudu earns the immortality he requested from Sheemma through deeds, learning and magic, but wisdom makes him reject it. A holy Font appears where he dies. Edug and Elil offers a contrasting story in which passage through the goddess’s realm ends in a different kind of immortality.",[7513],{"title":7509,"text":7514},"There once lived a man named Orudu and he wanted to live forever. He prayed to Sheemma for guidance and the She-Spider revealed herself to him. Sheemma requested of Orudu to demonstrate his worthiness and promised to fulfil his wish if he did. And so Orudu…",{"src":6201,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7516},"The Legend of Orudu inventory icon",[6],[],[7520,7522],{"kind":31,"name":7521,"path":2199},"The brothers who become sun and moon",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7524,"name":7525,"path":242,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7526,"excerpts":7527,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":200,"sellValue":48,"icon":7530,"categories":7533,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7534,"relations":7535},"the-legend-of-the-sanzhani-and-aine","The Legend of the Sanzhani and Áine","Fits in a back pocket. The Sanzhani steal Aine’s beautiful smile after being welcomed into Tir na nOg, then flee Manannan’s revenge. Their interest in teeth connects this legend to Teeth, or The Essence of Being; A Physician’s Journal gives a child’s account of meeting woodland fairies.",[7528],{"title":7525,"text":7529},"Far to the north, amidst thick mist and icy waters, lies a magic realm named Tír na nÓg. It is the birthplace of all beauty in the world. Brave Tuata warriors live and feast there, along with leprechauns and fairies and all sorts of magical creatures. But…",{"src":7531,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7532},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBW6.webp","The Legend of the Sanzhani and Áine inventory icon",[6],[],[7536,7538,7539],{"kind":31,"name":7537,"path":6624},"Teeth and the sanzhani",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":7540,"path":7541},"Sanzhani","\u002Fcreatures\u002Fsanzhani",{"slug":7543,"name":7544,"path":210,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7545,"excerpts":7546,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":472,"sellValue":48,"icon":7549,"categories":7551,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7552,"relations":7553},"the-manumit-problem","The Manumit Problem","Communication between Brencis's soldiers. Captain Barnim dismisses Crake as an invented folk hero and recommends public executions to end the rebellion. Warning to All Soldiers gives the opposite operational assessment: the rebels are capable ambushers, and prisoners are needed to identify their leader.",[7547],{"title":7544,"text":7548},"As for the rebels, those manumits – I don’t think they’re a real problem. Just a bunch of rabble-rousers and petty criminals with too much time on their hands. My solution: catch a few and execute them in full public view. Then some of the more hot-headed…",{"src":3656,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7550},"The Manumit Problem inventory icon",[6],[],[7554,7557],{"kind":31,"name":7555,"path":7556},"The order to take the rebels seriously","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#warning-to-all-soldiers",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":7559,"name":7560,"path":7561,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7562,"excerpts":7563,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":842,"sellValue":22,"icon":7567,"categories":7570,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7571,"relations":7572},"the-many-letters-excerpt-from-a-memoir","The Many Letters: Excerpt from a Memoir","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-many-letters-excerpt-from-a-memoir","Written and circulated on Knyaz Brencis's orders. The visitor describes Brencis’s collection of correspondence attributed to Marco Polo, Thomas Aquinas and Dante, then uses those friendships as a measure of his worth. Skender’s Sins makes the related loyalist argument that Brencis’s long life grants him exceptional wisdom.",[7564],{"title":7565,"text":7566},"The Many Letters","When Knyaz Brencis invited me to Greifberg castle, I expected to see the usual thing: the lavish riches I had beheld when visiting other rulers. I was surprised to discover that the Knyaz of Vale Sangora relished books and other writings above anything else.…",{"src":7568,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7569},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBB6.webp","The Many Letters: Excerpt from a Memoir inventory icon",[6],[],[7573,7575],{"kind":31,"name":7574,"path":6729},"Longevity as a claim to good rule",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":7577,"name":7578,"path":7579,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7580,"excerpts":7581,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":290,"sellValue":22,"icon":7584,"categories":7587,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7588,"relations":7589},"the-many-mischiefs-of-reynard-the-fox","The Many Mischiefs of Reynard the Fox","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-many-mischiefs-of-reynard-the-fox","Written and circulated on Knyaz Brencis's orders. The hooded recruiter’s name, A-Man-You-Meet, turns the fable into an anti-manumit lesson. Reynard persuades the animals that rebellion would serve a deceiver’s ambition rather than their needs. The Manumit Manifesto supplies the rebels’ own argument for overthrowing their ruler.",[7582],{"title":7578,"text":7583},"One evening, in the woods, Reynard the Fox stumbled upon Grimbard the Badger, Baldwin the Ass, and Kyward the Hare. They were all carrying pitchforks, scythes, and torches. 'Are you off to fight someone?', Reynard asked. 'We were just about to tell you!',…",{"src":7585,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7586},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBB9.webp","The Many Mischiefs of Reynard the Fox inventory icon",[6],[],[7590,7592],{"kind":31,"name":7591,"path":2266},"The argument the fable opposes",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":7594,"name":7595,"path":7596,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7597,"excerpts":7598,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":1075,"sellValue":201,"icon":7602,"categories":7604,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7605,"relations":7606},"the-maragir-prayer-book-appendix-1","The Maragir Prayer Book, Appendix 1","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-maragir-prayer-book-appendix-1","A few tips on how to save your soul. The appendix bans charms, divination, consulting suspected witches and interpreting dreams while allowing relics, saints and divinely sent visions. Those distinctions show how the writer separates approved worship from forbidden magic. Around Animals records the everyday beliefs such rules challenge.",[7599],{"title":7600,"text":7601},"The Maragir Prayer Book, appendix 1","Since the Devil never rests and loves confusing us, here is a list of practices that a Christian must renounce: - Using charms or amulets – which are not the same as holy relics, mind you! - Practising fortune telling, like searching for omens in the clouds…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7603},"The Maragir Prayer Book, Appendix 1 inventory icon",[6],[],[7607,7609],{"kind":31,"name":7608,"path":872},"The household folklore behind the prohibitions",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7611,"name":7612,"path":7613,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7614,"excerpts":7615,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1024,"sellValue":201,"icon":7618,"categories":7620,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7621,"relations":7622},"the-miracle-fields","The Miracle Fields","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-miracle-fields","By an anonymous writer. Segiu’s villagers trade the blacksmith’s unwilling daughter to a stranger for abundant crops, then die after eating the harvest. The promised rescue from hunger becomes the punishment. The Fruit of Famine uses the same temptation of plentiful food in a different supernatural tale.",[7616],{"title":7612,"text":7617},"Once upon a time, a sudden hailstorm destroyed the crops in the hamlet of Segiu. Then, a plague swept through their fowl, leaving the villagers gaunt and fearful of the coming winter. One dusk, a stranger visited them. His forearms were scarred with twisting…",{"src":5502,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7619},"The Miracle Fields inventory icon",[6],[],[7623,7625],{"kind":31,"name":7624,"path":7331},"Another deadly promise of food",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7627,"name":7628,"path":7629,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7630,"excerpts":7631,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":313,"sellValue":48,"icon":7634,"categories":7636,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7637,"relations":7638},"the-missing-informant","The Missing Informant","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-missing-informant","Communication between Brencis's soldiers. Ulbert reports finding the mutilated huntsman who revealed a manumit stash and asks Renz to join a retaliatory hunt. The missing ears connect the killing to the threats made in A Fair Warning and A Brother’s Warning.",[7632],{"title":7628,"text":7633},"Renz, We finally found the huntsman who tipped us off the whereabouts of the manumit stash. Or to be precise: the dogs found what was left of him. Those fucking monsters took their time playing with him before they finally cut his throat. Of course, they…",{"src":1112,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7635},"The Missing Informant inventory icon",[6],[],[7639,7641],{"kind":31,"name":7640,"path":57},"The ear-taking threat in Crake’s message",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":7643,"name":7644,"path":2178,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7645,"excerpts":7646,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":1024,"sellValue":48,"icon":7649,"categories":7651,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7652,"relations":7653},"the-moth-omen","The Moth Omen","Went through a few owners, by the looks of it. This warning presents crimson moths as heralds of an older force, claiming their spawn turn a person into a vessel. Dream Stealers instead focuses on moths taking dreams, while Hollow Hearts links their arrival with the loss of human hearts and emotions.",[7647],{"title":7644,"text":7648},"Beware the crimson moths. They are not of this world. They are not life. They come from something deeper, hungrier, older than me or you. Than the towns we live in. They drift in on silent wings, soft as dust, red as fresh wounds. Do not be fooled – they…",{"src":5783,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7650},"The Moth Omen inventory icon",[6],[],[7654,7656],{"kind":31,"name":7655,"path":2165},"The dream-stealing moths",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7658,"name":7659,"path":7660,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":7661,"excerpts":7662,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":1001,"sellValue":201,"icon":7665,"categories":7668,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7669,"relations":7670},"the-noble-basarab","The Noble Basarab","\u002Fitems\u002Fthe-noble-basarab","The ink is almost faded.",[7663],{"title":7659,"text":7664},"This is a story of a noble knight who went by the name of Basarab. His heart was pure and his soul devoted. On one sun-filled day, he saw a most wondrous lady on a mansion balcony. She wore a dress blue as the sky and her eyes were of the same colour.…",{"src":7666,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7667},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBBL7.webp","The Noble Basarab inventory icon",[6],[],[7671],{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7673,"name":7674,"path":94,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7675,"excerpts":7676,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":823,"sellValue":252,"icon":7679,"categories":7681,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7682,"relations":7683},"the-peasant-uprising-in-vale-sangora","The Peasant Uprising in Vale Sangora","Official account of the Shrike's Crag revolt. The author praises Skender’s repression and the massacre of cornered rebels at Shrike’s Crag. Skender’s Sins condemns the same ruler and massacre to legitimise Brencis. Reading the two together exposes how opposing governments use the uprising in their political arguments.",[7677],{"title":7674,"text":7678},"Peasants, being as they are limited in their thinking and incapable of reflection, oftentimes forget their God-ordained place and dare to question the order imposed by their Father above, praised be His name. On such occasions, they need to be reminded, in…",{"src":3035,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7680},"The Peasant Uprising in Vale Sangora inventory icon",[6],[],[7684,7686],{"kind":31,"name":7685,"path":6729},"The later condemnation of Skender",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7688,"name":7689,"path":7489,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7690,"excerpts":7691,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":21,"sellValue":824,"icon":7694,"categories":7697,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7698,"relations":7699},"the-restless","The Restless","Better not read after dark. Opened graves in Zerau are eventually traced to a huge black hound eating the dead. Neither a watchman nor an exorcism stops it, and the assembled villagers flee when it appears. The Faithful Hound offers another supernatural-dog tale with a different motive: revenge for an abandoned owner.",[7692],{"title":7689,"text":7693},"In the hamlet of Zerau, graves began to open at night. People spoke of demons come to devour the dead, for no man would dare such defilement. The elderman called for a watchman to guard the graveyard, but by dawn the man was gone, never to be seen again. A…",{"src":7695,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7696},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBW11.webp","The Restless inventory icon",[6],[],[7700,7702],{"kind":31,"name":7701,"path":885},"The hound’s revenge in Caosti",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7704,"name":7705,"path":7706,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7707,"excerpts":7708,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":3033,"sellValue":66,"icon":7711,"categories":7714,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7715,"relations":7716},"the-resurrection","The Resurrection","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-resurrection","Written and circulated on Knyaz Brencis's orders. The tract compares Brencis’s return from death with Christ’s resurrection and uses that parallel to justify drinking his blood. A Vicar’s Inquiry challenges the doctrine from within scripture, asking how blood consumption can fit the Bible’s prohibition.",[7709],{"title":7705,"text":7710},"Many of you will surely hear troublemakers and seditionists calling our knyaz slanderous names, such as 'a monster' or 'a walking corpse'. But their vicious words prove naught but one thing: that they have never read a single verse of the Bible. Yes, Knyaz…",{"src":7712,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7713},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBB1.webp","The Resurrection inventory icon",[6],[],[7717,7719],{"kind":31,"name":7718,"path":285},"The vicar’s scriptural objection",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":7721,"name":7722,"path":7723,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7724,"excerpts":7725,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":2999,"sellValue":66,"icon":7728,"categories":7730,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7731,"relations":7732},"the-rise-and-fall-of-manesh","The Rise and Fall of Manesh","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-rise-and-fall-of-manesh","A story as old as time. Naneka reassembles Asser’s body and uses a tooth stolen from Manesh in a temporary resurrection. Their son later kills the vrakhir and restores peace to Urduk. Teeth, or The Essence of Being provides the wider argument connecting teeth with a being’s enduring power.",[7726],{"title":7722,"text":7727},"A year after the first ziggurat was built in Urduk, the Vicious God sent a blight on men once again. His mighty offspring, a vrakhir named Manesh, descended upon the world in a storm of blood-red lightning bolts. And only Asser, the Priest-King of Urduk, had…",{"src":3604,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7729},"The Rise and Fall of Manesh inventory icon",[6],[],[7733,7735],{"kind":31,"name":7734,"path":6624},"Teeth, resurrection and essence",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7737,"name":7738,"path":4344,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7739,"excerpts":7740,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":1851,"sellValue":48,"icon":7743,"categories":7746,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7747,"relations":7748},"the-saviour","The Saviour","Written and circulated on Knyaz Brencis's orders. The text casts plague as the first Horseman of the Apocalypse and Brencis as protection against Famine, War and Death. It presents dependence on him as the route to survival. Like Cures Like reverses the healer image by accusing him of engineering the crisis.",[7741],{"title":7738,"text":7742},"We all have been blessed and fortunate to have survived the plague. And yet, there are reasons to believe it was but the first of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. But fear not, brothers and sisters, for we are being watched over by the only hero who…",{"src":7744,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7745},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBB4.webp","The Saviour inventory icon",[6],[],[7749,7751],{"kind":31,"name":7750,"path":4331},"The opposing accusation about the plague",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":7753,"name":7754,"path":7755,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7756,"excerpts":7757,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":1128,"sellValue":22,"icon":7760,"categories":7762,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7763,"relations":7764},"the-scarlet-sorrow","The Scarlet Sorrow","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-scarlet-sorrow","Might give you goosebumps. A mourner first sees her dead lover after blood falls onto his grave, then returns nightly until the offerings consume her own life. 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She would kneel by the stone, speak to him softly, and clear the…",{"src":6438,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7761},"The Scarlet Sorrow inventory icon",[6],[],[7765,7768],{"kind":31,"name":7766,"path":7767},"A poem of loss","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#you-left",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7770,"name":7771,"path":7772,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7773,"excerpts":7774,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":233,"sellValue":201,"icon":7777,"categories":7779,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7780,"relations":7781},"the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-i","The Secret History of Vale Sangora I","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-i","A tattered page torn from Brother Albertus's magnum opus. Part I of XVI — The writer’s purpose. The opening prayer frames the work as a personal account of darkness in Vale Sangora. Continue to II for the journey into the valley.",[7775],{"title":7771,"text":7776},"May the One and True God, in his infinite mercy, steady my hand and guide my quill, for what I am about to commit here to paper is hard to comprehend and even harder to describe. May He guard my soul as I write of the Devil’s doings. 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III describes what happened while crossing those mountains.",[7791],{"title":7788,"text":7792},"Despite years of learning, when I first heard of Vale Sangora, I could not even place it on the map. And no wonder, for it is remote and hard to reach. Encompassed on all sides by the mighty Carpathian Mountains, it is accessible solely through narrow…",{"src":1165,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7794},"The Secret History of Vale Sangora II inventory icon",[6],[],[7798,7800,7803],{"kind":31,"name":7799,"path":7772},"Previous: part I",{"kind":31,"name":7801,"path":7802},"Next: part III","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-iii",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7805,"name":7806,"path":7802,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7807,"excerpts":7808,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":1360,"sellValue":66,"icon":7811,"categories":7813,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7814,"relations":7815},"the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-iii","The Secret History of Vale Sangora III","A tattered page torn from Brother Albertus's magnum opus. Part III of XVI — Crossing the Carpathians. The narrator’s confidence as a native of Turin gives way to wolves and avalanches. IV moves from the dangers of the journey to an unexpected ancient structure.",[7809],{"title":7806,"text":7810},"As a native of Turin, I was no stranger to mountains and their many dangers, and so, in my arrogance, I thought myself well-prepared for crossing the Carpathians. God saw fit to punish me for my hubris. 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V follows the traveller into Svartrau.",[7826],{"title":7823,"text":7827},"For most of our journey, we saw few traces of civilisation: shepherds' lean-tos, roadside shrines. One day, though, as we were nearing Vale Sangora, I noticed a huge block of stone amidst the dwarf pines, expertly hewn and marked with flaking paint. It must…",{"src":6438,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7829},"The Secret History of Vale Sangora IV inventory icon",[6],[],[7833,7835,7838],{"kind":31,"name":7834,"path":7802},"Previous: part III",{"kind":31,"name":7836,"path":7837},"Next: part V","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-v",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7840,"name":7841,"path":7842,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7843,"excerpts":7844,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":200,"sellValue":66,"icon":7847,"categories":7849,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7850,"relations":7851},"the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-ix","The Secret History of Vale Sangora IX","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-ix","A tattered page torn from Brother Albertus's magnum opus. Part IX of XVI — The account of Mihai. This passage introduces Mihai as a pagan-born knight who died fighting a monster. Compare Sancti Mihai Historia Vera for the hidden account of his enemies, sword and burial.",[7845],{"title":7841,"text":7846},"Though through most of its history Vale Sangora was sparsely populated, it boasted two saints: St. Mihai and St. Tyna. The former lived many centuries ago and was born a pagan. According to the early chroniclers, he was a fearless knight who died fighting a…",{"src":315,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7848},"The Secret History of Vale Sangora IX inventory icon",[6],[],[7852,7855,7858,7859],{"kind":31,"name":7853,"path":7854},"Previous: part VIII","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-viii",{"kind":31,"name":7856,"path":7857},"Next: part X","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-x",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":1210,"path":1211},{"slug":7861,"name":7862,"path":7837,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7863,"excerpts":7864,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":6783,"sellValue":252,"icon":7867,"categories":7869,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7870,"relations":7871},"the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-v","The Secret History of Vale Sangora V","A tattered page torn from Brother Albertus's magnum opus. Part V of XVI — First sight of Svartrau. The cathedral and Greifberg Castle prompt the traveller to question how such a remote place became prosperous. The Silver Rush history gives the economic background to that question.",[7865],{"title":7862,"text":7866},"Having arrived in Svartrau, the capital of Vale Sangora, I gazed at its imposing cathedral and the mighty Greifberg castle, looming on the crags up above. They seemed out of place here, at the edge of the world, miles away from the nearest town. Why would…",{"src":7499,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7868},"The Secret History of Vale Sangora V inventory icon",[6],[],[7872,7874,7877],{"kind":31,"name":7873,"path":2988},"Previous: part IV",{"kind":31,"name":7875,"path":7876},"Next: part VI","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-vi",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7879,"name":7880,"path":7876,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7881,"excerpts":7882,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":2999,"sellValue":201,"icon":7885,"categories":7887,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7888,"relations":7889},"the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-vi","The Secret History of Vale Sangora VI","A tattered page torn from Brother Albertus's magnum opus. Part VI of XVI — A city of many languages. Traders, shepherds, miners and mercenaries make Svartrau multilingual. The traveller’s admiration turns to anxiety about greed; VII introduces the ruler who summoned him.",[7883],{"title":7880,"text":7884},"Another thing which surprised me during my first days in Svartrau was the variety of languages I heard on its cobbled streets. Romanian, German, Hungarian, Hebrew – and seemingly innumerable Slavonic dialects I could hardly tell apart. Jewish traders struck…",{"src":2188,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7886},"The Secret History of Vale Sangora VI inventory icon",[6],[],[7890,7892,7895],{"kind":31,"name":7891,"path":7837},"Previous: part V",{"kind":31,"name":7893,"path":7894},"Next: part VII","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-vii",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7897,"name":7898,"path":7894,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7899,"excerpts":7900,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":331,"sellValue":201,"icon":7903,"categories":7905,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7906,"relations":7907},"the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-vii","The Secret History of Vale Sangora VII","A tattered page torn from Brother Albertus's magnum opus. Part VII of XVI — Skender behind the courtly image. The narrator contrasts Skender’s appearance with his cruelty and spending on Greifberg’s dungeons. Compare XII for the flattering version the writer was commissioned to produce.",[7901],{"title":7898,"text":7902},"The man who had summoned me, Knyaz Skender Dragosti, cut a striking figure. Tall, handsome, and always richly dressed, he seemed the epitome of nobility. But, as is often the case, appearances were deceiving. I quickly discovered that Knyaz Skender was a…",{"src":1026,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7904},"The Secret History of Vale Sangora VII inventory icon",[6],[],[7908,7910,7912,7913],{"kind":31,"name":7909,"path":7876},"Previous: part VI",{"kind":31,"name":7911,"path":7854},"Next: part VIII",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":7915,"name":7916,"path":7854,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7917,"excerpts":7918,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":1110,"sellValue":252,"icon":7921,"categories":7923,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7924,"relations":7925},"the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-viii","The Secret History of Vale Sangora VIII","A tattered page torn from Brother Albertus's magnum opus. Part VIII of XVI — Research in the cathedral. The traveller works in Svartrau Cathedral’s archives and describes its intimidating atmosphere. IX and X then turn to the saints associated with the valley.",[7919],{"title":7916,"text":7920},"I spent most of my time in the archives of Svartrau Cathedral. Right from the start, I took a dislike to this building – though undoubtedly grand, it seemed dark and foreboding. Rather than representing God’s boundless love, it seemed to embody the wrath He…",{"src":7179,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7922},"The Secret History of Vale Sangora VIII inventory icon",[6],[],[7926,7928,7930],{"kind":31,"name":7927,"path":7894},"Previous: part VII",{"kind":31,"name":7929,"path":7842},"Next: part IX",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7932,"name":7933,"path":7857,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7934,"excerpts":7935,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":1851,"sellValue":252,"icon":7938,"categories":7940,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7941,"relations":7942},"the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-x","The Secret History of Vale Sangora X","A tattered page torn from Brother Albertus's magnum opus. Part X of XVI — The account of Tyna. The narrator describes the healing traditions surrounding Tyna and visits to her sarcophagus. The convent’s later crisis is recorded separately in the Prioress’s Journal.",[7936],{"title":7933,"text":7937},"The second of the Valley’s saints, St. Tyna, was a simple shepherdess turned miracle worker. According to the legends, there was no illness she could not cure, no festering wound she could not cleanse. Even today, people flock to the convent she established…",{"src":1285,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7939},"The Secret History of Vale Sangora X inventory icon",[6],[],[7943,7945,7948],{"kind":31,"name":7944,"path":7842},"Previous: part IX",{"kind":31,"name":7946,"path":7947},"Next: part XI","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-xi",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7950,"name":7951,"path":7947,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7952,"excerpts":7953,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":5438,"sellValue":66,"icon":7956,"categories":7958,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7959,"relations":7960},"the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-xi","The Secret History of Vale Sangora XI","A tattered page torn from Brother Albertus's magnum opus. Part XI of XVI — Fear after sunset. Warnings from shepherds and miners lead into the nightly shutting of windows and doors. XII explains how this atmosphere drew the writer away from his official assignment.",[7954],{"title":7951,"text":7955},"At first, the people of Vale Sangora struck me as deeply superstitious. Shepherds would warn me to stay away from certain slopes and ravines, miners spoke of terrors dwelling in abandoned shafts, and everyone had a deep, almost primeval, fear of the dark. As…",{"src":5502,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7957},"The Secret History of Vale Sangora XI inventory icon",[6],[],[7961,7963,7965],{"kind":31,"name":7962,"path":7857},"Previous: part X",{"kind":31,"name":7964,"path":3042},"Next: part XII",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":7967,"name":7968,"path":3042,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7969,"excerpts":7970,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":65,"sellValue":66,"icon":7973,"categories":7976,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7977,"relations":7978},"the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-xii","The Secret History of Vale Sangora XII","A tattered page torn from Brother Albertus's magnum opus. Part XII of XVI — The commissioned history and the private one. The writer admits praising Skender and omitting his wrongdoing in the commissioned work. His private interest lies in the valley’s history; compare VII for his own assessment of Skender.",[7971],{"title":7968,"text":7972},"I wrote of Knyaz Skender’s deeds, as instructed, extolling his supposed virtues and omitting his many sins. But what truly interested me was the history of the valley itself. It was unlike any place I had ever been to. It seemed to thrum with a dark energy,…",{"src":7974,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7975},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBW5.webp","The Secret History of Vale Sangora XII inventory icon",[6],[],[7979,7981,7984,7985],{"kind":31,"name":7980,"path":7947},"Previous: part XI",{"kind":31,"name":7982,"path":7983},"Next: part XIII","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-xiii",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":7987,"name":7988,"path":7983,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":7989,"excerpts":7990,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":232,"buyValue":1851,"sellValue":48,"icon":7993,"categories":7995,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":7996,"relations":7997},"the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-xiii","The Secret History of Vale Sangora XIII","A tattered page torn from Brother Albertus's magnum opus. Part XIII of XVI — Questions the locals will not answer. The narrator describes unsuccessful attempts to make suspicious residents speak. XIV introduces Zdislav as a willing storyteller.",[7991],{"title":7988,"text":7992},"The locals were suspicious of me. At the sound of my questions, they would wince, as if I had just touched a sore spot. Desperate to learn their secrets, I tried everything to get them to speak, but to no avail.",{"src":7531,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":7994},"The Secret History of Vale Sangora XIII inventory icon",[6],[],[7998,8000,8003],{"kind":31,"name":7999,"path":3042},"Previous: part XII",{"kind":31,"name":8001,"path":8002},"Next: part XIV","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-xiv",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":8005,"name":8006,"path":8002,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8007,"excerpts":8008,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":290,"sellValue":824,"icon":8011,"categories":8013,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8014,"relations":8015},"the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-xiv","The Secret History of Vale Sangora XIV","A tattered page torn from Brother Albertus's magnum opus. Part XIV of XVI — Listening to Zdislav. 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He spoke of fearsome warriors from ages past, clad in gold and colourful plumes, fighting pale wraiths amid the…",{"src":235,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8012},"The Secret History of Vale Sangora XIV inventory icon",[6],[],[8016,8018,8021,8022],{"kind":31,"name":8017,"path":7983},"Previous: part XIII",{"kind":31,"name":8019,"path":8020},"Next: part XV","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-xv",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":8023,"path":8024},"Zdislav","\u002Fcharacters\u002Fzdislav",{"slug":8026,"name":8027,"path":8020,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8028,"excerpts":8029,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1128,"sellValue":252,"icon":8032,"categories":8034,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8035,"relations":8036},"the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-xv","The Secret History of Vale Sangora XV","A tattered page torn from Brother Albertus's magnum opus. Part XV of XVI — Questioning the stories. The traveller asks Zdislav about fairies, ancient heroes and likhos. The passage preserves the question; XVI turns to news brought into the valley from outside.",[8030],{"title":8027,"text":8031},"Once, I asked Zdislav if he believed his stories. Were Vale Sangora’s dark woods truly the home of mischievous fairies? Did proud heroes and mysterious warlocks once tread its winding paths? Should we all fear the bloodthirsty likhos that emerged from the…",{"src":5409,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8033},"The Secret History of Vale Sangora XV inventory icon",[6],[],[8037,8039,8042,8043],{"kind":31,"name":8038,"path":8002},"Previous: part XIV",{"kind":31,"name":8040,"path":8041},"Next: part XVI","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-xvi",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"kind":31,"name":8023,"path":8024},{"slug":8045,"name":8046,"path":8041,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8047,"excerpts":8048,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":1110,"sellValue":66,"icon":8051,"categories":8053,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8054,"relations":8055},"the-secret-history-of-vale-sangora-xvi","The Secret History of Vale Sangora XVI","A tattered page torn from Brother Albertus's magnum opus. Part XVI of XVI — News of the plague. A trader arriving from Constanța describes a spreading plague and overcrowded graves. This is the final numbered part in this collection, linking the secluded valley to the wider crisis.",[8049],{"title":8046,"text":8050},"Secluded as Vale Sangora is, it is not cut off from the world completely. A trader from Constanța arrived yesterday – his clothing in tatters, his voice shaking with fear. He spoke of a plague, spreading like wildfire through his city. Of people dying in the…",{"src":7288,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8052},"The Secret History of Vale Sangora XVI inventory icon",[6],[],[8056,8058],{"kind":31,"name":8057,"path":8020},"Previous: part XV",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":8060,"name":8061,"path":850,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8062,"excerpts":8063,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":1058,"sellValue":252,"icon":8066,"categories":8068,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8069,"relations":8070},"the-song-of-roland","The Song of Roland","Copied by a gifted scribe. The retelling follows Ganelon’s betrayal, the ambush at Roncevaux and Roland’s fatal delay in sounding his horn. Arman’s Letter to Skender connects this heroic tradition to a sword offered as Roland’s Durandal.",[8064],{"title":8061,"text":8065},"The brave knight Roland was the great champion of the Franks and a loyal vassal of Emperor Charlemagne. Together, they fought the Saracens in Spain. After seven tiring years, the war was coming to an end, and both sides were ready for peace talks. Roland's…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8067},"The Song of Roland inventory icon",[6],[],[8071,8073],{"kind":31,"name":8072,"path":837},"The sword presented as Durandal",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":8075,"name":8076,"path":4711,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8077,"excerpts":8078,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":6783,"sellValue":201,"icon":8081,"categories":8083,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8084,"relations":8085},"the-tatars-of-vale-sangora","The Tatars of Vale Sangora","Brief but informative. The history traces local Tatar families to soldiers who remained after Batu Khan’s 1241 campaign and received grazing rights from the Dragostis in exchange for allegiance. It identifies Tantari as their main settlement. The Golden Horde supplies the broader account of the campaigns.",[8079],{"title":8076,"text":8080},"The history of Tatars in the valley is not very long – most can trace their bloodline to the Mongol army led by Batu-Khan that crossed the river Danube in AD 1241 and sacked the region. While most of the invading army marched onward to attack the Kingdoms of…",{"src":1434,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8082},"The Tatars of Vale Sangora inventory icon",[6],[],[8086,8088],{"kind":31,"name":8087,"path":7349},"The wider Mongol expansion",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":8090,"name":8091,"path":8092,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8093,"excerpts":8094,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":2999,"sellValue":252,"icon":8097,"categories":8099,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8100,"relations":8101},"the-teutonic-knights","The Teutonic Knights","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-teutonic-knights","Smells like cured leather. The account describes the knights’ invitation to the Carpathians in 1211 to fight the Cumans, their growing settlements and eventual expulsion by Andrew II. The Trial of Knights Templar follows the downfall of a different military religious order.",[8095],{"title":8091,"text":8096},"Not many people know this, but there was a time when one could easily meet a Teutonic Knight in the Carpathians. The former crusaders were invited here in the year 1211, for the usual reasons – they were meant to defend the Kingdom of Hungary against the…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8098},"The Teutonic Knights inventory icon",[6],[],[8102,8104],{"kind":31,"name":8103,"path":7121},"The fate of another knightly order",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":8106,"name":8107,"path":8108,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8109,"excerpts":8110,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":1024,"sellValue":48,"icon":8113,"categories":8116,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8117,"relations":8118},"the-thirsty-giant","The Thirsty Giant","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-thirsty-giant","Author unknown. The Arimaspian story makes the giant’s stone body the cause of endless thirst, first for water and then for human blood. Killing him scatters fragments that continue entering flesh. The Forever Stone develops the same image of an indestructible power divided into corrupting shards.",[8111],{"title":8107,"text":8112},"Once there was a giant, and his flesh was made of stone; hard and jagged. And since he was made of stone, the giant was forever dry, forever thirsty. And so, the giant drank. He drank streams, and rivers, and lakes. Soon everything was dry, and withering,…",{"src":8114,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8115},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBB15.webp","The Thirsty Giant inventory icon",[6],[],[8119,8121],{"kind":31,"name":8120,"path":3663},"The related Stone and shards account",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":8123,"name":8124,"path":8125,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8126,"excerpts":8127,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":232,"buyValue":5438,"sellValue":48,"icon":8130,"categories":8132,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8133,"relations":8134},"the-timeless-beauty","The Timeless Beauty","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-timeless-beauty","Makes you think. Ilinca buys a potion to outshine her sister Floarea, but perfect skin becomes marble and leaves her a statue. The Miracle Fields offers a parallel bargain in which a promised improvement is fulfilled through a destructive twist.",[8128],{"title":8124,"text":8129},"She went by the name of Ilinca and all her life she lived in the shadow of her beautiful younger sister, Floarea. Where Floarea tread, heads turned in awe. Where Ilinca went, she was invisible. And the envy pierced her heart. Desperate to be adored, she…",{"src":7974,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8131},"The Timeless Beauty inventory icon",[6],[],[8135,8137],{"kind":31,"name":8136,"path":7613},"Another dangerous bargain",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":8139,"name":8140,"path":7121,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8141,"excerpts":8142,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":5438,"sellValue":48,"icon":8145,"categories":8147,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8148,"relations":8149},"the-trial-of-knights-templar","The Trial of Knights Templar","Recently copied – the ink has barely dried. The author weighs accusations of worshipping Baphomet and Sheema against the possibility that the Templars’ wealth motivated their destruction. The Avignon Papacy provides the companion criticism of French royal influence over the Church.",[8143],{"title":8140,"text":8144},"The Knights Templar were once a force to be reckoned with. Tasked with protecting pilgrims in the Holy Land, they became a symbol of bravery and devotion. With every passing year, they grew stronger, wealthier and more prominent. But today, they're gone.…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8146},"The Trial of Knights Templar inventory icon",[6],[],[8150,8152],{"kind":31,"name":8151,"path":7109},"French power and the papacy",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":8154,"name":8155,"path":8156,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8157,"excerpts":8158,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1128,"sellValue":48,"icon":8161,"categories":8164,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8165,"relations":8166},"the-true-story-of-the-manumit-rebellion","The True Story of the Manumit Rebellion","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-true-story-of-the-manumit-rebellion","Written and circulated on Knyaz Brencis's orders. The purported former recruit describes coercion and atrocities by a group near Maragir, then urges readers to report rebels to soldiers. Its confessional framing makes it a counterpoint to the rebels’ manifesto and its promise of liberation.",[8159],{"title":8155,"text":8160},"I am writing this confession of my own accord, in search of absolution, but also to deliver a stark warning. I was part of a local manumit group, hiding in the woods near Maragir. I joined them, deceived by their blatant lies about our knyaz. By the time I…",{"src":8162,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8163},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBB8.webp","The True Story of the Manumit Rebellion inventory icon",[6],[],[8167,8169],{"kind":31,"name":8168,"path":2266},"The manumits’ own appeal",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":8171,"name":8172,"path":8173,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8174,"excerpts":8175,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":65,"sellValue":48,"icon":8178,"categories":8180,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8181,"relations":8182},"the-ugly-angel","The Ugly Angel","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#the-ugly-angel","Author unknown. A widow protects a horned child from villagers and raises it peacefully in the forest. Years later an alderman chooses to leave them alone after seeing her restored happiness. The Kind Witch provides a contrasting narrator who interprets compassion for an outcast as a fatal error.",[8176],{"title":8172,"text":8177},"Long ago, at the edge of a village lived a widow. Her husband had gone to war and never returned, and sorrow had hollowed her out. One spring, she found a child at the forest’s edge – horned, rough-skinned, its face more goat than human. The villagers cried…",{"src":3145,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8179},"The Ugly Angel inventory icon",[6],[],[8183,8185],{"kind":31,"name":8184,"path":7476},"A contrasting tale of an outcast",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":8187,"name":8188,"path":7376,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8189,"excerpts":8190,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":1023,"buyValue":472,"sellValue":252,"icon":8193,"categories":8195,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8196,"relations":8197},"the-world-is-getting-colder","The World Is Getting Colder","Few dare believe it. The writer records cooler summers, faster-moving glaciers, earlier closure of mountain passes and worsening harvests, interpreting them as possible signs of the end times. The Great Famine describes the consequences of sustained cold and rain beginning in 1315.",[8191],{"title":8188,"text":8192},"Something strange is happening to the weather. Summers are not as warm as they used to be. In the mountains, glaciers seem to be moving faster and passes become impenetrable earlier and earlier in the year. Rains ruin crops every other year, and the orchards…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8194},"The World Is Getting Colder inventory icon",[6],[],[8198,8200],{"kind":31,"name":8199,"path":7344},"Cold weather and the Great Famine",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":8202,"name":8203,"path":8204,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":8205,"excerpts":8206,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":167,"icon":8209,"categories":8211,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8212,"relations":8213},"thiefs-note","Thief's Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fthiefs-note","A note found on a lonely corpse.",[8207],{"title":8203,"text":8208},"Aldo, The rumours are true - there is a crypt under the cathedral courtyard! It must be full of all kinds of treasure. I snuck into the library and found a book that said that the entrance was hidden under St. Mihai’s memorial stone - the problem is, I have…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8210},"Thief's Note inventory icon",[6],[],[8214],{"kind":31,"name":1210,"path":1211},{"slug":8216,"name":8217,"path":8218,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8219,"excerpts":8220,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":107,"icon":8223,"categories":8225,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8226,"relations":8227},"thiefs-orders","Thief's Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#thiefs-orders","A short note describing a young thief's task. Dragan sends Filip to steal an ermine cloak from a merchant in Altenmarkt for Andrei. The letter identifies the employer, the district and the target garment. Guards’ Report supplies the separate location of Andrei’s butcher-shop hideout.",[8221],{"title":8217,"text":8222},"Filip, Andrei’s not happy. And when he’s not happy… Well, you know what that means. So consider this your last fucking chance. One of the merchants in Altenmarkt boasts that he has a real ermine fur cloak for sale. The boss wants it. And seriously - if you…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8224},"Thief's Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[8228,8230],{"kind":31,"name":8229,"path":2838},"Andrei’s hideout report",{"kind":31,"name":2853,"path":2854},{"slug":8232,"name":683,"path":684,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8233,"excerpts":8234,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":438,"sellValue":273,"icon":8238,"categories":8240,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8241,"relations":8242},"threatening-letter","The manumits are not to be trifled with. The threat targets Rudolf for supplying soldiers at Stoneward Post. It reveals the resistance's pressure on civilians who trade with the garrison.",[8235],{"title":8236,"text":8237},"A Threatening Letter","Rudolf, You’ve been warned. We told you to stop doing business with the soldiers in the Stoneward Post. You thought we were joking? That we didn’t have an eye on you? We are many and the vrakhiri will soon learn about it, too. And so will you. We are coming…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8239},"Threatening Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[8243],{"kind":31,"name":5128,"path":5129},{"slug":8245,"name":644,"path":645,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8246,"excerpts":8247,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":8250,"categories":8252,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8253,"relations":8254},"threatening-letter-from-ambrus","Written in response to the recent attacks on the knyaz's transports. Ambrus orders the next prisoner transport sent directly to Maragir, with paperwork identifying any nobles among the captives. He wants bodies for a message to an opponent. His Annoyed Letter names Coen and similarly requests collectors of noble birth for this purpose.",[8248],{"title":644,"text":8249},"My esteemed brother-in-arms, I'm writing to ask you to direct the next transport directly to me, to Maragir. Please make sure to attach a document regarding the prisoners – remember to inform me of anyone of blue blood. There's a message I need to leave for…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8251},"Threatening Letter from Ambrus inventory icon",[6],[],[8255,8256,8257],{"kind":31,"name":632,"path":633},{"kind":31,"name":5110,"path":5111},{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":8259,"name":6297,"path":6298,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8260,"excerpts":8261,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":621,"sellValue":167,"icon":8264,"categories":8266,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8267,"relations":8268},"threatening-letter-from-bakir","Full of hyperbole and threats. Bakir orders his soldiers to kill Coen after repeated disruption of his operations. He threatens to drain them all and deal with Coen personally if they fail. The Angry and Reproachful Letters show the earlier stages of his mounting frustration.",[8262],{"title":6297,"text":8263},"My despicable, lowly serfs, I am sick of hearing about this Coen of Laslea – and even sicker with all the problems he’s causing. Need I remind you that our work is necessary to keep the valley a happy place? And if and when that work is interrupted,…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8265},"Threatening Letter from Bakir inventory icon",[6],[],[8269,8270,8271],{"kind":31,"name":578,"path":579},{"kind":31,"name":590,"path":591},{"kind":31,"name":593,"path":594},{"slug":8273,"name":8274,"path":8275,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8276,"excerpts":8277,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":107,"icon":8280,"categories":8282,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8283,"relations":8284},"threatening-note","Threatening Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#threatening-note","Brother's warning. Jani's relative challenges her unwanted suitor to enter the Lunar Tournament and bring back a ring from the boyar's vault. The note explains the dare; follow Bakir's guide for the tournament and castle encounters.",[8278],{"title":8274,"text":8279},"Stop bothering my sister. She’s not interested in you. She never has been, and she never will be. You talk a big game, but you’re the only one who believes your yapping. Jani knows you’re a good-for-nothing coward, you've proved it time and again. You don’t…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8281},"Threatening Note inventory icon",[6],[],[8285],{"kind":31,"name":8286,"path":594},"Bakir and the Lunar Tournament",{"slug":8288,"name":4620,"path":4621,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8289,"excerpts":8290,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":2999,"sellValue":201,"icon":8293,"categories":8295,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8296,"relations":8297},"thugs-journal","Notes of a bandit preying upon the foolish folk. The bandit calls the lights Fool's Lights because treasure-seekers follow them into his gang's ambush. Compare this account with the invitation in Offer before investigating the lights near Maragir.",[8291],{"title":4620,"text":8292},"Things are weird around here, the best kind of weird. Got them Fool’s Lights by the swamp and they get us loot like no other. Think Ma used to name them something or other, but methinks Fool’s Lights fits better. Fools keep coming to chase them, thinking God…",{"src":333,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8294},"Thug's Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[8298,8299],{"kind":31,"name":4617,"path":4618},{"kind":31,"name":5276,"path":5277},{"slug":8301,"name":8302,"path":8303,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8304,"excerpts":8305,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":1024,"sellValue":824,"icon":8308,"categories":8310,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8311,"relations":8312},"to-fight-the-miasma","To Fight the Miasma","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#to-fight-the-miasma","Seems to be missing some pages. The pamphlet explains plague through corrupted air and bodily humours, recommending foul-smelling mixtures and drawing out illness with meat or frogs. Those ideas belong to its historical medical outlook. On the Origin and Spread of the Plague presents a competing astrological explanation.",[8306],{"title":8302,"text":8307},"There is a simple yet effective remedy to fight the miasma in the air that is spreading the plague. To restore the balance, take a bucket of onions and lard, and leave it outside in the sun to rot. The stench that will soon begin wafting from it will counter…",{"src":7101,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8309},"To Fight the Miasma inventory icon",[6],[],[8313,8315],{"kind":31,"name":8314,"path":4924},"Another contemporary theory of plague",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":8317,"name":2039,"path":2040,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8318,"excerpts":8319,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":8323,"categories":8326,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8327,"relations":8328},"torn-out-page","A page forcibly torn out from a book. This page supplies the spoken ending missing from the ritual book in The Price of Magic: “Vita et mors. Erige velamen inter eos, profer praesidium. Salva vitam, aufer vitam.” It completes the instructions for the bracelet ritual that Marcus describes in his journal.",[8320],{"title":8321,"text":8322},"A Torn Out Page","(...) after the ritual is completed, one only needs to finish it by uttering the following phrase: ‘Vita et mors. Erige velamen inter eos, profer praesidium. Salva vitam, aufer vitam.’",{"src":8324,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8325},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_Q102_MihaisNotes.webp","Torn Out Page inventory icon",[6],[],[8329,8330],{"kind":31,"name":2023,"path":2024},{"kind":31,"name":2036,"path":2037},{"slug":8332,"name":5234,"path":5235,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8333,"excerpts":8334,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":107,"icon":8338,"categories":8340,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8341,"relations":8342},"tower-owners-journal","Some people just want to be left alone. The supposed werewolf around this tower was its owner wearing a wolf skin and howling to frighten away visitors. His journal explicitly explains the staged sightings and his goal of living alone.",[8335],{"title":8336,"text":8337},"Tower Owner’s Journal","(...) Finally, some peace and quiet! When I moved into the tower, somehow visitors started popping in every other day. ‘Oh, who are you, sir?’ ‘Are you some kind of a wise man? Maybe you can help me with my boil?’ ‘Please, can we stay the night in your…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8339},"Tower Owner's Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[8343],{"kind":31,"name":5222,"path":5223},{"slug":8345,"name":8346,"path":8347,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8348,"excerpts":8349,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":1851,"sellValue":48,"icon":8352,"categories":8354,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8355,"relations":8356},"transylvania","Transylvania","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#transylvania","Clearly copied by a lazy monk. The text explains Transylvania through names meaning land beyond the forest and seven towns or castles. It identifies the Apuseni woodland as the likely forest reference and ends by comparing regional fortresses with Greifberg. Svartrau’s history gives the valley’s own urban context.",[8350],{"title":8346,"text":8351},"The land we know as Transylvania has been called many names, each an attempt to capture a fraction of its rich and complex essence. 'Terra ultra silvam', or 'the land beyond the forest', is the name we find in some documents. The 'forest' in question is most…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8353},"Transylvania inventory icon",[6],[],[8357,8359],{"kind":31,"name":8358,"path":6988},"Svartrau’s growth and setting",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":8361,"name":8362,"path":8363,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":8364,"excerpts":8365,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":842,"sellValue":201,"icon":8368,"categories":8370,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8371,"relations":8372},"transylvanian-saxons","Transylvanian Saxons","\u002Fitems\u002Ftransylvanian-saxons","From a private collection.",[8366],{"title":8362,"text":8367},"Most folk rarely even leave their town of birth – and sensibly so, given how dangerous travel can be. But sometimes, some people may be invited to a place so distant and foreign that curiosity gets the better of them. Such was the case with German settlers…",{"src":826,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8369},"Transylvanian Saxons inventory icon",[6],[],[8373],{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":8375,"name":4137,"path":4138,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8376,"excerpts":8377,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":273,"icon":8380,"categories":8382,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8383,"relations":8384},"trappers-letter","A reasonable warning. Vaclav leaves the trapping camp at dawn after hearing a non-human creature snarling nearby. Hunter's Journal provides a longer account of a different camp stalker and the hunter's attempted traps.",[8378],{"title":4137,"text":8379},"Danu, I saw it again. That thing. It came near our camp – I could hear it, snarling, mumbling something. I don’t know what it is. What it wants. But it wasn’t human. You told me that you didn’t believe me. And that’s fine, I don’t care anymore. I left at…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8381},"Trapper's Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[8385],{"kind":31,"name":1544,"path":1545},{"slug":8387,"name":1274,"path":1275,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8388,"excerpts":8389,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":438,"sellValue":167,"icon":8392,"categories":8394,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8395,"relations":8396},"travellers-diary","A man's account of his journey to Vale Sangora. The traveller decides to return to Hispania after finding the valley's beauty inseparable from its dangers. Painter's Diary offers another outsider's view, from an exile unable to return to Lombardy.",[8390],{"title":1274,"text":8391},"I have been on the road for many years, but never seen a land like this. Oh, how I miss the warmth of my beloved Hispania now… The sun over Vale Sangora seems to shine dimmer, and the woods are full of creatures I thought belonged only in tales. 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his not-so-significant other. The soldier refuses to leave his post despite trouble at home. Read it beside the castle’s military orders for the contrast between family obligations and service to Brencis.",[8540],{"title":8536,"text":8541},"Dearie, I know things are hard, but I won't abandon my post just because you're feeling a little worn out. My duty to the knyaz is far more critical than some leaking roof or wilting crops. You'll manage. We all make sacrifices...",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8543},"Unfinished Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[8547],{"kind":31,"name":8548,"path":5493},"Castle garrison correspondence",{"slug":8550,"name":6825,"path":6826,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8551,"excerpts":8552,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":273,"icon":8556,"categories":8558,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8559,"relations":8560},"unfinished-missive","Plague victims didn't leave much behind them. The isolated writer is too weak from plague symptoms to reach nearby St. Tyna's Convent. Read Prioress's Journal for the crisis inside the institution he hopes can save him.",[8553],{"title":8554,"text":8555},"An Unfinished Letter","I think I might finally be dying. The sickness people talk about, the one ravaging the valley – I think I got it, too. Living in my lonely hut, far away from civilisation, I still somehow got sick. The irony would make me laugh, but it hurts like hell when I…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8557},"Unfinished Missive inventory icon",[6],[],[8561],{"kind":31,"name":8562,"path":1292},"Prioresss Journal",{"slug":8564,"name":115,"path":116,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8565,"excerpts":8566,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":438,"sellValue":273,"icon":8570,"categories":8572,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8573,"relations":8574},"unmailed-letter","A note detailing a brazen heist plan. Bogun gains entry to the cathedral by volunteering for renovation work and plans a night-time escape through the bell tower onto the roofs. For the player's library investigation and night entry, follow the Annals route.",[8567],{"title":8568,"text":8569},"An Unmailed Letter","Dragan, I can’t believe it, but you were right. I walked straight inside the cathedral and asked to help out with the renovation. They are so busy there, they didn’t give me a second glance – just a list of tasks to do! I will stay here for a couple of days,…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8571},"Unmailed Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[8575],{"kind":31,"name":8576,"path":7097},"The Annals Of Svartrau Cathedral",{"slug":8578,"name":8579,"path":8580,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8581,"excerpts":8582,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":273,"icon":8585,"categories":8587,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8588,"relations":8589},"unsent-letter","Unsent Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#unsent-letter","Never delivered to the addressee. Jozef writes to Hana from overcrowded St. Tyna’s, telling her to stay away. His failed plan to leave with Skender’s messenger adds a pilgrim’s account to the prioress’s record of sickness and deaths.",[8583],{"title":8579,"text":8584},"Hana, Do not come to St. Tyna's. The place is full already. People everywhere – camping in the courtyard, sleeping in the chapel. All of them sick, dying left and right. Sisters pray day and night but to no avail. Knyaz Skender's messenger is here, he's…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8586},"Unsent Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[8590,8592],{"kind":31,"name":8591,"path":1292},"Prioress’s account",{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"slug":8594,"name":8595,"path":8596,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":8597,"excerpts":8598,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":107,"icon":8604,"categories":8606,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8607,"relations":8608},"unsent-note","Unsent Note","\u002Fitems\u002Funsent-note","A note about a potential new way to complete a thankless task.",[8599,8602],{"title":8600,"text":8601},"Unsent Missive","Liyan, I’m writing to let you know that I won’t be needing your guide services anymore. I’ve had it with skulking through the caves searching for kobold droppings, and I know you have clients out there that pay better for your assistance. Whichever god made…",{"title":8595,"text":8603},"Your excellency, We proceeded as instructed, with care and extreme caution. Unfortunately, in spite of our best efforts, I have to report that we lost one item which might have been of interest to you: a figurine of a coiled snake, made out of silver, with…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8605},"Unsent Note inventory icon",[6],[],[8609],{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":8611,"name":8612,"path":3221,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8613,"excerpts":8614,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":273,"icon":8618,"categories":8620,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8621,"relations":8622},"unsent-report","Unsent Report","A communication between soldiers. Valim leaves most soldiers at camp and sends four with Xanthe’s apprentice and the two uriashi guides. Pair it with Ink-Stained Journal: the apprentice describes the hidden purpose that the escort does not understand.",[8615],{"title":8616,"text":8617},"Soldier’s Unsent Report","Captain, As ordered, we escorted Lady Xanthe’s apprentice to the area where one of the uriashi stones is supposed to be. In fact, we met two goatmen nearby – they showed proper deference to our uniforms, so the witch asked them to be her guides. They agreed.…",{"src":169,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8619},"Unsent Report inventory icon",[6],[],[8623,8625],{"kind":31,"name":8624,"path":3209},"The apprentice’s journal",{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":8627,"name":3303,"path":3304,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8628,"excerpts":8629,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":167,"icon":8633,"categories":8635,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8636,"relations":8637},"urgent-letter","Written by one of Ambrus's senior officers. Sergeant Chenko orders soldiers to direct vagrants and idle workers to the swamps to gather leeches before the marshes freeze. Instructions from Ambrus explain the urgency: live leeches supply the spittle used to preserve the court’s stored blood.",[8630],{"title":8631,"text":8632},"Workers Needed","Soldiers, Should you come across any layabouts or vagrants, direct them to the swamps. Boyar Ambrus wishes to collect as many leeches as possible before the mires freeze over. We need as many hands as we can get. Sergeant Chenko",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8634},"Urgent Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[8638,8639],{"kind":31,"name":2156,"path":2157},{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"slug":8641,"name":8642,"path":8643,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8644,"excerpts":8645,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":1470,"sellValue":273,"icon":8648,"categories":8650,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8651,"relations":8652},"urgent-orders","Urgent Orders","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#urgent-orders","Urgent soldier orders in Ambrus's absence. Girron is ordered to keep men in the ritual chamber after Ambrus’s death and attack Coen on sight. 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Bishop Athanasius tells his cousin how he secured a grange from Knyaz Tiberiu and describes plans to add an almshouse to Svartrau Cathedral. Old Missive gives the later transfer of power from the Boarescu family to Ovidiu Dragosti.",[8721],{"title":8722,"text":8723},"A Very Old Letter","My dearest cousin, I hope that your new grange serves you well. The knyaz wanted to give it to one of his lackeys, but I was able to persuade him that it’s God’s will that you have it. Valerian was not lying when he said that Tiberiu has no real backbone –…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8725},"Very Old Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[8729],{"kind":31,"name":5324,"path":5325},{"slug":8731,"name":8732,"path":8733,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8734,"excerpts":8735,"rarity":183,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":8739,"categories":8741,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8742,"relations":8743},"vichos-journal","Vicho's Journal","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#vichos-journal","The notes seem erratic and desperate. This farewell belongs to Vicho’s death outcome: he addresses Coen after deciding to walk into sunlight. His story also has a survival route, covered with the later conversation and blood delivery in the Vicho guide.",[8736],{"title":8737,"text":8738},"A Farewell Note","Coen, This last entry in my journal I address to you. As you read this, I am no longer among the living. Last night, I realised that I had been a fool – there is no stopping the hunger in me from growing. There is no sure method to keep myself in control.…",{"src":203,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8740},"Vicho's Journal inventory icon",[6],[],[8744],{"kind":31,"name":1754,"path":1755},{"slug":8746,"name":8747,"path":8748,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8749,"excerpts":8750,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":8753,"categories":8755,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8756,"relations":8757},"volks-letter","Volk's Letter","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#volks-letter","Surprisingly legible, given the author's blind. Volk says he rejected an offer to trap Coen, leaves on another journey and asks Coen to look after his sword. The letter is his farewell within Buried Past; the Volk guide follows the earlier meetings and family history.",[8751],{"title":8747,"text":8752},"My dearest Coen, Hope this finds you well. Excuse the messy penmanship and brevity – hard to write with no eyes. Brencis's men came to see me. Offered a fuck ton of denarii if I'd set up a trap for you here. Gave it a hard think and decided against it in the…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8754},"Volk's Letter inventory icon",[6],[],[8758,8760],{"kind":31,"name":8759,"path":6809},"Volk",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":8762,"name":8763,"path":8764,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8765,"excerpts":8766,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":20,"buyValue":313,"sellValue":252,"icon":8769,"categories":8772,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8773,"relations":8774},"wake-up-before-its-too-late","Wake Up Before It’s Too Late","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#wake-up-before-its-too-late","Illegal samizdat. The leaflet questions whether the promised blood levy can remain small if the court gains new vrakhiri or its rulers lose control of their hunger. Habeas Sanguinem records the formal limit being challenged: one pint per adult each month.",[8767],{"title":8763,"text":8768},"Do you believe the leeches when they claim they only need a few drops of blood from each of us? For now, this may be true. But what if a new vrakhir shows up? One invited by their Court or created by Brencis himself? We know they can do that – turn a regular…",{"src":8770,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8771},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBY8.webp","Wake Up Before It’s Too Late inventory icon",[6],[],[8775,8777],{"kind":31,"name":8776,"path":2858},"The stated blood-tithe limit",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":8779,"name":8780,"path":8781,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":13,"description":8782,"excerpts":8783,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":931,"sellValue":107,"icon":8787,"categories":8789,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8790,"relations":8791},"wanted-poster","Wanted Poster","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#wanted-poster","What a dashing young man.",[8784],{"title":8785,"text":8786},"Coen Wanted Letter","Coen's actions affected local law enforcers. Now they are issuing an edict against him.",{"src":2589,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8788},"Wanted Poster inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":8793,"name":8794,"path":8795,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8796,"excerpts":8797,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":272,"sellValue":167,"icon":8800,"categories":8802,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8803,"relations":8804},"wanted-coen-of-laslea","Wanted: Coen of Laslea","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#wanted-coen-of-laslea","Boyar Ambrus's orders concerning a dangerous thug. Ambrus orders Coen's arrest after another transport to Greifberg is delayed. The message also says his men have dealt with a manumit cell, connecting the wanted notice to disruptions in the blood supply network.",[8798],{"title":8794,"text":8799},"To all units, Should you come across an individual known as Coen of Laslea, son of Pieter, apprehend him and notify me instantly. I’ve had about enough of his meddling. Another transport to Greifberg got delayed and I will not have the knyaz doubt my…",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8801},"Wanted: Coen of Laslea inventory icon",[6],[],[8805,8806,8807],{"kind":31,"name":3708,"path":3709},{"kind":31,"name":427,"path":428},{"kind":31,"name":750,"path":751},{"slug":8809,"name":8810,"path":8811,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8812,"excerpts":8813,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":107,"icon":8816,"categories":8818,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8819,"relations":8820},"warehouse-stock","Warehouse Stock","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#warehouse-stock","A list of goods once stored in the Grozavu Warehouse. This is Grozavu Warehouse’s dated inventory, including farm supplies, hides, rope, oil and food. Read it with Field Report to connect the warehouse supplies with the confiscations in Svartrau.",[8814],{"title":8810,"text":8815},"Grozavu Warehouse – stored goods (as of the 12th day of November, A.D. 1346) 1. Wheat – 26 sacks 2. Flour – 33 sacks 3. Cheese – 29 wheels 4. Honey – 5 clay jars 5. Fruit and vegetables (carrots, cabbages, onions, turnips, apples, etc.) – 15 crates 6. Wool –…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8817},"Warehouse Stock inventory icon",[6],[],[8821],{"kind":31,"name":8822,"path":2469},"Confiscated supplies in Svartrau",{"slug":8824,"name":8825,"path":8826,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8827,"excerpts":8828,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":107,"icon":8832,"categories":8834,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8835,"relations":8836},"warning","Warning","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#warning","A cautionary note about Florica's alarming behaviour. Vasile reports that Florica Moraru’s mother refuses both access to her daughter and an offered vial of vrakhir blood. He also describes animal-like noises coming from their wagon and warns his correspondent about the family.",[8829],{"title":8830,"text":8831},"Warning: Florica","Brother, Watch out for Florica Moraru. Her mother was acting very strange. Didn’t allow me to see her, saying the girl was sick. But when I offered to sell them a vial of vrakhir’s blood, the mother quickly refused. Also, I heard this strange noise coming…",{"src":393,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8833},"Warning inventory icon",[6],[],[8837],{"kind":31,"name":8838,"path":4045},"Recruiters offering vrakhiri blood",{"slug":8840,"name":8841,"path":3775,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":8842,"excerpts":8843,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":862,"sellValue":273,"icon":8847,"categories":8849,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8850,"relations":8851},"warning-from-simeon","Warning from Simeon","A letter signed by Doctor Simeon. Simeon addresses Ivo after Eli and his wife have been killed, identifying Vicho as the danger and announcing that he is going into hiding. Follow A Study in Crimson for the investigation and its choices.",[8844],{"title":8845,"text":8846},"A Warning","Ivo, Vicho has finally lost it. The hunger inside him is no longer in check – I warned the fool that someday feeding on rats and pigs would no longer suffice. He killed Eli the jeweller and his wife. I tried to warn them, telling them about his true nature……",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8848},"Warning from Simeon inventory icon",[6],[],[8852,8855],{"kind":31,"name":8853,"path":8854},"A Study in Crimson","\u002Fquests\u002Fa-study-in-crimson",{"kind":31,"name":1754,"path":1755},{"slug":8857,"name":8858,"path":8859,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8860,"excerpts":8861,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":107,"icon":8864,"categories":8866,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8867,"relations":8868},"warning-from-xanthe","Warning from Xanthe","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#warning-from-xanthe","Ominous and creepy. Xanthe orders Coen killed because she believes his victories are making him more dangerous. Read it beside the Blood Guard punishment letters: one addresses the threat outside her ranks, while the others enforce loyalty within them.",[8862],{"title":8858,"text":8863},"More and more often death comes our way, trailing Coen of Laslea. And with each life he presents to the Reaper, he grows stronger, more formidable. We cannot allow this. Honour my blood and my wishes: find him and cut out his cursed heart. Boyaress Xanthe",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8865},"Warning from Xanthe inventory icon",[6],[],[8869,8871,8873],{"kind":31,"name":8870,"path":4029},"Bohdan’s punishment",{"kind":31,"name":8872,"path":4049},"Viorel’s punishment",{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":8875,"name":8876,"path":8877,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8878,"excerpts":8879,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":331,"sellValue":824,"icon":8882,"categories":8885,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8886,"relations":8887},"warning-to-all-patrols-near-parlita","Warning to All Patrols Near Parlita","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#warning-to-all-patrols-near-parlita","Communication between Brencis's soldiers. The warning names the ravine on the road from Parlita toward Svartrau’s Northern Gate. Voices and spoiled rations are the travellers’ reported disturbances. Use the ravine and Northern Gate road to place the warning on the map.",[8880],{"title":8876,"text":8881},"Soldiers, If you’re on patrol duty near Parlita and travel on the road from the village towards the Northern Gate of Svartrau, you might be passing through a ravine. Be warned: something weird is happening around that area. People say they’d heard voices…",{"src":8883,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8884},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBG15.webp","Warning to All Patrols Near Parlita inventory icon",[6],[],[8888,8889],{"kind":31,"name":3791,"path":1685},{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":8891,"name":8892,"path":7556,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8893,"excerpts":8894,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":1024,"sellValue":824,"icon":8898,"categories":8900,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8901,"relations":8902},"warning-to-all-soldiers","Warning to All Soldiers","Communication between Brencis's soldiers. The order warns that manumits can ambush larger forces and insists on live capture to uncover other cells and Crake’s identity. The Manumit Problem dismisses both the threat and Crake himself, so the two notices reveal conflicting assessments within the army.",[8895],{"title":8896,"text":8897},"A Warning to All Soldiers","To all soldiers, More manumits have been spotted in the area, so stay vigilant. Do not underestimate the situation – they might be fewer than us, but they are smart and know how to draw our forces into an ambush. If you encounter the rebels, it is of utmost…",{"src":1130,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8899},"Warning to All Soldiers inventory icon",[6],[],[8903,8905],{"kind":31,"name":8904,"path":210},"The captain who dismisses the threat",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"slug":8907,"name":8908,"path":8909,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8910,"excerpts":8911,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":391,"sellValue":273,"icon":8915,"categories":8917,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8918,"relations":8919},"warning-bandits","Warning: Bandits","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#warning-bandits","A friendly advice. Ilya places the suspected bandits west of the camp and tentatively connects them with Constantin Vulpea. The useful direction is west; the skill-book guide covers Constantin’s encounter and teaching route.",[8912],{"title":8913,"text":8914},"Beware the Bandits","Bandits have been spotted in the area, west of your camp. Probably robber baron Constantin Vulpea's men – consider them very dangerous. Haven't attacked anyone yet, so they may be looking for someone or something specific. But even so, stay vigilant. If you…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8916},"Warning: Bandits inventory icon",[6],[],[8920],{"kind":31,"name":8921,"path":8922},"Constantin’s teaching route","\u002Fguides\u002Fskill-books#vendor-constantin",{"slug":8924,"name":8925,"path":8926,"detail":12,"indexable":12,"mergedHere":13,"answered":12,"description":6165,"excerpts":8927,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":167,"icon":8931,"categories":8933,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8934,"relations":8935},"warning-blood-addict","Warning: Blood Addict","\u002Fitems\u002Fwarning-blood-addict",[8928],{"title":8929,"text":8930},"Beware: Coman","To all units, Beware of a man named Coman. He has developed an unhealthy interest in the boyaress's blood. Keep an eye on him. 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It seems he is indeed under vrakhiri protection – we saw him discuss something with men wearing the old hag's colours and they parted in peace. Unfortunately, we weren't able to approach close…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8945},"Warning: Racovitza inventory icon",[6],[],[8949,8950],{"kind":31,"name":989,"path":974},{"kind":31,"name":8951,"path":5569},"Tantari mill orders",{"slug":8953,"name":8954,"path":8955,"detail":13,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":13,"answered":13,"description":8956,"excerpts":8957,"rarity":18,"material":18,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":676,"sellValue":167,"icon":8958,"categories":8960,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8961,"relations":8962},"warrant-of-capture","Warrant of Capture","\u002Fitems#warrant-of-capture","The face looks familiar...",[],{"src":2589,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8959},"Warrant of Capture inventory icon",[6],[],[],{"slug":8964,"name":1257,"path":1258,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8965,"excerpts":8966,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":167,"icon":8970,"categories":8972,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8973,"relations":8974},"weathered-note","The last thoughts of a desperate man. The couple has fled forced blood collection and is sheltering in an abandoned forest shack. The writer hears distant hounds and fears the search will catch up with them.",[8967],{"title":8968,"text":8969},"A Weathered Note","They won’t take our blood. Not anymore. We ran and hid in the forest, found an abandoned shack. Risked a small fire to dry ourselves, and cook something to eat. Cetina’s asleep now, the fire brightening her tired face. Despite all we've been through, she’s…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8971},"Weathered Note inventory icon",[6],[],[8975],{"kind":31,"name":6762,"path":6763},{"slug":8977,"name":5789,"path":5790,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8978,"excerpts":8979,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":84,"buyValue":842,"sellValue":22,"icon":8982,"categories":8984,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":8985,"relations":8986},"where-we-belong","Xanthe's bizarre ramblings. The writer is no longer certain whether the sought destination is a place or a state of existence. The repeated attempts and personal desperation give context to Path to Her Salvation’s experiment.",[8980],{"title":5789,"text":8981},"To think it might be folly, which I am guilty of. I've been trying for centuries, with one idea after another, one decade after the next. All in vain. All leading nowhere. I used to think it was a place: somewhere beyond the Earth, surrounding us like a…",{"src":4889,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8983},"Where We Belong inventory icon",[6],[],[8987,8989],{"kind":31,"name":8988,"path":5777},"The related experiment",{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":8991,"name":8992,"path":5063,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":8993,"excerpts":8994,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":472,"sellValue":824,"icon":8997,"categories":9000,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":9001,"relations":9002},"wisdom-of-the-mire","Wisdom of the Mire","The ink is smeared, the pages tattered. A displaced farmer trades blood for a swamp-dweller’s knowledge, replaces the lord who evicted him and then pays the continuing price with other people’s blood. The story turns personal liberation into another system of exploitation. The Covenant’s Pride chapter supplies a different justification for submission to blood-taking rulers.",[8995],{"title":8992,"text":8996},"They say he lived in a burrow in the swamp. The kind ones likened him to a lizard, others to a maggot or frog. They said his hair was covered in moss and his clothes rotten, yet none had seen him with their own eyes. He came out only on the darkest,…",{"src":8998,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":8999},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBY3.webp","Wisdom of the Mire inventory icon",[6],[],[9003,9005],{"kind":31,"name":9004,"path":299},"Blood tribute justified through doctrine",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":9007,"name":9008,"path":9009,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":9010,"excerpts":9011,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":1075,"sellValue":48,"icon":9014,"categories":9017,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":9018,"relations":9019},"wise-sayings","Wise Sayings","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#wise-sayings","The words of sages. These coarse proverbs strip status and appearances of their dignity: king and beggar share bodily needs, and outward improvement does not change a rat’s nature. Their irreverence contrasts with On Ruling a Realm’s solemn defence of ordained social ranks.",[9012],{"title":9008,"text":9013},"Better a goat on the roof than a priest in the cellar. A fart in the church is worth two in the tavern. Don’t trust a cow with dry teats or a nun with red cheeks. He that kisses the sow’s arse must smell the sty. The king shits as the beggar does. A rat with…",{"src":9015,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":9016},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBB16.webp","Wise Sayings inventory icon",[6],[],[9020,9022],{"kind":31,"name":9021,"path":2319},"The formal defence of social hierarchy",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":9024,"name":9025,"path":9026,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":9027,"excerpts":9028,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":143,"buyValue":65,"sellValue":824,"icon":9031,"categories":9034,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":9035,"relations":9036},"wound-care-manual","Wound Care Manual","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#wound-care-manual","Splattered with blood and well-used. Aldo the Barber’s manual combines cleaning and binding wounds with humoral remedies, cautery and religious last rites. It shows the mixture of practical craft and belief in local medicine. A Physician’s Journal applies another practitioner’s assumptions to a child’s strange experience.",[9029],{"title":9025,"text":9030},"By the hand of Aldo the Barber Wash the wound with hot wine or vinegar. If none is at hand, fresh urine of a sober man will suffice. Do not let the wound close until all the filth's out. Bind the wound tight with linen or shirt hem. If the blood keeps…",{"src":9032,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":9033},"items\u002FT_ITM_Readable_LBBL5.webp","Wound Care Manual inventory icon",[6],[],[9037,9039],{"kind":31,"name":9038,"path":227},"Another practitioner’s diagnosis",{"kind":35,"name":36,"path":37},{"slug":9041,"name":2087,"path":2088,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":9042,"excerpts":9043,"rarity":183,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":18,"buyValue":18,"sellValue":18,"icon":9047,"categories":9049,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":9050,"relations":9051},"xanthes-instructions","Details the boyaress's activities. Xanthe directs her followers to ancient sites beneath rubble and peat, valuing their buried relics above Sangora’s silver. She orders armed excavation teams to bring the discoveries back. Armaya’s Demand and Requisition Letters supply the practical arrangements for digging and transporting those objects.",[9044],{"title":9045,"text":9046},"Xanthe's Orders","Knyaz Skender thought Vale Sangora's treasure was the silver veins snaking their ways underneath the mountains. But there are far greater riches to be found here – crumbling memories of a distant past. I hear the murmurs reaching me from underneath the…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":9048},"Xanthe's Instructions inventory icon",[6],[],[9052,9053,9054,9055],{"kind":31,"name":2073,"path":2074},{"kind":31,"name":445,"path":446},{"kind":31,"name":665,"path":666},{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":9057,"name":9058,"path":9059,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":9060,"excerpts":9061,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":106,"sellValue":273,"icon":9064,"categories":9066,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":9067,"relations":9068},"xanthes-note","Xanthe's Note","\u002Fitems\u002Fbooks-and-notes#xanthes-note","Xanthe's note to Brencis. Xanthe says she has secured the area and blocked accidental passage, then asks Brencis to honour their agreement. Read it with his ritual-site orders for the shared concern with controlling access.",[9062],{"title":9058,"text":9063},"Brencis, Per your request, the area is secured and any accidental passage will be prevented. I expect you to keep your part of the deal now and turn a blind eye.",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":9065},"Xanthe's Note inventory icon",[6],[],[9069,9071,9072],{"kind":31,"name":9070,"path":1391},"Brencis’s ritual-site orders",{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":9074,"name":9045,"path":340,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":9075,"excerpts":9076,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":165,"buyValue":218,"sellValue":273,"icon":9079,"categories":9081,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":9082,"relations":9083},"xanthes-orders","The Boyaress's instructions to her Blood Guards. Xanthe orders the Blood Guard to protect excavation workers and conceal the search for old knowledge. Read it with Riquin’s Report about Excavations for an example of that secrecy being enforced against another soldier, and with Accident Report for a relic-related incident at a dig.",[9077],{"title":9045,"text":9078},"To all captains of the Blood Guard, The earth is old and keeps many secrets. We will pry them all, one by one, until all lost knowledge is retrieved. Those who undertake this work are to be protected at all costs and offered assistance when requested.…",{"src":933,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":9080},"Xanthe's Orders inventory icon",[6],[],[9084,9085,9086],{"kind":31,"name":6108,"path":343},{"kind":31,"name":325,"path":326},{"kind":31,"name":362,"path":363},{"slug":9088,"name":2768,"path":2769,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":9089,"excerpts":9090,"rarity":18,"material":104,"singleUse":18,"weight":105,"buyValue":166,"sellValue":107,"icon":9093,"categories":9095,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":9096,"relations":9097},"yaromils-contract","Signed by one Yaromil and Knyaz Brencis. Brencis promises to turn Yaromil, the Greifberg houndmaster, into a vrakhir within a fortnight of his killing Coen. The contract specifies placing a tooth in Yaromil’s heart for the transformation. Gisko’s separate contract offers help for Osterhild instead, showing the different rewards used to recruit the hunters.",[9091],{"title":2768,"text":9092},"This contract was agreed upon by Knyaz Brencis, the sole and rightful ruler of Vale Sangora, and Yaromil of Parlita, the Houndmaster at Greifberg Castle, in Anno Domini 1349, in the presence of witnesses signed below, and stipulates what follows: Yaromil of…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":9094},"Yaromil's Contract inventory icon",[6],[],[9098,9099,9100],{"kind":31,"name":1940,"path":1941},{"kind":31,"name":155,"path":156},{"kind":31,"name":1013,"path":1014},{"slug":9102,"name":2000,"path":2001,"detail":12,"indexable":13,"mergedHere":12,"answered":12,"description":9103,"excerpts":9104,"rarity":18,"material":19,"singleUse":18,"weight":47,"buyValue":472,"sellValue":824,"icon":9107,"categories":9109,"consumableForm":18,"consumableEffects":9110,"relations":9111},"yokel-utopia","A bit judgemental, but still makes for an interesting read. The author compares the Eternal Pass with Cockaigne and other lands of plenty, treating it as folklore. Dalyan's Tale presents the opposite perspective: a shepherd who says he returned from that paradise but cannot find it again.",[9105],{"title":2000,"text":9106},"Peasants, as is widely known, are as naive as little children and will believe in the most absurd tales. 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The priest refuses the blood mass and enters the mire expecting to die, asking the finder to pray for him. His note adds a human story to the swamp encounters described in the wisp guide.",[9134],{"title":9130,"text":9135},"The Devil has won. People have given their souls freely unto him, with not even a peep from most. They bleed and drink the cursed vrakhir ichor in surrender. I shan’t ever befoul myself this way. If death is my only escape, then so be it. I shall venture…",{"src":109,"width":25,"height":25,"alt":9137},"Young Priest's Note inventory icon",[6],[],[9141],{"kind":31,"name":5276,"path":5277},"25129649","2026-09-07",1791519386746]