ITEMS · THE VALE

A Held Breath

A clouded bead of pale salt-glass from the cold country near the Karth — cast, the tellings say, over a Stillwater monk who sat down to still his breath and never started it again. It steadies the hands and the heart of whoever holds it.

Somewhere on the road to the tarn a Stillwater monk sat down to still his breath and simply never started it again, and the cold and mineral-thick water did what it does out there: crept over him slow and left, when the ice was chipped away years later, only this — a clouded bead of salt-glass, cool and weighing like calm, holding nothing of him but the shape of the stillness he chose. It is not haunted; his ending was his own, finished exactly as he meant it, and nothing lingers that wasn't asked to. Carry it and the body's noise quiets a little in sympathy: the hands don't shake, the heart doesn't race, fear finds less to grip. The Order calls it the empty hand made small enough to pocket — and says, gently, that carrying it is not the same as sitting down yourself.

KIND

relic

RARITY

rare

FOUND AT

Karth Bridge

ITEM TYPE

trinket

Connected

Karth BridgePLACE · A rare echo-trinket: a Stillwater monk's perfectly s…The UnclosedCONCEPT · An everyday crystallized echo — the substance's ordi…The Gaunt LedgerFACTION · The kind of everyday echo the Gaunt Ledger moves by …

In-Game Render

The real files this entity resolves to in-game (ItemModels / IconKit / EnemyRig), read live — not a copy.

no static preview

shape — pouchno pack mesh fits — renders as the procedural ClutterKit 'pouch' shape (see the Item bench)

icon — shape__pouch.pngbaked from the ClutterKit shape

Game Data (1)

Read live off disk from data/content/*.json — the game data itself, not a copy.

data/content/items.json

idheld_breath

nameA Held Breath

typemisc

rarityrare

value500

weight0.1

canon_refitem.a-held-breath

triggerwhile_worn

worn{"fortify_willpower":6}

loreA clouded bead of pale salt-glass from the cold country near the Karth — cast, the tellings say, over a Stillwater monk who sat down to still his breath and never started it again. It steadies the hands and the heart of whoever holds it.

quoteHe sat down to still his breath. He never started it again.

Type Fields

kindrelic

rarityrare

found_atplace.karth-bridge

item_typetrinket

enchantmentMinor passive: reduces fear and steadies aim/casting (less sway, less panic) while carried.

All Relationships (3)

hidden_in

→Karth Bridge — A rare echo-trinket: a Stillwater monk's perfectly stilled breath, caught by the cold, found here.

references

→The Unclosed — An everyday crystallized echo — the substance's ordinary, tradeable face.
←The Gaunt Ledger — The kind of everyday echo the Gaunt Ledger moves by the dozen — the rare tier's bread-and-butter trade.

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