ITEMS · THE SOUTHERN FLATS
Saltglass Instrument Shard
aka Saltglass Resonator Shard
A fused crystal of salt and Imperium tuning-glass from the Saltglass Vault's apse — it still rings a true note when struck near the apse's old seal-instruments, and studying it teaches something real about the tolerances the empire's engineers cut their bronze to.
The brine that flooded the Vault's fault-line during the Drawing-Down dried over centuries around a shard of the apse's tuning-glass, fusing Imperium instrument-glass and natural salt into something neither was before. Struck near one of the vault's surviving seal-instruments, it rings back at the same true pitch — plain metallurgy, the kind of sympathetic ring any two pieces cast to the same exact tolerance will give each other, nothing more mystical than a well-made bell answering its twin. The Listening College calls it evidence of Imperium precision-casting; the Unsealing calls it a key to the apse mechanism. Both are right, which is the problem.
KIND
relic
RARITY
rare
FOUND AT
The Saltglass Vault
ITEM TYPE
trinket
Connected
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Type Fields
All Relationships (3)
hidden_in
- →The Saltglass Vault — The saltglass instrument shard is found in the vault's salt-glass apse.
references
- →The Unclosed — The shard's true ring is ordinary sympathetic vibration, cast bronze answering cast bronze — nothing like the cosmic claim the Unsealing make about it and the vault's Unclosed dead.
- →Relic-Reading — The shard is a partial Relic-Reading teaching piece — studying it teaches something real about the tolerances the empire's engineers cut their bronze to.
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