# THE WORLD

Volume 91 | Chapter/Section Marker (22)

## Reidy’s Journal

An old journal with thick pages, overflowing with notes. Written by a young and brilliant scholar during his final days, this massive journal is a rich anthology of legends, folklore and historical accounts.

Once per rest, the group may start a new search among its pages or continue a previous one. The Game Master assigns a Clock to each piece of research (the more obscure the information, the bigger the clock, from 4 to 10 sections) and Player Characters attempt a Group Check with DL 10 to make any progress. Once a research Clock is full, the Game Master provides a useful, reliable, and precise answer to the original question.

## Resin Tear

A curved sword carved from gleaming amber.

Unable to even dent the armor of the ape-people of Iron Mountain, the warriors of Oradh Kingdom felled the Thunder Forest’s trees, from youngest to oldest, sparing none but the millennia-old yew tree near the waterfall. From its hardened resin, boiling with sorrow, an Oradhan warrior carved a blade that could command lightning (similar to an Elementalism Ritual, but costing no Mind Points). Wielding it, he exterminated the ape-people and conquered their forge, whose secrets were stolen and acted as foundation to Oradhan’s military tradition. Ever since that moment, the spirits and beasts of land and sky are at war with the Oradh. The name of that warrior was hidden, since his lineage is cursed.

## Seal of the Second Sun

A delicate cylindrical seal made of lapis lazuli.

The embossed inscription on this artifact recites, in high-imperial register: “In the hands of the Winter Queen, a path opens to the new Sun”. Discovered by a young explorer lost in the underground necropolis of Abarsa, this artifact caught the attention of scholars and collectors, some drawing connections to the female statues lining the perimeter of a stone tower in the southern archipelago, dating back to the imperial age and the second ice age. A group of adventurers is organizing an expedition to the tower but, despite their protests, they have been forbidden from taking the cylinder with them.

### [Sidebar Data / Transaction Record]