The Reckoners
Read a book with the Loupe, and the Codex will recognize the hand of those who wrote before you.
How to open it
- Read with the Loupe: Book or Book and Quill or Written Book or Enchanted Book
- Notes: Basics — 4
- After the entries:
Murk and Mire
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The Reckoners left you most of what is worth seeking in the world: Gauge Stones that speed the flux, locks and archives with hoards, Records that bring knowledge. They were an ancient order, the first to measure the currents of the world: they wanted to reckon every current and know in advance where any drop would flow. They left behind stones, locks, weirs on old beds and scraps of notes — not unlike this notebook.
Part of the order, the Order of the Still Hour, decided that perfection lies in rest: a stopped current does not spoil. They performed the Great Stilling — and part of the world froze entirely. That is how the Stillness came to be, where waterfalls stand like glass and sparks hang in the air.
The flux that had nowhere left to flow stagnated. Since then, there has been murk in the world. You are heir to both: to those who measured and to those who stopped.
After the Stilling the order split. The Still went into the Stillness to guard their rest. The weir keepers stayed by the weirs and became the Sunken — those who feed the mire. And the lock wardens, who took a share of every current, never stopped taking it: they are called the Tollkeepers.