Thaw Lantern

A Thaw Lantern is your light in the Stillness: in its circle everything flows again, and a Stillmetal Vein gives Freshet Ore. A brass lantern with a current shard burning in its cradle. While it burns, for eight blocks around water pours, fire burns out, hanging dust settles, stilled people finish their step: some crumble into rime, leaving a Still Memory, others walk on as Laggards. When the lantern goes out, the circle stills again.

A primal current shard burns for a minute, an Ember shard for two; the cradle holds up to four minutes. Use the lantern with an empty hand to see how long it will still burn. A Stillmetal Vein broken in its circle gives not grains but Freshet Ore: metal that began to flow again.

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