The Ragged Leaf
es_deckle_cay_sagaThe Ragged Leaf
Quest · Level 8
This whole ring is a leaf, $N, cut from the Book before it was ever Bound. Look at the rim: that ragged, feathered edge is a deckle edge, the same untrimmed border every sheet I press is born with. Something tore this page free long before I had vats to press anything, and the Ink Tide carried it east until it grounded and grew a lagoon inside the tear. I did not work that out myself. A stranger came through years back, wrote in a hand smaller than a fly's footprint, and left a note carved into a shell out on the Selvage before sailing on. Called themselves the Glossator. I have pressed a thousand sheets since and never made sense of what they scratched there. Go and read it for me.
- Experience
- 880
- Currency reward
- 4s 30c
- Repeatable
- No
- Sigil
- Root and harvest
Completion
So that is what a margin-note looks like scratched into nacre instead of inked onto a page. It says nothing I can press into a sheet, $N, but I know now the Glossator was here, and that they sailed on to Catchword Cay, further up this same shelf of near folios. Take the ferry there and keep reading what they left. I will keep pressing paper and wondering what leaf I am living on.
Objectives
The Glossator's Shell read × 1

