The Sealed Leaf

Sit here in the shade of the chained gate, $N, and I will tell you why every door on this crag is locked from the outside. Before the Book was bound, this leaf argued that the first kings were smaller men than their crowns pretended, ordinary and frightened and no more chosen than anyone else. The Binders judged that burning such a leaf would only make it a martyr's relic, remembered exactly because it was destroyed, so instead they built this citadel around it, tier upon tier of sealed libraries, and chained every door rather than let the argument simply vanish. Scribes were set to guard each sealed copy, and when their watch never ended, the citadel simply sealed them in with their work; you can still hear them shelving pages that no one will ever read. The Glossator broke one seal at the highest archive and read enough of the leaf to be certain the argument was never dangerous, only inconvenient, and left their reading marked in the Sealed Archive before the Last Censor drove them back down the tiers. Go up to the Sealed Archive and read what they marked there.

Experience

19500

Currency reward

1g 53s 0c

Repeatable

No

Sigil

Root and harvest