The Gloss Between
es_interlinear_mesas_sagaThe Gloss Between
Quest · Level 42
Interlinear, $N, means written between the lines: a gloss, a note squeezed into the margin because there was nowhere else left for it. This whole island is the Binders' own gloss on the Book, cut loose and sent east because it kept trying to comment on pages the Book had already finished saying. I have spent years reading the strata like text, band by band, mesa by mesa, and I still cannot tell you what it is glossing. Out past Redstrike, in the narrowest slot on the whole island, hardly wide enough to walk, someone left their own note wedged into the rock, signed only as the Glossator. Walk out to that gloss between the mesas and read what they made of it.
- Experience
- 8900
- Currency reward
- 46s 50c
- Repeatable
- No
- Sigil
- Star and rift
Completion
So the Glossator read this island as a margin note too, and left their OWN note squeezed into the narrowest gap they could find, $N. A gloss on a gloss. I do not know if that is scholarship or a joke at my expense, but I will take either. They went on from here to Marginalia, further along this reach of marginal isles. Take the ferry there and keep reading. I have a great many more bands left to lay against each other.
Objectives
The Glossator's Annotation read × 1

