The Disowned Leaf

Sit here on the boardwalk, $N, and let the tide go all the way out before I begin. Before the Book was bound, this leaf was the Binders' own register of the disowned: every name struck from a family line so no one could trace a scandal back to its root. They cut the whole leaf away rather than leave one disowned name floating loose in the margins, and let the Ink Tide carry it east. It ran aground as this delta, and the disowned did not simply vanish: they became the roots, and at low tide you can still see their names trying to spell themselves in the mud, one letter at a time, never quite finishing, because a name struck out can never fully come back. The lantern-lights you see drifting after dark are the disowned themselves, still walking the channels, looking for anyone willing to read a name whole. The Glossator spent a season matching root-shapes to old lineage records, and swore they had nearly reconstructed one complete name at the Unnamed Root before they sailed on. Go there and read what they left carved.

Experience

19500

Currency reward

1g 53s 0c

Repeatable

No

Sigil

Root and harvest