Chapter V

The Furnace

Water would not still it. Fire would not empty it. The workers sealed their kilns and fled to the keep.

The inscription

Water would not still it. Fire would not empty it. The workers sealed their kilns and fled to the keep.

We gave the machines one last order: let no one follow.

The final work docket

Where to read it

  • The Buried ReservoirA desert headworks monument above a two-tank underground gallery.
  • The Ashen FoundryA sprawling furnace yard with three chimneys, a supported gantry and guarded workshops.
  • Mossbound AqueductFive vaulted arches carry a dry watercourse and an upper inspection walk.
  • Roadkeeper InfirmaryAn L-shaped hospice with separate wards, herb walks and a quiet bell cupola.
  • Ember WatchA red-sandstone watch fort with copper lantern crenels and a furnace in its guardhouse.

Keep your discoveries

Use the Surveyor's Lens directly on Inscribed Stone or a Relic Plinth to copy a chapter. You can read it again in your Field Journal. Discoveries belong to your player and survive death.

The chapters may be found in any order. The history leaves Enna's fate and the vessel's origin unresolved.

IV · The GardenVI · The Last Light