A Pale Petroglyph
A bone-white slab of marble, with the faintest trace of prehistoric art.
Initial Location: Museum of Old Things
I’m Studying…
The pigment is albedic essence, an alchemical substance thought to only have been developed by European adepts in the late Renaissance, and even then only in certain Histories.
I’ve Studied…
The figures are discernible, but impossible. The author could not have known all those who perished in the First Worm War, yet their faces are here. This object belongs to a History where we are quiet, we remember, and we are nowhere. I feel I should chip off this paint, mix it into ink, and lament all those I have known and lost in my own elegiac History.
Effect: Regret
Mastery: Lesson: Sights & Sensations (x2)