Rune of Khaldun

Stub-class article · First seen: pre-campaign brief · Last seen: pre-campaign brief
Rune of Khaldun
the Rune of Khaldun · Khaldun maker's mark · the Khaldun rune · the Forgehold mark
Rune of Khaldun, Maker's mark portrait
Item
StatusActive
First seenpre-campaign brief
Last seenpre-campaign brief
TypeMaker's mark
HolderNot in the party's possession
OriginKhaldun Forgehold (world brief)

The Rune of Khaldun is the maker’s mark of weapons and armour from Khaldun Forgehold, the dwarven forge-city under the Emberpeak Mountains. The world brief says one thing about it: gear that bears the mark commands triple the price in any city above (world brief). It has not appeared in play. No piece carrying it has been seen, bought or sold, and nobody has said what the mark looks like.

Overview

The Rune of Khaldun is the maker’s mark on weapons and armour from Khaldun Forgehold, the forge-city that the Embermantle Clan rules and the Great Guilds of Khaldun run (world brief). The brief makes one claim about it, and that claim is commercial: gear bearing the mark commands triple the price in any city above (world brief).

The party has never handled a piece with the mark on it, and has not been to Khaldun.

Description

Everything known comes from the world brief’s list of Khaldun’s industry, which names three things: the Everflame Forges lining the city’s main halls, the mark, and the Runeworks, where runesmiths “whisper secrets of binding and warding into hot steel” to make enchanted weapons (world brief). The brief does not say what the rune looks like, where on a piece it is struck, or who may stamp it. It does not say whether the mark is magical, or whether the Runeworks’ enchanted pieces carry it.

Open questions

  • What the mark looks like, who may apply it, and whether it is more than a maker’s mark.
  • Whether any piece the party has met bears it. The only link to Khaldun in play is that the DM said Vasquez and Althea are “from Khaldun” [2], and that Vasquez put his adopted family’s crest on his looted plate [3][4]. Nothing says that crest is the Rune.

History in the campaign

Not yet seen in play.

Status

As of session 23. Not yet seen in play. No piece bearing the mark is in the party’s possession, and none is on the Party Inventory.

See also

References

  1. ^ : DM world brief only (03_campaign/factions.md, Khaldun Forgehold, Industry); not yet seen in any session.
  2. ^ Session 15, line 211: Inline citation.
  3. ^ Session 10, line 1722: Inline citation.
  4. ^ Session 10, line 1841: Inline citation.
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