Quest · chapter 5

The Cold Vault

Something vast is asleep on the Frosthold stone. Magister Quill wants frost essence to learn what it is, and then it has to be woken.

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Warden Maera Thornwick
“The Frosthold stone has not gone dark. That is what frightens me. It burns as bright as ever, and gives no warmth at all.”
Warden Maera Thornwick
“Quill believes something is lying on it. Drinking the heat and leaving the light. He wants frost essence from the creatures up there, to be certain, and I have learned not to ask Quill what he does with things.”
Warden Maera Thornwick
“Climb to Frosthold. Feed the old man's curiosity. Then go into the Glacier Vault, and wake whatever has made its bed there.”

Warden Maera Thornwick
“Frost essence for Quill, and the thing in the Glacier Vault. Frostspire is far to the north, past Ironhold.”

Magister Orwin Quill
“A wyrm! An actual rime wyrm, asleep on a waystone for three centuries, and it SPOKE to you? Oh, I would have given my left... well. Never mind what.”
Magister Orwin Quill
“Listen, though. The essence you brought me is not cold. It is the absence of a very particular heat. Something is drawing fire out of the whole ring, toward the south. Toward the Emberlands. Tell Maera. I shall be under my desk.”
The Chronicle
“Five of seven. Meltwater runs off the Frostspire for the first time in living memory, and in Frosthold, they open the windows.”