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Physical Evidence and Symbols
This page collects tangible evidence, visual symbols, suspicious objects, altered bodies, and environmental clues. Passwords and readable inscriptions live on Known Passwords and Inscriptions.
Early Everchard and Barrier Evidence
| Evidence |
Clue Content |
Source |
| Missing pigs, sheep, rats, militia, and altered memories |
The pattern led from Everchard disappearances toward memory tampering, Carnomancy, worms, Garadule, and the Barrier attack. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-01.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-04.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-05.md |
| Changing key count |
The number of keys shifting in memory was one of the earliest signs that recollection itself was being altered. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-01.md |
| Altered Malcolm Donovan |
Malcolm’s altered state and later imprisonment helped expose manipulation around Everchard authority. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-01.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-04.md |
Missing T astronomy books and star diagrams |
Recent star diagrams and missing astronomy books pointed to Tri-moon research in the Barrier Observatory. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-05.md |
| Joy’s vase, Mr Snuffles, rings, cloak, handkerchief, and dagger |
Personal objects in the observatory connected Joy, Ennui, bargains, invisibility or disappearance, and unresolved family clues. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-05.md |
| Acidic bleeding runes |
Airwise runes copied from the observatory later bled acidic blood and seemed different. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-06.md |
Bodies, Alterations, and Creature Evidence
| Evidence |
Clue Content |
Source |
| Memory worms / maggots |
The worms were the source of Everchard memory alteration; killing them restored memories. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-05.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-06.md |
| Disfigured halfling bodies |
Seaward victims were magically disfigured, with intestinal divination and right-way-up faces on upside-down bodies. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-12.md |
| Skull-buying scheme |
The goblin scam, Iakaxi’s unnamed master, and the request for clever people’s skulls suggest a body-part or knowledge-harvesting operation. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-11.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-12.md |
| Goldenswell memory grubs |
Memory grubs erased council memory of The Guilt, caused distrust, and created a watched feeling. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-34.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-35.md |
| Elven husks |
The rescued elven husks are physical evidence of Envy/Noxia-linked alteration, recovery risk, and possible vessel use. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-60.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-62.md |
| No-Hurt mushroom |
No-Hurt is free and still a potential threat if spores reach eyes or tongue. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-58.md |
Objects, Artifacts, and Written Evidence
| Evidence |
Clue Content |
Source |
Repaired Core marked GUILT |
Core returned in the post under the label GUILT; sender and purpose are unresolved. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-09.md |
| Locked Aldaine Hartwell book |
The memoirs/learnings book requires powerful identity magic or a command word to open. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-16.md |
| Pact symbol of five hands |
The five-hand star sign identifies The Pact and the old wizard meeting place at the Newhaven pub. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-16.md |
| Drunken Duck thieves’ cant |
Upside-down thieves’ cant on a cart padlock resembled Dirk’s claw scratches; the party altered it to Everchard. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-20.md |
| White dragonscale |
A white dragonscale fell from the party room icicle after the cold Void dream. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-21.md |
| Hartwall auction lots |
The chariot, Valentinhide's Betrayal, Firefang, Browning’s scroll, Noxia holy symbol, shield ring, and talon of soot may point to the same ancient conflict. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-32.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-33.md |
| Serenity stone absence |
A Bluemeadows militia-like man lacked a serenity stone, a notable deviation. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-35.md |
| Grand Towers pennies and eye colours |
Bridged statue eye-glows changed with pennies; the destination and cost mapping remains unknown. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-36.md |
| Black snowflake tabards |
Black snowflakes appear in Grand Towers vision material and Coalmount Falls weather/scoop clues. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-36.md |
Symbols, Creature Marks, and Visual Motifs
| Evidence |
Clue Content |
Source |
| Wasp and scorpion symbols of Noxia |
Jellyfish guards carried crude wasp and scorpion symbols tied to Noxia. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-57.md |
| Stone Sages and replaced bowls |
Globule suspected Noxia’s Stone Sage servants replaced or petrified Hydran’s bowls. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-57.md |
| Trixus bracelet inscription |
Trixus’s bracelet was remembered as a blessing from Attabre, calling him protector of Salvation, first of his name, fifth of his kind. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-58.md |
| Anadreste trace absence |
Anadreste’s sacrifice should leave a trace in white dragons and descendants, but something removed her trace from a white dragon. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-58.md |
| Dwarven convoy invisibility materials |
Carved elven shield crystal and copper made convoy attackers invisible. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-54.md |
| Merikok smoke sphere / black smoke |
Smoke clues connect Merikok/Kokirem, Blakedurn, hopelessness, and fallen-manifestation questions. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-53.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-56.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-58.md |
Recent Road and Mountain Evidence
| Evidence |
Clue Content |
Source |
| Belburn town-hall rumbling |
Rumour says someone can hear Lady Evalina Hartwall’s buried dragon form by laying their head on the town-hall floor, though the party did not hear it. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-59.md |
| Armoured lizard wagon |
The wagon’s construction, direction, and timing point to tax collection, pursuit, military movement, or Noxia/wasp logistics. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-59.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-62.md |
| Noxia blood and ooze |
Found blood / recovered ooze links Lostvein, wasp frenzy, corrupted lands, and the remaining Noxia threat. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-60.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-61.md |
| Forge activity |
Road reports say the forges are running at the mountain site, suggesting weapons, construction, or Envy’s bridge/army plan. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-61.md, data/4-days-cleaned/day-62.md |
| Missing or diverted wagons |
Road traffic does not match expectations, raising the possibility that wagons are missing, delayed, diverted, or intercepted. |
data/4-days-cleaned/day-61.md |