The Velan Codex

Location

The Drowned Steps

Still Age shrine half under the river

Idea, not yet confirmed

Look

Stone stairs descending into clear water; glyphs on the lower steps visible through the surface

From Story Bible › Key Locations

Concept art

Drowned Steps A
Drowned Steps A
Drowned Steps A
Drowned Steps A
Drowned Steps B
Drowned Steps B
Drowned Steps Overworld A
Drowned Steps Overworld A

Elsewhere in the Codex

Stage
6
Where
The Drowned Steps
What plays
The fragment: Prologue_Steps_Lesson, then _Done.
Sets
spell.learned.coil, stage 7

From Walkthrough: Prologue and Act 1 › Prologue: The Door-Mark (as built) › Stage table

Location
drowned_steps (The Drowned Steps)
Scene
DrownedSteps
Camera
town
Spawns
Spawn_from_overworld
Exits
Exit_to_overworld
Markers and entries
Event_fragment (interactable), Mark_aske_lesson, the lesson camera.

From Walkthrough: Prologue and Act 1 › Prologue: The Door-Mark (as built) › Locations

Rough layout. Sallowbank: the farmhouse and its yard on the west bank by the farm lane, the square in the upper middle, the ferry landing and Aske's barn on the river, the road out toward the overworld. The overworld: a river road along the Sallow, Sallowbank at one end and the Drowned Steps' turning further on. The Drowned Steps: a riverbank landing with stairs into clear water and the fragment on the lowest dry step.

From Walkthrough: Prologue and Act 1 › Prologue: The Door-Mark (as built) › Locations

Region
1. The Sallow
Site id
steps_lip
Where
The Drowned Steps, under the water ("light on the water at the Drowned Steps")
Near a town
yes (Sallowbank)

From Side Quests › Recurring world activities › Warp-born glyph hunts

Encounter id
sallow_wyrm
Enemies
sallow_wyrm
Where
The Drowned Steps (scene 5.3)
Act
Act 1
Difficulty
5.0
XP
120

From Bestiary › Regions and encounters › The Sallow (Sallowbank, the Drowned Steps, the Sallow Road, Sallow Fen, Halfway) **(Idea: Sallow Fen)**

Drops: wyrm_plate (a key item, granted once: a mirror plate that shows a different sky; Sister Orla, the Tender healer at Halfway, says it's still wet, and in Act 1 Harl can set it into a still_water_locket for 25 copper), still_water x3. The Drowned Steps' lower glyphs can be seen again once the water calms (a hook for a later fragment).

From Bestiary › Bosses › The Sallow Wyrm — `sallow_wyrm` (boss)

Id
fragment_coil
Name
Coil Fragment
Flavour
A step-stone from the Drowned Steps, the vine's path cut into it under the water.
Effect
Trace to learn Coil (whole glyph)
Found or sold
The Drowned Steps, end of the Prologue
Price
Not sold
Icon brief
a flat wet river stone with a glowing violet S glyph and its mirror carved into it

From Items and Economy › Starting catalogue › Key items (11)