Location
The Heart Pane (`heart_pane`)
- Scene:
HeartPane. Camera:townstyle for the rim, with a wider overlook for cutscenes. - What it is: the last unbroken piece of the Mere, at the centre of the Shardfield. A flat mirror a few hundred metres across, sky above and below (Story Bible section 6).
- Spawns:
Spawn_rim_south(from the inner ring),Spawn_rim_underside(from the Undercrack),Spawn_pane_dawn(scene 4.12). - Exits:
Exit_inner_ring(south-west, back to the Shardfield);Exit_undercrack(south, the Undercrack, once found). - Markers:
Event_aske_fire,Mark_chorus_circle,Mark_ondine_tent,Event_rehearsal_crack,Mark_lantern_line,Mark_cut_line,Mark_lio,Mark_caravans,Event_first_pair,Mark_choice,Mark_heart. CamerasCam_rim_overlook,Cam_pane_dawn,Cam_choice. - Landmarks: the chorus circle's four standing stones (west); the lantern line and the cut line (east); Aske's fire (south); the Waymaker wagons (north); the two hairline cracks running in towards the centre.
- States: day (stage 2), night (stage 3), dawn (stage 4), day again from sunrise (stage 5 on); after the act, one state per outcome (stilled, shattered into a ring of standing pieces, cracked and held).
- Rough layout:
N Waymaker wagons (Mark_caravans)
.-----------------------------.
Evane camp / \ Facet camp
chorus circle | ~ ~ ~ THE HEART PANE ~ ~ ~ | lantern line
Ondine's tent | crack ----> (Mark_heart) <--- | cut line, Lio
(west rim) \ mirror, sky below / (east rim)
'-----------------------------'
Exit_inner_ring S Aske's fire (Event_aske_fire)
Spawn_rim_south / Undercrack
The player can walk on the Pane itself everywhere inside the rim. The rim is a ring path about 2 m wide where the camps stand on stone and shard.
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