The Velan Codex

Location

The Hour Stair

Cliff monastery and archive

Idea, not yet confirmed

Connected

Sides & Factions

Keepers of the Hour

Time and the order of events

time and the order of events.

Concept art

Hour Stair A
Hour Stair A
Hour Stair B
Hour Stair B
Hour Stair Kit A
Hour Stair Kit A
Hour Stair Kit B
Hour Stair Kit B
Hour Stair A
Hour Stair A
Hour Stair B
Hour Stair B
Hour Stair Overworld A
Hour Stair Overworld A

Elsewhere in the Codex

Chapter
3. The Hour Stair
Where
The Hour Stair
Beat
Keeper Hale's sealed records: the truth of the Breaking, and the Sallow warp as the same pattern, small.
Set piece
The hour sentinel (Hale's trial)
Spells
Hasten, Linger; Toll (side)

From Walkthrough: Act 3 › The act at a glance

Mended
Bells in both halves of the city. The five factions argue over who the Mending belongs to, as they always have. The Wardens send patrols into the Shardfield to "keep it still".
Shattered
The mirrored city's reflections fall out of step with it: the river between the halves shows each half slightly wrong. The Wardens turn their courts into watch-houses against the glints. No court can seal a spell any more, and they know it.
Held
The Hour Stair records are read aloud in the Hall of Measure (if Tamsin stepped out) or leaked from it (if not). The Prelacy is challenged for the first time in living memory. Un-teaching continues, argued over in every court.

From Walkthrough: Act 4 › Chapter F: Epilogues › Epilogue cards

Deed
Return a stolen fragment to Hale
Quest
(walkthrough deed; the Hour Stair)
Where
The Hour Stair

From Side Quests › The Undermere › The Long Way Up (`long_way_up`)

Story: Something sings in the flooded nave at night and keeps the den awake. Two drowned choristers hum the Mere Hymn in unison over black water. The Hour Stair records say the Drowned Choir was the Mending's choir (walkthrough-act-3.md, scene 3.3), and the verse they keep singing is the Mending's last note, never finished. Once the choristers are beaten, the player chooses: silence them for good with Hush, or listen while they finish the verse and fade on their own. Either way, a page of the hymn is left on the water. It is what Tobin has been waiting forty years to hear about (his quest is on the Sallow).

From Side Quests › The Undermere › The Flooded Nave (`side_drowned_nave`)

Region
4. Hushfold and the Hour Stair
Site id
gorge_lip
Where
The Hour Stair gorge, below the archive window
Near a town
no

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

Encounter id
stair_owls
Enemies
2 echo_owl + 2 frost_glint
Where
The Hour Stair, lower flights
Act
Act 3
Difficulty
4.0
XP
80

From Bestiary › Regions and encounters › Hushfold and the Hour Stair (the Evane highlands)

Encounter id
hour_trial
Enemies
hour_sentinel
Where
The Hour Stair, the bell court (scene 3.2, after Keeper Hale teaches Hasten); the fight lasts one "hour", about 3 minutes
Act
Act 3
Difficulty
5.0
XP
110

From Bestiary › Regions and encounters › Hushfold and the Hour Stair (the Evane highlands)