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the Reliquary

Known facts

transported-between-settlementsWhenever a new Beaconite settlement is founded, a portion of the mist is decanted from the Reliquary of its parent into a containment device and carried with the new community. The current Reliquary on Beacon holds, in part, mist absorbed from Union together with an older containment unit from a smaller community Beacon took in.STD:TSM:Ch 22
fabricator-processFabrication takes raw stock and a schematic and yields a finished device. The customer feeds lumps of unrefined metal in through the open top, holds the schematic against the glass for the Chorus to read, and waits. Zeal gives an upper bound of about an hour for novel work, and notes that the Chorus is faster on jobs it has done before.STD:TSM:Ch 22
every-city-has-oneThe Reliquary is not unique to Beacon — Union also has one at its centre, where it keeps its own Chorus in the same way. Elegy names it casually when she and Zellion reach the central square, paired with the Hall of Burning across from it.STD:TSM:Ch 48

STD:TSM:Ch 22 Hosts the meeting: a great glass aquarium-drum at the centre of Beacon's hub ship, full of luminous mist and shifting smoke-faces, with a rack of depleted sunhearts on the far wall and a small overhead crane for lowering raw stock in.
STD:TSM:Ch 29 The hub on which the Dawnchaser is parked sits directly above the Reliquary, which is now packed with evacuees pressed in around the shades' cage for the climb.
STD:TSM:Ch 48 Union's own Reliquary sits at the centre of the city paired with the Hall of Burning; the two buildings frame the open square where the Cinder King is waiting.

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