sunheart recharge
The hoarded TimeTeller discovery that a spent sunheart can be refilled by priming it with a little body heat — or, for a corrupted cinderheart used to make a Charred, with some other Invested heat — and then letting Canticle's world-current of Investiture do the work as sunlight crosses the buried sphere. Nomad reasons it out by analogy with an incandescent bulb: a sunheart forms in the first place because a soul *resists* the current, like a filament, and the resistance is what captures the power. A used sunheart left out does nothing because it offers no resistance; prime it with a little heat to block the circuit, and the next sunrise refills it. The TimeTellers have known for months and have deliberately not told the locals. STD:TSM:Ch 45
Known facts
- zellion-publishes-it-to-beaconUnder the rising dome Zellion tells Contemplation the recharge trick out loud and instructs her to spread it everywhere she can — that priming a spent sunheart with a seed of body heat and leaving it in the next sun is enough to refill it, and that the TimeTellers had been sitting on this. *This changes everything*, she says. With Beacon holding the truth, the Cinder King's economy of human sacrifice now has a public secret at its core.STD:TSM:Ch 47
Backreferences
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 47
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 50
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 51
- summarySTD:TSM:Epilogue