The Choice
“Keep your name and remain within your Hold.”
KEEP YOUR NAME. Enter it into your Hold's permanent Record. Remain below Stonewake.
“Surrender your name and climb Stonewake for the chance to ascend.”
SURRENDER YOUR NAME. Receive a number. Climb.
Very few who climb return.
THE ASCENDED
SELECTED RECORDS · GREYWICK HOLD
NOEMI ALDER
First woman to climb. First woman to ascend.
Greywick · DARK 1 · YEAR 12 · FORMERLY CLIMBER № 11
The ability to sense when a path, decision, or place still holds a way forward.
TAVIAN HOLT
Belmere · DARK 47 · YEAR 63 · FORMERLY CLIMBER № 71
The ability to quiet motion within water for a limited radius.
NERIS VOSS
Greywick · DARK 103 · YEAR 28 · FORMERLY CLIMBER № 26
The ability to hear traces of sounds left in a place long after they were made.
ELIAS RENN
Briarfen · DARK 142 · YEAR 81 · FORMERLY CLIMBER № 89
The ability to temporarily bind broken nonliving material back together.
Filed under Greywick Hold — Dark / Year Records
THE DARKS
DARK 47 · YEAR 63
The sixty-third year of the forty-seventh Dark.
EVERY HUNDRED YEARS, THE SKY GOES DARK.
That darkness ends one Dark and begins the next.
DAY OF THE DARK
In the Holds' earliest records, this darkness was known only as the Day of the Dark — the event by which time itself was counted.
DARK 100 · YEAR 1
THE DARK TIDE
On the first day of the Hundredth Dark, Lowlanders discovered they could cross between Holds during the darkness. Thousands crossed — and thousands were unable to return before it ended.