Contemplate False Globes

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From: Ambiguous Cartography


The Treachery of Maps has not spared the Presbyterate. But in error one can find the turning point from truth's byway.

Unlocked with Lead: Cartography 620-623

Locked with Librarian's Progress 200


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 177

  • 121 - very chancy (41%)
  • 151 - chancy (51%)
  • 180 - modest (61%)
  • 210 - very modest (71%)
  • 239 - low-risk (81%)
  • 269 - straightforward (91%)
  • 295 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Trackless

Description summary:
The description varies based on your level of Lead: Cartography.

Lead: CartographyDescription
620A monk of the Fourth City sought to chart the Elder Continent, and reports his findings to the Pope in this slim, verdrigris volume. The sad, squashed drawings tell their own story, though the Pope's acidic encyclical forms an epilogue all its own.
621Circumventing the Presbyter's will, a Great House of Vesture produced its own map[…]. The Motherlings brought it to the Fourth City[…] a copy[…] resides in your library. Unfortunately,[…] the map was[…] concerned only with that which might concern a spider.
622The Hidden Nation of Ossuary makes its maps of scrimshaw and ivory. It conceals them in psalters and breviaries, dedicated to the holy light of the Mountain. Within the bindings, you make out the borders of the Presbyterate, carved in pale bone.
623[…]to police a continent one requires a knowledge of its boundaries. A record[…]by an enterprising Third City radical who resented the monopoly on death, reveals an overlap between the Presbyterate of then and that of now[…]but not an entirely continuous one.

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Failure

Broken maps

The Neath, of course, is flat. And maps are forbidden […] Accurate representations are valuable contraband, […] these are neither. They are diplomatic gifts from the Presbyter, designed to inflate the reach of his arm, and obscure the extent of his realm.

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