Shell Game of Souls

A hanged man's runes, teaching the dying art of wearing other souls as a shield.

Category: Minor

At the bottom of a sinkhole opens a limestone cave where a moldering skeleton slumps against the wall, bearing the marks of a hanging. Carved into the stone around it are runes — kin to The Stone Lords' script — caked over with mineral deposits, holding a death-binding secret. Restore and decipher them without ruining the work, and you can learn to lash a dying soul to your own flesh, hoarding the dead against the day the Last Door opens for you.

To unlock it

you must carefully restore the runes over a few weeks of work.
you risk ruining them as you work.
you must decipher the old writings, which are similar to Stone Lord runes.
it will then take a few days of study.

Unlocked power