Foundryman's Observation

Foundryman's Observation is an Artifact in the set Heart of the Furnace.

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He had once heard rumors of a silver-haired young woman who appeared behind the palace curtains. Such stories were often exchanged beside the hearth.
The young Domovoy first believed she was nothing more than an orphan the Tsar had raised within the palace.
To him, she was a symbol of the Sovereign of the Pale Stars' mercy, displayed for the humans who knelt beneath the wind and snow.
After joining the research institute known as Hvergelmir, he quickly realized how terribly mistaken he had been.

Later, deep within the palace where white birches would come to grow, those who pursued forbidden knowledge salvaged relics from the world of shadows.
They dismantled and studied every remnant of the golden age. They searched for every path. They sought every possibility that might yet save the world.
Time and again, the young Domovoy would scarcely voice an idea before the silver-haired scholar responded.
It was as though she had been waiting for him to speak. Before he could fully develop his thoughts, she had already prepared the guidance he needed. She praised gifts he had yet to discover within himself.
She soothed his unease. She even understood the duty that compelled him to report everything to the Domovoy Grand Duke.
When he first accompanied her into the world of shadows, he felt none of the excitement he had once known upon entering the heart of the furnace.
That world lay beyond all reason. It nearly drove him to despair. Yet on that very day, she placed a pen in his hand.

In that moment, every peaceful future he had once imagined for himself as a Domovoy slipped beyond his reach.
He buried his fear beneath fervor. He became like a train racing headlong into an unknown land.
He added his own stroke to the birth of the twisted painting.
He drafted a small corner of the blueprint for the world within the egg.
He dreamed the dreams of others within his own sleep. He drank deeply from the bitter sea, as though entranced.

Yet on the eve of the dream's completion, before the vision born from nothingness could finally take shape, the sovereign of ice and snow fell amid a tide that swept away all things.
With that, the research lost its purpose.
A new monarch turned her cold gaze upon every corner of the frozen land.
Those who had trespassed upon forbidden knowledge had lost their protector. It was impossible that they should receive her mercy.

He should have sought another path for the silver-haired girl.
Instead, the only news that reached him was the strange report of her death within the world of shadows...

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