The Thorn Testimony
Independent listeners heard a child asking to go home inside the fortress cedar.
What happened
The listeners agreed on the request but not its speaker. One heard Avel’s childhood cadence, though she had never visited the chamber. Tavia barred cutting and invited outside witnesses, delaying a public verdict. The event is evidence of a memory, not proof of the historical interpretation each faction wants.
Where to look
The event is anchored at The Thorn Fortress. Related witnesses and institutions appear in the connections rather than being treated as a detached chronology.
Avel campaigns for the Thorn testimony to be heard outside the court.
A root-bound chamber at the heart of Alceria’s disputed history.
Iven treats a tree’s recollection as a witness that can misunderstand what it sensed.
Tavia opened the Thorn Fortress to witnesses after hearing the child’s memory herself.
Surveyors found warm water beneath old ice and collected the jar now examined in Garnetrun.
The tidekeeper ordered a precautionary evacuation before the next unscheduled opening upstream.