Glossary

The sarcophagus's funerary text has a third reading—one that renders a cluster of glyph-roots as 'the hidden name': he who is concealed behind the door, not to be named, not to be summoned. The mainstream dismisses it as far-fetched, because one of the roots doesn't match.

When an artifact begins to be 'more than an artifact,' someone always comes to handle it. A man calling himself academy staff walks in through a door—and behind it is a long corridor that should not exist.

A rare few can 'hear' the residual echoes of antiquities—fragments of the consciousness of those who used them, sealed them, or died before them, clinging to the objects. The deeper you listen, the longer the mark remains.