Nacre Vault — Pearl Wyrm Guardians Character Sheet

The story of Nacre Vault

A fictional story inspired by the artwork.

Every key in the Nacre Vault is longer than a person’s arm. A dragon can carry one comfortably in the curve of its tail, but a visitor needs both hands just to raise the bow. This is why the keepers meet strangers at the foot of the stairs instead of sending them down alone.

A young cabinetmaker arrives with a drawing of a lock from her late mother’s desk. She has measured every notch and made six keys already. Each has turned halfway and stopped. The oldest wyrm takes the drawing close to a violet flame, and a second set of lines shows through the thin paper.

On the reverse her mother had sketched a small brass spring. The cabinetmaker goes home with the drawing and an empty satchel. She opens the desk that evening by pressing the lid gently while turning her own first key. Inside she finds the little plane she learned to use as a child.

The six guardians coil around their keys in different shapes, from tight loops to loose spirals. Pale scales pick up the violet light along each curve. At the next visit the cabinetmaker brings the wyrms a gift that fits in the smallest claw, a working wooden model of the desk with a spring under its lid.

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