Rogue letters

Rogue letters is a bundle of sealed letters. It is a lesser work, written in a Guild with the method of Tellan, the Keeper of Tallies. It holds no Seal-shard, it is Plain, and it is spent once its seals are broken.

Some lesser works attempt a theft, and this is one of them. Sent against a rival, the letters carry off a lesser work from that kingdom's stores. Chance decides which. They cannot take a relic. They cannot take a work that is not allowed to be carried off either, such as Wayfinder or Small reprieve.

The artisans say the letters bind no fire and no beast, only names that storekeepers trust. The Human lineages read them more darkly. In the Age of the Given Word, Flint D. Rook struck Ysme of Lumen where their alliance had shown him she was thin. The songs call these letters a small betrayal of the same kind: they open doors only because someone, once, let the bearer in.

They have no treasure spirit and no hunger. Their only cost is the ordinary one.

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