Wordhunter's Hearth

Wordhunter's Hearth is a Locked Room, and can therefore be considered a spoiler. It is a settlement in The Stormlands.

Description
''A word: A series of marks on paper. A particular vibration in the air. A shared cultural understanding. And on the Edge, where reality wears thin, words are prey.''

Wordhunters' Hearth: A crude wood-and-thatch roundhouse, slender horses tethered outside, boisterous voices shouting and laughing within.

''A black-letter word is impaled by the door, perhaps in boast, perhaps in warning. It's dead, its meaning lost.''

Rest and recover.
Requires: Sanity damage

''You've spent a long time in darkness. Your crew need a few days to blow off steam.''

-1 Sack of Salt

+Sanity

Gather news.
Requires: 0 Current Affairs: Wordhunters' Hearth

''The Wordhunters are unfazed by offers of money. They want alcohol, which is in short supply down here.''

-1 Fargyle Whiskey, -1 Angelwine, or -1 Blinding Hooch

+1 Current Affairs: Wordhunters' Hearth

Enter the Hearth.
Once per visit

Pulling aside the leather flap that serves as a door, you are greeted by the stench of horse dung and unwashed armpit.

+1 Disquieting Incident

Warn the Wordhunters about the approaching storm.
Requires: Oncoming Storm 1, have not run out of time.

+1 Etymological Collection

+1 Disquieting Incident

You were too late.
Requires: Oncoming Storm 1, ran out of time

+1 Disquieting Incident

The Trophy Room
''A gap-toothed old man shows you the words he's killed. He offers you one in exchange for some of what you've learned.''