The ServatoryThe ServatoryThat Those Who Cross May Cross Knowing
The Servatory seal

Most who cross return. This is for the rest.

What waits beyond a veil should be known before it is reached.

The Servatory finds what lies past the veils, rates how safely it may be approached, and keeps the account, so that those who cross after may cross knowing. The wonders, and the things you are warned from, set down plainly.

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A finding from the survey

The Lantern Shoals
The Lantern Shoals
TOE.VRD.002271VRD · Creature

The Lantern Shoals

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Hazard · 1 of 5
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Freely approached.

Small hand-sized creatures gather nightly in the warm shallow sea of a water world, lighting the shallows in unexplained, harmless waves of color that crossers may safely wade into and watch.

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The four depths of knowing

From the open wonders any crosser may read, down to the findings the survey holds closest.

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The Lesser Encyclopedia
The body of the survey. Most findings are kept here.
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The Greater Encyclopedia
Cited and restricted. The gloss is open; the account needs clearance.
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The Sealed Encyclopedia
The findings the survey holds closest.
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