Aren's Ironfire
ARTIFACT / RELIC / inherited machine-weapon heirloom
A worn Ascendant weapon preserved within the Velmara family and associated with their ancestor Aren
First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 1
Rootmere Bone Chimes
Sacred implement / warning instrument / recurring object family
Rootmere’s bone chimes hang where path, root, and memory meet. Villagers treat them as old signs, while the Orun-Keeper watches their movement for meanings the children have never been fully taught
First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 1
Explore the artifacts, relics, sacred implements, and significant objects discovered throughout The Other Side saga. Each discovery reveals hidden histories, forgotten purposes, mysterious effects, ancient craftsmanship, and powerful connections to the people, places, and events that shape the unfolding story.
ARTIFACTS, RELICS AND SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS
DISCOVERED THROUGHOUT THE SAGA
Rootmere Thread-and-Ash Protection Signs
Ward / boundary object family / customary protective assembly
Rootmere protects itself with what it has - ash, thread, roots, and remembered gestures. Few villagers can still explain the oldest reasons, but fear restores the practice faster than certainty ever could
First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 1
Yasmin’s Resonant Black Stone
Unresolved material object / threshold-linked artifact / possible gate key or marker
A palm-sized black stone waits beneath an ancient tree until Yasmin touches it. It bends light, delays sound, carries patterns beneath its surface, and leads her toward a gate that should not exist
First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 1
Root-and-Shadow Bark-Skin Scripture Fragments
Document / scripture / historical relic family
Once copied onto bark-skin and kept through a family line, the root-and-shadow accounts survive mostly as damp-damaged fragments and remembered half-lines about beings who watch from places where light does not settle
First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 2
Mara’s Root-Bone and Dull-Metal Elder Pendant
Regalia / status object / personal significant object
Mara’s round pendant combines root-bone with dull metal and rests among the old bead strings of Rootmere’s matriarch. Its formal history has not yet been revealed, but it visually marks a woman who carries more memory than comfort
First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 4
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Velmara Naming and Expulsion Warning Charm
Warning / boundary / social threat object; hostile material assembly
Someone ties an old sign backward at the Velmara door - green root-fiber, three clean bird bones, black cloth, and ash. To the family, the meaning is unmistakable: leave before the village names what it fears
First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 4
Leya’s wooden cup
Personal keepsake / domestic continuity object
When the Velmaras are told to carry only what matters, six-year-old Leya chooses a small wooden cup and refuses the idea that it is anything less than need
First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 4
Sacred implement family / ritual vessel set / fixed significant objects
Orun’s House Rite-Ash Bowls
Along the inner wall of Orun’s House sit practical stone bowls filled with ash from rites the village’s children have never been fully taught. Each bowl carries the residue of a community asking roots to remember what people cannot
First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 4
Yasmin’s Wrapped Hearth Coal-Stone
Personal keepsake / memory object / domestic continuity anchor
Faced with leaving home, Yasmin wraps a soot-black hearth stone in worn cloth and packs it beside her few belongings. It carries no known power. She takes it so the fire will know where to find them
First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 4
Rootmere-Stoneward Archive Map
DOCUMENT / RECORD / archival cartographic reconstruction
Rootmere’s surviving war map is a reconstruction laid over older memories—paths, cords, captured plans and postquake damage—leaving disagreement visible where certainty did not survive
First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 0A
Farwatch Cords
DOCUMENT / CODE-OBJECT FAMILY / tactile route and operations record system
Farwatch carried routes, water changes, threats and withdrawals in cords that could be read by touch and recopied in darkness
First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 0A
Farwatch Return Knot
SIGNIFICANT OBJECT FAMILY / identity-challenge and return-state cord assembly
Beneath a Farwatch harness, a small cord knot carried route, departure tension and one secret confirmation—useful evidence that a return was complicated, never proof that a person was unchanged
First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 0A
Rootmere War Leaves
DOCUMENT / TESTIMONY RECORD FAMILY
Rootmere’s War Leaves preserve testimony in loose, repaired bark-skin groups, sometimes keeping two incompatible judgments on the same cord
​First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 0A
Halvek Containment Plate
ARTIFACT / DOCUMENT / captured Ascendant administrative plate
A surviving Ascendant plate reduces the proposed cage around Rootmere to cost, compliance and recoverable labor—evidence of policy made dangerous by its calmness
First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 0A
Hunger Ledger
DOCUMENT / REGISTER / unique famine archive object
Bound between salvaged metal strips, Rootmere’s Hunger Ledger begins in orderly household lines and darkens into reused margins, altered portions and names that no longer answer
First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 0A
Transfer Directive Plate
ARTIFACT / DOCUMENT / captured Ascendant strategic-administrative plate
A final Ascendant directive shows Stoneward set against richer Vathren deposits, preserving the calculation that made departure cheaper than rebuilding
First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 0A
Captured Ascendant Plates
ARTIFACT / DOCUMENT / administrative and technical information-carrier family
Black and dark-silver Ascendant plates survived after their readers failed, leaving Rootmere with fractured technical and administrative evidence that outlasted the systems that created it
First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 0A
Surviving Rootmere War Archive
DOCUMENT / RECORD / collective evidence family
Rootmere’s war archive survives as bark-skin, cords, broken plates and marks in the wall—sources kept for different reasons and compared without hiding their damage or disagreement
​First revealed: Book 1, Chapter 0A
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