Its story
A palm-sized amulet of dark riverstone rests in a frame of worn bronze. Roots descend across its face around a small, steady flame, and a fine gold seam cuts through the stone like a buried vein. Cool and faintly rough against the skin, it gives a low vibration when its bearer speaks a sincere vow, like distant stone settling.
Lore
The Promise Underfoot embodies a vow made to what endures beneath the living world: the deep layers, the quiet dead, or the continent's hidden foundations. Its power grows through acts of witness and remembrance, not through a change in the stone itself.
History
The amulet's earliest history is lost. Its keepers say it passes to those willing to make a vow on behalf of people who cannot speak for themselves. In Hush-Rock Hollow, its quiet vigil tradition honors the dead whose names have slipped from the village records.