The Quiet Ledger of Ssar'veth

A throat-collar of overlapping serpent scales cast in dull jade and veined with thin seams of electrum, this relic rests warm against the skin like a living thing. Tiny glyphs crawl across its inner ring like ink finding cracks in parchment, and a pair of gem eyes, one amber and one milky green, stare outward from a fang-shaped clasp. When light strikes it, the collar seems to unfold into a phantom ledger, with translucent lines of figures and names drifting around the wearer's neck like a halo of accusations.