The Heiress's Medallion
Also called the Key of Bindings in Greyden's framing; the medallion-as-key reading is the Shadowvar-side analysis of what it does.
Type: Artifact — Knock-class key, possibly the binding-key for Ser Vindictus's captivity in the Tomb of Orcus Original Possessor: The Heiress of Orcus (worn around her neck through her last waking days, including session 033 (sleeping) and session 034 (auction-floor, into the post-auction combat)) Status (latest): Recovery status unconfirmed. (See DM Notes — Greg, flag.) The Heiress fell in the post-auction combat; the medallion was on her body at the time; the party's post-combat sweep does not specifically track who recovered it. First Reference (visible): Session 033 (briefly, on the sleeping Heiress); first identified as a key-class object in session 034 by Greyden the Shadowvar.
What the Party Knows
- A glowing-blue medallion on a chain, worn by the Heiress.
- The Mephisto Twins were fixated on it through the entire auction — their real interest at the venue was the medallion, not their own lots. (Per Lessie's perception read; corroborated by KeYs's side-conversation with Greyden.)
- Greyden's reading: *"That is a key. The kind of key that opens bindings. The kind of bindings, if you believe the old stories, that hold Ser Vindictus in the Tomb of Orcus. Maybe she is wearing the key. Maybe that is why she wants the directions to the Tomb so badly."* The medallion's magic-school read is transmutive — similar to the Knock spell.
- The Heiress's auction-strategy (spending 220,000+ GP on Sir Gertz for the directions to the Tomb, and her own bid-list including the Lost King's scroll) all aligns with the medallion-is-the-key thesis — if she had gotten directions + medallion to the Tomb, she would have stood at the binding-cell with the binding-key and used it.