We head to the nearest Oathmark, in the center of Azure Prime.
Even after two lives in Thirstfall, those structures still manage to give me a certain discomfort.
The monolith rises in the middle of the main square with a gigantic presence, pointed up at the ocean sky above us. Unlike the usual needle-like spires found elsewhere, the one here in Azure Prime takes the form of a massive arch. While every Oathmark is unique in its design, they all share two things in common: the ancient runes and the sheer scale. This particular arch looks carved from some mineral impossible to exist naturally. Bluish runes travel across its entire surface in slow, pulsing lines, like blood vessels carrying pure OXI through a sleeping creature.
People come and go around it, always paying attention to its presence.
Everything important happens around it, as if the most essential things to life in Thirstfall begin right there.
Messages.
Contracts.
Transfers.
Distress calls.
Promises.
