The Winding Box

The third component of the Gate of the Feral Gods: a heavy, old wooden case like a humidor or music box, with a glass window, two knobs and two cradles, one for each mirrored watch. With the two watches seated and wound, it opens the Gate; Ghazi cracked a way to use the box alone to banish a whole location into the Nothing, his intended fail-safe against the possessed ghost. Carl punches Ghazi out and steals it, putting two of the three pieces in his hands: the box plus Kane's watch, with only Henrik's watch, lost in the flooded tomb, still missing.

Book 4 appearances

• Chapter 21 — Carl steals it from Ghazi’s burning lab: the council’s letter inside reveals it can banish the necropolis to the Nothing.
• Chapter 22 — A note looted from the dead mage finally explains how to work it.

Related entries

• The Gate of the Feral Gods (Item)
• The Mad Dune Mage (Ghazi) (Character)
• The Collateral Code (Lore)
• Henrik (Character)
• Samantha (Psamathe) (Character)

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