Field Guide to Public Leads
A public guide to the major leads currently shaping travel, faction risk, and rumor work across Jericha. It favors discovered story notes first, then workbook and old-backbone material when a thread helps explain the world without settling hidden answers.[1]
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Overview
A public guide to the major leads currently shaping travel, faction risk, and rumor work across Jericha. It favors discovered story notes first, then workbook and old-backbone material when a thread helps explain the world without settling hidden answers.[1]
Maine variants and the Tono clue
Description
Point Pringle evidence made Maine's identity problem public to the party: Tono, PP5's dead lover, looked like Maine; Grease Tooth killed Tono; and a half-burned chart listed multiple Maine variants with different alignments and fates. Tono's locket later acted as an emotional and tactical anchor inside Gertie's illusion.[3]
Lawful and Evil are civic movements, not just moods
Description
The Lawful emerged from post-Centrum order, registration pressure, and Gravenhurst authority, while Evil became its ideological opposite in Point Pringle's goblin conflict. Travelers should read Lawful/Evil claims as organized social pressure, not simple moral labels.[4]
Gold, relics, and the Void Era squeeze
Description
Jericha's prices make more sense once you remember that gold has swallowed most practical currency, magic is scarcer than late-Centrum habits prepared anyone for, and old enchanted objects now hold extractable value. The Void Era Economy reference is the main guide for why relic recovery, LEV, item quotas, forged bodies, Castro/Voidlings, and FLESH rhetoric keep colliding.[5]
Boost changes bodies, economies, and routes
Description
Boost is not just a drug note. It began as a body-altering advantage and has become a public hazard: Graven Scourge distribution history, displaced guild producers, Pink Pony revenge threads, Baron suspicion, Astrid's void-resonance warnings, New Goblin City gas pits, boosted phase spiders, and Vic's poisoning all point to the same problem. The Boost and Public Health reference is the dedicated travel guide for reading these signs. Boost is not universally illegal, but crimes and dangerous exposure can still surround its production and sale.[6]
Gertie's network leaves traps in ordinary life
Description
Gertie-linked danger often looks domestic, sentimental, or helpful before it turns. Chaos mazes, charm pressure, hag bargains, memory traps, and collected people all belong in the same warning shelf.[7]
Void contact leaves infrastructure behind
Description
Void activity shows up as creatures, corrupted items, altered places, portals, and identity breaks. The Void Realm, Black Ward fallout, void-touched wilderness, and Void Edge Blade visions should be read as connected evidence of a larger pattern.[8]
Red routes point toward hidden power
Description
Gravenhurst's public face is plazas, checkpoints, taverns, markets, and civic pressure. Its deeper trouble runs through thieves, counterfeit lanes, arcane drugs, Graven Scourge movement, and Abyss-touched masquerade threads.[9]
Djeebus, Paulus Levius, and uneven blessing
Description
The cathedral aftermath made faith materially public: Jonah was named as possibly worthy of a future Djeebus Paragon path, gifts were given unevenly, and spiritual worthiness became a live social question rather than private belief.[10]
Regional myths can explain thin map entries
Description
Older material still provides useful public color when carefully labeled: Pilix sea myths, Ragefort's Eternal Ember and Black Wyrm hooks, Point Pringle's Memory Fountain, and Timber Island's void-touched wilderness can help pages feel lived-in while awaiting newer confirmation.[11]
References
- [1] Field Guide to Public Leads↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference field-guide-to-public-leads; original wording and source certainty retained - [2] Field Guide to Public Leads↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference field-guide-to-public-leads; original wording and source certainty retained - [3] Field Guide to Public Leads · Maine variants and the Tono clue↩1↩2↩3↩4
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Published reference field-guide-to-public-leads#identity-maine-variants-and-the-tono-clue; source entry 1 - [4] Field Guide to Public Leads · Lawful and Evil are civic movements, not just moods↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference field-guide-to-public-leads#alignment-war-lawful-and-evil-are-civic-movements-not-just-moods; source entry 2 - [5] Field Guide to Public Leads · Gold, relics, and the Void Era squeeze↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference field-guide-to-public-leads#economy-gold-relics-and-the-void-era-squeeze; source entry 3 - [6] Field Guide to Public Leads · Boost changes bodies, economies, and routes↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference field-guide-to-public-leads#boost-boost-changes-bodies-economies-and-routes; source entry 4 - [7] Field Guide to Public Leads · Gertie's network leaves traps in ordinary life↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference field-guide-to-public-leads#collector-gertie-s-network-leaves-traps-in-ordinary-life; source entry 5 - [8] Field Guide to Public Leads · Void contact leaves infrastructure behind↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference field-guide-to-public-leads#void-void-contact-leaves-infrastructure-behind; source entry 6 - [9] Field Guide to Public Leads · Red routes point toward hidden power↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference field-guide-to-public-leads#gravenhurst-red-routes-point-toward-hidden-power; source entry 7 - [10] Field Guide to Public Leads · Djeebus, Paulus Levius, and uneven blessing↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference field-guide-to-public-leads#faith-djeebus-paulus-levius-and-uneven-blessing; source entry 8 - [11] Field Guide to Public Leads · Regional myths can explain thin map entries↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference field-guide-to-public-leads#old-backbone-regional-myths-can-explain-thin-map-entries; source entry 9