The Maw Key

The Maw Key authorises the sealing of Mawhold's deepest gates and the release of its trapworks. It is carried under multiple witnesses because one turn can save Kharod or bury allies with enemies. The key is not mysterious. Its terror lies in plain mechanism: oiled teeth, black iron, witness chains, and the final sound of a door that will not open again. The first law around it was written after an old siege no clan can discuss without naming its abandoned. Every generation learns that a key can be mercy, murder, and survival at once.