Dead branch

Of the wood in the first canto the poem says it is a «selva oscura» and says nothing about what is in it; the game decides that what is in it is dead wood. It is the first material of the descent and the only one that serves two different ends: with a resin tear it becomes a torch, with a flint shard it becomes three arrows. On its own it does nothing, and the bag says so when you try: it is no use alone, it gets made into something.

Sixteen small piles of one or two pieces, scattered through the trees. They sit in the same spots every time because the generator has a fixed seed, and a wood whose shape you learn is a wood where you can say «the branch behind that trunk». Dead wood comes back much further down, in the chapter of the walls: every broken thorn in the wood of the suicides drops one, and there what you pick up used to be a man.