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Caches (CA-sh) are marble-sized items that are very precious to the Council. Inside, there are tiny balls each wrapped in a small ring. Each one is a single Forgotten Secret. To access a Forgotten Secret, there is a password and process to unlock it.
Uses[]
They hold memories that are too dangerous for even the Councillors to have, known as Forgotten Secrets.
Fintan uses his cache to store all of his bad memories so he doesn’t shatter from guilt.
How to Store Forgotten Secrets[]
When a particularly secret or painful memory occurs, the Councillors place these memories into the cache (presumably through some type of Telepathic method) before having the memory erased from their minds. The erased memories are called the Forgotten Secrets and need to be well protected as they can throw the Lost Cities into chaos. In Legacy, it is revealed that Oralie's cache holds only one secret, unlike most caches, which usually have more.
Care and Keeping of Caches[]
To keep caches safe, they are often stored in the void. Edaline explained in Neverseen that everything in the universe is connected through strings of energy; the void is the place where all of the strings meet up. Conjurers are able to pull the strings to bring whatever is on the other end of the string to them. Conjurers can also put things (like caches) into the void and attach an energy string to whoever the cache belongs to.
When the person whom the cache is attached to mentally pulls on the string, the cache is pulled out of the void. This is why Councillor Oralie appeared to be a Conjurer at the beginning of Neverseen (because she was pulling Kenric's cache out of the void). The person to which the cache is attached to must be able to hold onto the cache wherever they hide the other end in their mind.
If they should lose hold on the cache, there is an additional protective measure where a keyword/phrase can be spoken in the cache holder's voice and the cache will appear. This safety measure only works once. The command can also be mimicked to bring the cache out of the void to steal it, as demonstrated by Keefe in Neverseen when he betrays Sophie and takes Kenric's cache. In Nightfall, it is revealed that Fintan Pyren protects his caches by making copies.
If the holder is ever forced to open the cache by someone, they have the option to use a password that destroys it.
How to Extract the Secret[]
In Unlocked, it was revealed that for Oralie's cache, it needed her blood, sweat, and tears to be rubbed against the object, and a password which turned out to be "Fathdon".
It is unknown whether this is the same for every cache, but it is true that each forbidden secret has to have a password to unlock it.
Known Cache Holders[]
- Alina
- Bronte
- Clarette
- Darek
- Emery
- Fintan Pyren (Former Councillor)
- Councillor Kenric (Formerly, deceased)
- Liora
- Noland
- Oralie
- Ramira
- Terik
- Velia
- Zarina
Known Number of Forgotten Secrets[]
- Kenric's cache has 7 Forgotten Secrets.
- Fintan's cache has 9 Forgotten Secrets.
- Oralie's cache has 1 Forgotten Secret.
- It is unknown how many Forgotten Secrets there are in Ramira's cache, but in Unlocked, it was mentioned that her cache contains the most Forgotten Secrets.