Silver Rod

The Silver Rod is an Artifact available in Part Two of Golden Treasure: The Great Green, but it only becomes useful in Part Three. It can only be obtained following the completion of the Great Lesson. Additionally, it can only be made useful if the player owns or has used the Crystal Fang at any point in the run. It is Darktooth's counterpart to the Onyx Rod, received from Vantage.

Description
"This silvery rod was granted to you by Darktooth the Wise. It was given without payment in exchange, which is counter to Tradition... unless, of course, the giving of it somehow benefits the giver."

Researched Description
"This seems to be some kind of key, meant to unlock something. The shinestone of which it is made is actually not silver, but some kind of strange amalgamation of various shinestones. It is well-nigh indestructible.

It is worth perhaps 25 shiny things in trade, though if you knew what it unlocked, it might be worth more."

Awakened Description
"The Silver Rod is now awake, and babbling circuloid luminosities.

Incredible as it may seem, the patterns are instructions for reaching other Earths and Suns impossibly far away. One would have to conquer the Void Itself to make use of it, but to such a one the worth may be incalculable.

To others, it is worth 45 shiny things in trade for the novel way it weaves light."

Usage
The Silver Rod has no uses besides sale until Part Three. If the Crystal Fang is used at any point, Spiritkeeper gains the ability to go to a new location, where both the Silver Rod and Onyx Rod may be awakened and have their effects unlocked.

Unlike the Onyx Rod, the Silver Rod is only useful to access Darktooth's ending during the Grand Moot, and is only useful at all if it is awakened. Notably, for giving Darktooth the Awakened Silver Rod, it will save your life if Many-Times-Burned attempts to execute you.