[h3]The Hunter's Dream[/h3]
“Any of the Gatekeepers' lanterns you find and light will become conduits, allowing you to return here safely, and adding another marker to the headstones to reawaken through,” the doll explained, smiling softly at Ophelia. The Shopkeeper also walked over to stand next to the doll. “As for the markers that are already there, good Hunter, the Shopkeeper is not responsible for them. Any time the Dream has no Hunters, the Gatekeepers take back their lanterns and the old markers are extinguished. The Shopkeeper filled the headstones with markers in their time, too, but those markers were erased once their task was completed. The markers you see now are the ones created by Gerlinde, the fourth Hunter currently bound to the Dream.”
The doll glanced nervously a the Shopkeeper, hesitating a moment before adding: “I am sorry, good Hunter, but we do not know what the golden markers are. They are conduits, we know that, but they are not created by the Gatekeepers. It is another new thing for the Dream; all the markers I have ever known were silver.”