Sunstone 1.0 -

Hold the stone to the sky. Rotate it until the two shadows—ordinary and extraordinary—balance into one. The crystal, double-refracting, splits the light. When the intensities match, the hidden sun reveals itself. Through overcast fog, through storm-torn sleet, through the gray ceiling of an angry heaven, the sunstone finds the truth.

In later versions—2.0, 3.0—they will add compasses, star charts, satellites. But the first version remains the purest. It does not tell you where you are. It tells you only that the sun still exists, even when you cannot see it. sunstone 1.0

The First Dawn Protocol

Then came the sunstone.

And sometimes, in the longest nights, that is enough. Hold the stone to the sky