The Mark manifests as a physical token bearing patterns that shift between granite striations and dragon scale textures, never settling on purely one or the other. It grows imperceptibly heavier with each worthy deed across the sixteen trials, its weight a tangible measure of accumulated recognition. When multiple marked individuals gather, the tokens emit a low harmonic resonance audible only to those the mountains have chosen to remember, a frequency that predates language itself.

Serves as the ultimate arbitrator of who enters the permanent record of the mountains, existing above both Court judgment and Aerie partnership as the primordial standard both traditions unconsciously measure against.