The Maw manifests as a living aperture in the mountain's face, lined with granite teeth that grind every claimed achievement down to its essential truth. Its throat bears scale-patterns that permanently etch the record of what descends, while deep within, digestive processes combine the Court's alpenglow judgment with the Aerie's earthfire partnership. What nourishes the mountains' memory becomes eternal; what fails to sustain is expelled as forgotten ash on the wind.

The Ledger Maw serves as the ultimate arbiter of what the mountains will digest and remember, consuming achievements from both Court judgment and Aerie partnership to determine which challengers have provided sustaining nourishment to dragon memory across all sixteen trials.