The slightly pointy ridge inside the ear that is tucked just under the frontmost part of the helix (the ridge the runs from the back of the ear, around the top, and becomes the daith once it passes under the rook). It can also be seen as the culmination of the edge that demarks the border between the conch and the upper conch (the two big flat areas inside the ear).

If a left ear looks something like this, the linked area is the rook:

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