Relics of the Dead Age.
*Relics are objects that have absorbed personality, tragedy, raw emotion, and other extremes from mortal and divine life. They gain power from those who once held them and are a major source of power among those evading the Astarte forces. *
Relic Name: The Legend.
Type: Misc.
Origin Class: Burning Words.
Appearance: A half-petrified mask once worn by the greatest spell caster to walk upon Ithia Markov Hybori. Gold still gleams with silver lilies in bloom. The First War of Assimilation that touched Ebon was against the Axandrians with their Chimera banner. They had attempted to avoid needless destruction. Preserve human life and culture. When the Astarte led forces came in the Second they firebombed Evangelis’ slums the wooden structures spreading across tightly packed tenements hundreds of thousands died as bombing raids blocked escape from the burning hellscape. Soldiers moved to secure the Palace, Senate Halls, and Hall of Magi burning books, slaughtering the inhuman, destroying cultural symbols, and leveling museums and temples. The Hall of Magi had been left with only the few Magi who had not marched off to defend Evari lands, and thus the Astarte thought they had an easy victory.
They brought forth their reviled censors that absorbed the magic in the air and denied most mages the magic to fuel their spells. Their false gods had been risen and marched under their God King and Crimson Goddess due to rumors of the monster that waited for them.
Hybori emerged from the hall as his mere presence melted their censors; their Sisters and Brothers who were perfect killers of mages felt their powers overwhelmed burned them alive from the inside. He spoke and the sky was torn asunder, and lightning lashed the invader forces, he motioned and the earth swallowed their machines, he slew two of the false gods before the lot could weave together any counter measure. He had nearly killed their pitiful King when the Crimson Goddess had stabbed him in the back with a poison dagger. He had torn from her the guilty arm and broke her body against the cobbles below. His flesh and clothes started to turn to stone. He battled the other false gods killing four more with spell and barehand before he could no longer move. Even then they saw the stone flex and shift and knew that it would not hold him. The survivors wove together a spell to banish him from this time and place and that he would never be able to return.
All that remained was this half-petrified mask, the terror of the Astarte Gods, and the half extermination of the Astarte invasion forces.
Phenomenal Traits:
The Legend Never Died: While channeling this relic, so long as this mask remains on your face, you cannot die. Your body may become damaged, but it cannot be destroyed. It will at a natural rate heal all injuries even those that shouldn’t mend. You do not need to eat, sleep, or drink to stay alive and healthy. You can, however, still very much feel pain, and should you pass out, your foes may freely remove it and let you deal with all the neglect and injuries you’ve suffered.
Power Overwhelming: While channeling this relic, magic spells you weave are magnified a dozen times over… but each spell cast slowly spreads stone across your flesh until you too vanish to another place and time leaving behind only the mask.
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