Crystal Ball of Foresight

Crystal Ball of Foresight is a legendary relic in Landorya. Its known origin is The Crystal Ball of Foresight was shaped by the Archmystic Seravael of THE MYSTARANS during the Age of Unravelling, when the boundary between the present and the aetheric future-planes grew dangerously thin. Seravael condensed raw aetheric resonance harvested from the Veil Rifts above the Mystaran Spire into a single crystalline lattice, binding it with silver-thread incantations whispered continuously for forty nights, intending it as a navigational tool to steer her people safely through the prophesied Collapse of the Sixth Chord.. Its most cited abilities include Foresight Visions: The wielder may gaze into the orb to witness one possible future up to seven days hence, rendered in vivid, wordless imagery that plays across the crystal's inner light., Fate-Thread Reading: When held above a living creature, the orb reveals the dominant thread of their destiny, boon, doom, or crossroads, as a colour visible only to the gazer., and Aetheric Warding: The orb passively deflects minor divination spells cast against its bearer, shrouding them from scrying and detection magic of lesser potency.. Accounts also warn of a drawback: Every vision granted by the orb leaves a hairline fracture of silver-white across the gazer's iris, invisible at first, but after a dozen uses the eye begins t…

The orb guided Seravael herself through the Collapse of the Sixth Chord, allowing THE MYSTARANS to evacuate three of their great archive-towers before the aetheric storms swallowed them, a salvation forever recorded in the Mystaran Codex of Preserved Truths. After Seravael's death, it passed to the Order of the Starlight, who locked it within the Aetheric Reliquary of the High Observatory, using it sparingly to foresee incursions by the Drakonians along the northern passage. During the Siege of the Amber Gates, a Desert Scholar envoy named Harouun al-Zafir stole the orb under the pretence of diplomatic exchange, convinced that its Fate-Thread Reading could locate the lost Sunken Library of Khemarat. Al-Zafir's expedition vanished somewhere in the Sun-Scarred Peaks, and the orb is believed to lie dormant in the ruins of a Sphinx waystation, where no sane traveller has ventured since the riddle-wards were last renewed.