Aetheric Engine Core of El'goroth
A chest-sized polyhedron of interlocked crystal-infused stone and alchemical bronze, its facets carved with layered Elemental Synthesis runes that pulse with a deep cerulean light in rhythmic waves, like a slow mechanical heartbeat. Heat radiates from its core in carefully controlled intervals, and the air around it carries the sharp, clean scent of ionized aether, a smell El'goroth residents call 'the breath of the city.'
Artifact Details
- Type
- Relic
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Origin
- Designed by the foremost Crystal Engineers of El'goroth during the age of Azaria's great infrastructural expansion, the Engine Core represents the empire's most ambitious marriage of Elemental Synthesis and Crystal Engineering. Its construction required Gnomish precision components for its internal regulator arrays and Drakonian fire-tempered alloys for its heat-bearing chassis, a testament to Azaria's philosophy of cultural synthesis.
Overview
Aetheric Engine Core of El'goroth is a legendary relic in Landorya. Its known origin is Designed by the foremost Crystal Engineers of El'goroth during the age of Azaria's great infrastructural expansion, the Engine Core represents the empire's most ambitious marriage of Elemental Synthesis and Crystal Engineering. Its construction required Gnomish precision components for its internal regulator arrays and Drakonian fire-tempered alloys for its heat-bearing chassis, a testament to Azaria's philosophy of cultural synthesis.. Its most cited abilities include Powers the Crystal Railway's levitation array across an entire provincial line when properly installed, Sustains continuous Elemental Synthesis outputs, heating, lighting, and mana-rotation farming systems, for a city district, and Emits stabilizing aetheric pulses that suppress wild magic surges within a wide radius. Accounts also warn of a drawback: An Engine Core pushed beyond its calibrated threshold by unskilled or unauthorized tampering will invert its stabilizing pulse into a wild-magic amplifier, tri…
History
The original Engine Core installed beneath El'goroth is said to have run without interruption for over two centuries, powering the first Crystal Railway line and the alchemical laboratory spires that made the capital famous across Landorya. When a saboteur, believed to be a foreign agent resentful of Azaria's economic dominance, attempted to overload the Core during the Grand Diplomatic Summit, a Guild of Medicine enchanter used an emergency Elemental Synthesis counter-pulse to avert catastrophe, an event now commemorated in the Azarian civic calendar. Copies of the design have since been installed in all twelve provincial capitals, though none match the original in output or stability.
Powers & Abilities
- ✦ Powers the Crystal Railway's levitation array across an entire provincial line when properly installed
- ✦ Sustains continuous Elemental Synthesis outputs, heating, lighting, and mana-rotation farming systems, for a city district
- ✦ Emits stabilizing aetheric pulses that suppress wild magic surges within a wide radius
- ✦ Can be tuned by a master enchanter to redirect its output toward large-scale alchemical transmutation
Curse or Drawback
An Engine Core pushed beyond its calibrated threshold by unskilled or unauthorized tampering will invert its stabilizing pulse into a wild-magic amplifier, triggering catastrophic mana-surges across the district it serves, a failure mode the Guild of Crystal Engineering guards against with zealous redundancy protocols.