The Abyss Gate Inscription Chisel

The Abyss Gate Inscription Chisel is a rare relic in Landorya. Its known origin is Forged by the Abyssal Scribes and consecrated through immersion at the Abyss Gate shrines, the chisel was purpose-built to maintain the sacred deep-water inscriptions that spiritually anchor the Shimmering Isles to their Nereid origins. Its creation required both master metalwork and a binding ritual performed at maximum depth by a Scribe of the first bloodline.. Its most cited abilities include Allows inscriptions carved with it to endure indefinitely underwater without erosion, Grants the wielder the ability to remain submerged for up to twelve minutes without aid, and Inscriptions made with it carry a residual spiritual charge, linking the carver to Nereid-touched wards. Accounts also warn of a drawback: Any non-Islander who attempts to wield the chisel finds the violet-silver glow turns to a searing cold that burns through the hand, a phenomenon the Abyssal Sc…

The chisel has passed between generations of Abyssal Scribes for as long as institutional memory reaches, its earliest inscriptions at the Abyss Gate shrines believed by some scholars to date to the era of the Ocean's Children. Scholars from distant Landoryan civilizations have sought to study it, but the Scribes refuse all requests, considering the tool too spiritually sensitive to leave Islander waters. It was briefly lost during a seaquake near the outer islands and recovered three generations later, still glowing, wedged into a volcanic fissure.