The Ley-Convergence Focusing Lens
A broad, disc-shaped instrument of crystalline Mystaran glass set within an articulated frame of pale enchanted alloy, its surface etched with recursive geometric patterns that seem to recede infinitely inward when studied too long. At its centre burns a permanent mote of condensed ley-line energy, cold and brilliant as a captured star.
Artifact Details
- Type
- Relic
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Origin
- Constructed collectively by the Mystaran Conclave in an era when the Ley-Convergence first began to exhibit irregular fluctuations, the Lens was designed to ensure that no future surge or drought of arcane energy could catch the civilization unprepared. Its central mote was drawn directly from a controlled puncture of the Convergence itself.
Overview
The Ley-Convergence Focusing Lens is a legendary relic in Landorya. Its known origin is Constructed collectively by the Mystaran Conclave in an era when the Ley-Convergence first began to exhibit irregular fluctuations, the Lens was designed to ensure that no future surge or drought of arcane energy could catch the civilization unprepared. Its central mote was drawn directly from a controlled puncture of the Convergence itself.. Its most cited abilities include Reads fluctuations in the ambient arcane field and precisely predicts upcoming peaks and ebbs in the Ley-Convergence cycle, Amplifies the potency of any magical working performed during a Convergence peak by a significant magnitude, and Identifies and maps ley line currents, dimensional thin-spots, and active enchantments within a vast radius. Accounts also warn of a drawback: Those who gaze into the central mote without proper preparation are flooded with unfiltered ley-line data, an experience compared to every spell ever cast in L…
History
The Lens has guided every major Mystaran working of consequence, from the shaping of Mystara's perceptual nature to the timing of the most ambitious divination rituals. It is said that when the Drakonian Empire was at the height of its expansionist aggression, the Conclave used the Lens to determine the precise moment of celestial alignment that would lend maximum force to the probability-wards erected along Mystara's borders. It now rests in the deepest chamber of the Conclave archive, tended by a rotating order of junior scholars who monitor its readings without cessation.
Powers & Abilities
- ✦ Reads fluctuations in the ambient arcane field and precisely predicts upcoming peaks and ebbs in the Ley-Convergence cycle
- ✦ Amplifies the potency of any magical working performed during a Convergence peak by a significant magnitude
- ✦ Identifies and maps ley line currents, dimensional thin-spots, and active enchantments within a vast radius
- ✦ Can be used as a master scrying instrument, projecting visions of any location touched by a ley line
Curse or Drawback
Those who gaze into the central mote without proper preparation are flooded with unfiltered ley-line data, an experience compared to every spell ever cast in Landorya echoing simultaneously through one's mind, leaving the unprepared catatonic.