Loom-Crown of the Arch-Luminary
A diadem wrought from interlaced bands of astral crystal and woven Veil-Silk thread, its form suggesting both a crown and the skeletal frame of a great loom frozen mid-weave. Seven small Lumen Shards are set at equal intervals around its circumference, each calibrated to a different aetheric frequency, casting prismatic light across the face of the wearer.
Artifact Details
- Type
- Regalia
- Rarity
- Unique
- Origin
- Crafted collectively by the founding generation of the Conclave of Luminaries as both a symbol of office and a functional instrument of governance, the Loom-Crown was assembled over thirty years at the central ley-line convergence of the Astral Plateau. Its Veil-Silk threads were woven on the original Veil-Loom and its crystals grown in synchrony with the construction of the first Aether-Gate.
Overview
Loom-Crown of the Arch-Luminary is a unique regalia in Landorya. Its known origin is Crafted collectively by the founding generation of the Conclave of Luminaries as both a symbol of office and a functional instrument of governance, the Loom-Crown was assembled over thirty years at the central ley-line convergence of the Astral Plateau. Its Veil-Silk threads were woven on the original Veil-Loom and its crystals grown in synchrony with the construction of the first Aether-Gate.. Its most cited abilities include Grants the wearer supreme authority to interface with and reconfigure the ley-line network of the Astral Plateau, Amplifies Probability-Shaping workings to a civilizational scale, allowing alteration of large-scale outcomes, and Serves as the master key to the Conclave of Luminaries' licensing architecture, enabling or revoking Veil-Severance sanctions. Accounts also warn of a drawback: The crown imposes its accumulated weight of civilizational memory upon the wearer: each hour worn floods the mind with the unfiltered thoughts and dying vision…
History
Worn by every Arch-Luminary across Mythalis's twenty-six-century history, the crown was last documented during the sealing of the great probability fracture near the civilization's end. It vanished with the final Arch-Luminary and was never recovered. Mystaran oral tradition holds that it lies dormant somewhere within the Arcane Substrate beneath their mist-shrouded land, its Lumen Shards still slowly pulsing, and that its rediscovery would grant its finder mastery over the Fractal Labyrinth itself.
Powers & Abilities
- ✦ Grants the wearer supreme authority to interface with and reconfigure the ley-line network of the Astral Plateau
- ✦ Amplifies Probability-Shaping workings to a civilizational scale, allowing alteration of large-scale outcomes
- ✦ Serves as the master key to the Conclave of Luminaries' licensing architecture, enabling or revoking Veil-Severance sanctions
- ✦ Shields the wearer's mind from all external psychic projection and telepathic intrusion
Curse or Drawback
The crown imposes its accumulated weight of civilizational memory upon the wearer: each hour worn floods the mind with the unfiltered thoughts and dying visions of every Arch-Luminary who preceded them, a psychic burden that has driven lesser minds to madness within a single night.