Starshade Amulet

Starshade Amulet is a legendary talisman in Landorya. Its known origin is The Starshade Amulet was forged during the Third Conclave of Stars by Archweaver Serethal Voss, a master artificer of the Order of the Starlight, high within the Aetherspire of the Celestial Reaches. Serethal drew raw starstone from a fallen celestial shard gifted by the Celestials themselves, binding it with aetheric alloy and inscribing the Seven Seals of Lyria to create an artefact capable of holding the darkness of the encroaching Blighted Age at bay.. Its most cited abilities include Dark-Magic Ward: Forms an invisible aetheric barrier that nullifies curses, hexes, and shadow-spells of up to moderate potency on contact with the wearer's skin., Spellcasting Amplifier: Channels ambient starlight, even in total darkness, to heighten the wearer's arcane focus, reducing the cost of aether-drawn spells and sharpening their precision., and Corruption Sense: The amulet's glow intensifies proportionally to the proximity and strength of dark forces, acting as an infallible compass toward, or away from, malign enchantments.. Accounts also warn of a drawback: The amulet's soul-anchoring power comes at a grave cost: the longer it is worn without removal, the more it erodes the boundary between the wearer's identity a…

During the Blighted Age, the amulet was borne by High Warden Lyria Ashenveil of the Order of the Starlight, for whom it earned its alias, the Amulet of Lyria, after she single-handedly shattered a Drakonian shadow-siege upon the gates of Eldoria using its Lyrian Aegis. Upon Lyria's death at the Battle of the Ashen Veil, the amulet passed into the custody of the Desert Scholars of the Sunken Archive, who studied its Seven Seals for two centuries before it was stolen by a Fey Court assassin acting on the orders of the Twilight Throne. Its current whereabouts are fiercely debated, the Order of the Starlight maintains that it lies sealed within a warded vault beneath the Iron Mountains, while Sphinx riddle-records from the Sun-Scarred Peaks cryptically suggest it rests upon a living neck still.