Item:Kaleidoscopic sanowret crystal set in a tomiek wildling spider
| kaleidoscopic sanowret crystal set in a tomiek wildling spider | |
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| Look: | Glowing with a soft light, a crystalline dodecahedron serves as the spider's abdomen. Thin lines of silver enmesh the surface, forming a complex lattice of tessellating polygons. |
| Weight: | 2 stones |
| Metal: | No |
| Appraised Cost: | 2,500,000 Kronars2,000,000 Lirums <br />1,804,000 Dokoras <br />2,500 LTBpoints <br />2,500 Tickets <br />2,500 Scrips <br /> |
| Properties: | This is an item.
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| Dimensions: | 1 length x 1 width x 1 height |
| Sources: | Source is Accents for the Arachnophile (7), Accents for the Arachnophile (6), Accents for the Arachnophile (5) |
This item is a sanowret crystal and trains Arcana on use.
You gaze intently into your sanowret crystal, seeking the promise of hidden knowledge as light dances across its surface. A soft light blossoms in the very center of the crystal, and begins to fill your mind with the knowledge of the Spidersworn and wildling spiders.
Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about the Spidersworn and wildling spiders rings clear in your mind: Is it possible to know the mind of a spider? A group that calls itself the Spidersworn discovered the answer. In Shorka 425, they made their first public appearance at their shop, Accents for the Arachnophile, in order to tell the public about themselves and their charges, the wildling spiders.
Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about the Spidersworn and wildling spiders rings clear in your mind: The Spidersworn follow the goddess Harawep. They clothe themselves in elaborate robes swathed in colorful wildlace, but that is where the resemblance to an ordinary cult ends. Incredibly, their initiation rites assimilate their minds into a collective consciousness. As a result, the Spidersworn always speak and move in perfect unison, even when making slight adjustments to their posture.
Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about the Spidersworn and wildling spiders rings clear in your mind: When the Spidersworn speak of themselves, it is invariably in the plural: we, us, ourselves. When they are together, the Spidersworn share a collective sensory experience. When they are far apart, they simply know what the others have experienced, thought, or felt.
Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about the Spidersworn and wildling spiders rings clear in your mind: Their purpose is to serve, translate, and speak for Harawep's creatures, who form part of their collective consciousness. As they put it, "We share their mind, as they share ours, as do all of Her creatures." Yet while the Spidersworn share a telepathic link with all spiders, there is one species of spider to which they owe complete devotion: the wildling spider.
Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about the Spidersworn and wildling spiders rings clear in your mind: It is the venom of wildling spiders that transforms ordinary Humans -- it does not work on other races -- into the Spidersworn. Harawep created wildling spiders for this purpose and others.
Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about the Spidersworn and wildling spiders rings clear in your mind: Wildling spiders are a long-lived species. The spiderlings typically gestate within crystalline droplets for a hundred years, although specimens have been known to remain in their droplets for up to a thousand years. When the spiderlings feel it is the right time, they emerge, although they are very small and only venture out of the crystalline droplets for short periods of time.
Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about the Spidersworn and wildling spiders rings clear in your mind: Unlike conventional spiders, wildling spiders feed on mana -- primarily from the air but potentially from the blood of those deemed worthy. A fully grown wildling spider is approximately two to three feet in length (including the legs), and coloring depends on the type of mana it has recently consumed. A diet high in life mana produces blues and greens. Spiders that have fed on holy mana are white and gold. Elemental mana results in elemental hues -- or sometimes a very particular blue. Lunar mana is expressed with whorls of shadows and pale moon and starlight colors.
Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about the Spidersworn and wildling spiders rings clear in your mind: Effectively immortal, wildling spiders live until killed. Their health is linked to that of the Web of Fate: that which harms the Web is poisonous to the spiders. Even being exposed to the presence of a sufficiently corrupt necromancer can jeopardize their health, and wildling spiders have refused to show themselves when such "sickness" is present.
Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about the Spidersworn and wildling spiders rings clear in your mind: While conventional spiders spin silk, elder wildling spiders spin wildlace. Authentic wildlace contains small but extremely durable crystalline droplets similar to the structures used for egg casings. The Spidersworn consider wildlace to be a gift that brings the wearer closer to the wildling spiders. Each piece is unique in color and design, and these features cannot be altered, as to change the gift is to destroy it in one's own hubris.
The light and crystal sound of your sanowret crystal fades slightly as you come to the end of the knowledge about the Spidersworn and wildling spiders. You feel quite enlightened, if a bit mentally tired.