Item:Mosaic temple drum featuring a dramatic light-and-dark motif
| mosaic temple drum featuring a dramatic light-and-dark motif | |
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| Look: | The drum's wide based is carved from rowan wood and divided at its vertical midline by crystalline shesegri inlay, with one side dyed a creamy white shade of alabaster and the other washed in fiery vermilion hues. Golden stones forming an artistic rendering of the gloriously rising sun adorns the side of light, while glossy black obsidian creates an inferno of stylized flames upon the darker half. |
| Weight: | 10 stones |
| Metal: | No |
| Appraised Cost: | 2,812,500 Kronars2,250,000 Lirums <br />2,029,500 Dokoras <br />2,812.5 LTBpoints <br />2,812.5 Tickets <br />2,812.5 Scrips <br /> |
| Properties: | This is an instrument.
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| Dimensions: | 5 length x 2 width x 1 height |
| Sources: | Source is House of the Rowan Branch (shop) |
You recognize that the drum is a ritual focus. It's a tool that assists in harnessing the mana required to cast ritual spells, if it is invoked while the spell is being prepared.
In particular, this directly assists in harnessing mana. When activated, the drum will accumulate energy from mana streams that pass through it, stored within a core of specially enchanted cambrinth. The enchantment is designed for fluid discharge rather than lifespan, so the magician must skillfully direct the spell energy within moments of reaching the desired charge.
The mana manipulation done through ritual foci are crude and often sharply limited by the design of the enchantment. Most ritual foci are limited to being useful only to a specific book of magic, though foci designed with incredible skill can be more broadly useful. No known ritual focus is fine enough to work at a level above the blunt strokes of empowering a ritual, much to the relief of their users' job security.