Item:Ink-black sanowret crystal gilded with gold script
| ink-black sanowret crystal gilded with gold script | |
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| Look: | The sanowret crystal glows with a soft light and is shaped into a perfect cube. Thin lines of silver reinforce the crystal in a complex lattice. |
| Weight: | 2 stones |
| Appraised Cost: | 100,000 Kronars80,000 Lirums <br />72,160 Dokoras <br />100 LTBpoints <br />100 Tickets <br />100 Scrips <br /> |
| Properties: | This is jewelry.
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| Dimensions: | 1 length x 1 width x 1 height |
| Sources: | Source is Fenvol's Folly 456/Incidental Loot |
This item is a sanowret crystal and trains Arcana on use.
Gaze Messaging
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 Tale of Fenvol's Folly.
Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about The Tale of Fenvol's Folly rings clear in your mind:
Fenvol Ferris learned silence early, finding in written words a steadier company than conversation. That quiet preference deepened into devotion, furthering his studies with the Moon Mage Guild and granting him rising status in the Heritage House, where reverence for books matched his own. As his skill grew, his world narrowed to ink, margin, and meaning, and even in adulthood, his affection was measured in shared reading rather than speech.
Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about The Tale of Fenvol's Folly rings clear in your mind:
Fenvol met Indaris in early adulthood, when his world was still small and carefully kept. Where he was reserved, she was effortlessly bright, quick to speak, quicker to laugh, and unafraid to draw him outward. She loved his stories as deeply as he did, but where he consumed them, she shared them, pressing books into his hands and pulling him into conversations he never would have sought on his own. With her, the world felt wider, less daunting, something to be explored rather than avoided.
Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about The Tale of Fenvol's Folly rings clear in your mind:
Following a boating accident, Indaris walked the Starry Road, and her loss shattered Fenvol's fragile world. He withdrew entirely, sealing himself within his personal collection. Years passed in dim light and careful study, his grief transmuting into determination. He began experimenting, not to command magic, but to preserve presence. He sought a way to give his stories a permanence akin to life.
Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about The Tale of Fenvol's Folly rings clear in your mind:
Fenvol's early explorations into illusion magic were delicate things: faintly animated bindings, whispering margins, crude figures shaped from layered scrolls and lacquered covers. They were meant to linger, to fill the hollow quiet. But intention and outcome drifted apart. The enchanted objects took too strongly to their purpose. They did not merely accompany they guarded.
Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about The Tale of Fenvol's Folly rings clear in your mind:
Over time, the library grew and adapted. Stacks shifted, bookcases moved, and passages formed, randomly connecting different sections of Fenvol's vast collection. The constructs created to be companions and pets grew more willful, less precise reflections of their intended design, shaped as much by their creator's solitude as by his craft. They became territorial, restless, and fiercely protective of every volume, every shelf, every corner of their home.
Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about The Tale of Fenvol's Folly rings clear in your mind:
A decade later, Fenvol stepped back into the world. Time has worn away the sharpest edges of his grief, leaving something quieter in its wake: maybe not acceptance, but a certain willingness to see and be seen once more. He decided to throw wide the doors of his home, inviting strangers into the private world he crafted in isolation and offering them a glimpse of his creations.
Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about The Tale of Fenvol's Folly rings clear in your mind:
Instead of being lost within Fenvol's manor, where he was metaphorically trapped for so long, visitors are given all the information they need to walk free. Curious travelers, beware! Its magical guardians, born of devastating loss and a love of all things literary, defend it with a ferocious devotion that borders on dangerous, as though they fear what might be lost if the silence is broken.
The light and crystal sound of your sanowret crystal fades slightly as you come to the end of the knowledge about The Tale of Fenvol's Folly. You feel quite enlightened, if a bit mentally tired.