Item:Nacre-bone leviathan skull inlaid with ghostly pale asarenjan symbols
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| nacre-bone leviathan skull inlaid with ghostly pale asarenjan symbols | |
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| Look: | The skull has about 500 uses of pearly dust remaining. Crafted with artistic license, the miniature pearlescent head appears to be grinning despite having no muscles and empty eye sockets. |
| Weight: | 2 stones |
| Metal: | No |
| Appraised Cost: | 4,062,500 Kronars3,250,000 Lirums <br />2,931,500 Dokoras <br />4,062.5 LTBpoints <br />4,062.5 Tickets <br />4,062.5 Scrips <br /> |
| Properties: | This is jewelry.
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| Dimensions: | 3 length x 1 width x 1 height |
| Sources: | Source is Limited Treasures (6), Decrepit sunken leather haversack supported by a knotted rope strap |
- You focus your magical senses on a nacre-bone leviathan skull inlaid with ghostly pale asarenjan symbols.
- While the leviathan skull is nothing special, the pearly dust inside it appears to be enchanted to serve as a ritual focus.
- The focus has been enchanted with sublime care and reinforced with an Analogous Patterns sub-enchantment. It should be compatible with any ritual.
- While the magical nature of the focus is clear enough, you will need to study it more carefully to recollect how they function.
- You recognize that the skull 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 is a supply of mana-reactive pearly dust. Mana-reactive materials are enchanted in such a way that they react to mana shortly after being exposed to the open, quickly accumulating a charge of spell energy before burning out. Drawing on a technique the Moon Mages invented, it is possible to draw a ritual pattern that reflects the two-dimensional "shadow" of the nascent spell. If this is done quickly and accurately, the burst of energy has been shaped to channel itself safely into the spell pattern.
- 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.