Item:Icy blue crystal

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icy blue crystal
Look:	Inside the crystal, errant snowflakes seem to be stuck in time, forever suspended within its frosty domain.
Weight:	5 stones
Metal:	Unknown
Appraised Cost:	375,000 Kronars300,000 Lirums <br />270,600 Dokoras <br />375 LTBpoints <br />375 Tickets <br />375 Scrips <br />
Properties:	This item is magical. This holds the Will of Winter spell.
Dimensions:	1 length x 1 width x 1 height
Sources:	Source is Sleeping Dragon Corn Maze 432/End loot, Sleeping Dragon Corn Maze 428/End loot, Sleeping Dragon Corn Maze 425/End loot, Blue pouch embroidered with the phrase "Will of Winter"

• STUDY: You recognize that the crystal is a spellcasting device. The crystal will produce a magical effect under its own power if properly triggered, leaving your own talent out of the equation. Tales of humble heros [sic] producing spectacular magic because of a trinket find their anchor in reality here. There are few limits on the size or shape of spellcasting devices. Wands, rattles, staves and charms are common, but masterful enchanters have used pebbles or even dried flowers as the device's physical vessel. Most spellcasting devices contain a core of specially treated cambrinth to house the enchantment's charge, but a free-standing charge -- magical energy that simply hangs within its spell pattern -- is possible, at the cost of longevity.

While the crystal takes no spellcasting skill to work, invoking it is not effortless. Spellcasting devices require, at the very least, elaborate gesturing to function (a safety mechanism). Complex magic requires suitably complex perparations, often related to the realm of magic being used. It is not rare for a device to be keyed to the invoker's pulse, emotional state, bodily stance, surface thoughts or even prayfulness. The mixture of knowledge and discipline required to invoke these devices off hand demands practice.

You figure the simplest way to describe how to trigger it is "rubbing it, tapping it, touching it or invoking it."

• FOCUS: You focus your magical senses on an icy blue crystal.

The icy blue crystal has a definite magic pattern, which is apparently a spell.

You recognize the pattern as a manifestation of Elemental magic.

The pattern appears to be the Will of Winter spell.

There is enough energy built up to invoke the spell.