Item:Sungold sunburst partially eclipsed by Yavash
| sungold sunburst partially eclipsed by Yavash | |
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| Look: | Naturally warm, the iridescent gold metal shimmers like a sunset in progress, from the intense oranges and reds that burn the sky as the sun approaches the horizon to the twilight purples and blues that mourn the sun's passing. Yavash embraces the sun in a brief celestial tryst, the crimson moonsilver casting its silvery-red light onto the sun. Intricate orichalcum inlays form arabesques on each disk, resembling esoteric spell patterns composed of spiraling trinary elements. |
| Weight: | 5 stones |
| Metal: | Unknown |
| Appraised Cost: | Unknown |
| Properties: |
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| Dimensions: | ? length x ? width x ? height |
| Sources: | Source is Droughtman's Challenge 444/End loot, Droughtman's Challenge 441/End loot, Droughtman's Challenge 437/End loot, Droughtman's Challenge 433/End loot, Droughtman's Challenge 430/End loot |
You recognize that the sunburst 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 sunburst 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.