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Spellcrux

Wondrous Item

This pyramid-like object serves as a repository and has the following properties.

  • A person attuned to this item can use an action to regain a spell slot of 5th level of lower at will, can be done from anywhere
  • Something primordial/ancient magic in this item; it can be used to use words of power to change the power of one's magic itself: Whenever one casts a spell, you can attempt to use a following metamagic option even without being a sorcerer: distant spell, extended spell, heightened spell, quickened spell. To use this you need to make an ability check using your ability modifier DC 10+lvl attempting to cast. If you fail the check, your spell fails and the slot is wasted.
  • This item storage of magical power can be replenished by expending spells into it (casting  a spell into it casting a spell slot), or more efficiently is to sacrifice the very life essence or soul of someone into it. You do not know if it is possible for someone to be resurrected when they have died in this way.
  • Souls of spellcaster could be fueling this
  • Attuning to the Spellcrux: it is a long process, takes an entire day. there are also some prerequisites. The pre-req: 1- You must have at your disposal some thing of sentimental value to you,  2- have to be a psellcaster of considerable power to even use the power of the spellcrux and tarined in magic (you have to be a spellcaster of 5th leve or higher to attune to it)  3- this spellcrux was created with the knowledge of aleph language primeval so you need to learn that language or at least a rudiment of a rudiment of it  ''the 8 words that represent the 8 classical school of magic'',
    Once these 3 things are done you can attempt to attune, it tales a whole day, you must keep touching it all day and first you need to present the sentimental value at reguarl interval you present the item, then you speak one of the word of the school  of magic and cast a spell of that school in the spellcrux using the sentimental value object as focus. Then at the end u must make a power of will 'check'  to see ifyou are able to attund and consequences are dire if you fail. but if you succeed you will be attuned to the spellcrux.
  • arcanas undare (or first lore): - the spellcrux has this own idiosyncracies - people can imbue with evocation school and if they overloead it with too many spells of that school, the use of the language primeval has been no fully compatbiel with this school... so it's not safe (??). The spellcrux would react violently, so it's possible the spellcrux would be destroyed but probably everyone else in the vicinity would be probably suffering some consequence.
  • there is no known way to destroy the spellcrux safely , one would need to study the arcanas undare
  • it is not known what happens to ppl attuned to the artifact if it's destroyed while they're attuned to it
  • the spellcrux is like a magnet can absorb magic into itself even if not directly cast on it. when done in that way, without physical contact, the spellcrux wouldn't store that magical power though, you d have to be in physical contact to do so.
  • a soul of a spellcaster is much much more energy boost than casting spells - - - it does : takes all the spell slots levels of a spellcaster and adds them up and multiply by the spelccasting class level of the spellcaster , that is how much worth it is. so it's much faster than doing that and you can do multiple students at a time.
  • they never tried to rez cause they never cared to try.
  • it is unknown if even wish would bring them  back, but potentially not, it depends what happens to their soul once it's transferred to the artifact - is it sent to the afterlife or is it consumed.  ''you cannot create something from nothing''  maybe if the artifact was destroyed  but not even clear on that.
  • arcanus fundare
  • you need to be attuned to it to store spells in it and use it.
  • When attuned to it : the spellcrux isnt created by the academy it,s created by the Sisters so the members of the academy of magic arent 100% knowledgeable on everything it can do. so the sisters know more info than them.
  • metamagic options
  • another property not obtained from identify spell is: rather than sust recovering spell slots - you can also obtain a spell from the spellcrux that was stored into it and you could use it. 'powerful spell storing item that cna be done from anywhere', theyve only be able to store items of 5th levels and lower in this way.  and it requires an action to do it and have to be cast within 24h of gaining it and you can only have one at a time in this way. this can be  done from anywhere without touching it as long as youre attuned.
  • the attuned ppl have a sense of the physical location of the spellcrux and know its status. they cant know who is attuned to it, and they dont know if there's a deeper conecction and you potentially cant know how many ppl are using it aside from deducting on the amount of stroing and using that is being done.
  • the soul must be attached to the body so the students would need to be alive.

First Lore/Arcanus fundare is one in the greater collection being the 5 lores. but they go by many different names, for ppl in the accademy theyve called them the 5 lores for various reasons, but other scholars have dfiferent names fro them. other names: the Golden skins of the world serpent or  a single name : The Nether Scrolls


Goal of the Academy of Magic is and goal with it is:

It was created by the Sisters (Hags?) and was done so by using the knowledge passed down from the elders in their ancient tongue as written in the first lore which contains the very fundamentals of magic and perhaps existence as whole. This ancient tongue is the Elder Tongue, in the elder tongue the language primeval is referred to as Aleph, other passages call them the words of creation, or Aleph or the Language Primeval: the language that spoke the multiverse into being.
 
Zoramadria and Headmistress Lash are attuned to it.
 
 
In 1494, the Spellcrux was found by Tiffany Silverhand in the Archmanteion of the Academy of Magic.