Ripping a soul from a person and planting it within a crystal is considered by many to be an utterly evil act. This resulting Soul Gem is incredibly powerful and can power many alchemical and arcane abilities. Soul Gems can also be used to cheat death. A few sages have discovered the ancient secret of locking your soul into a crystal matrix where the sage can still observe and communicate with the world after death. Whether through design or necessity, these fist-sized crystal matrices always take the form of platonic solids, leading to the unoriginal name of calling them platonic gems. The sages within these gems cannot directly interact with the

The divine beings rarely speak to the mortal realm, preferring to remain in their heavens for a variety of reasons. Often it is pride and arrogance, not wishing to debase themselves to speak to mortals; and other times it is to protect the mortals from being exposed to their awesome divine might and being driven mad at the very sight of a god. Whatever the reason, it often falls to angels to deliver news to the mortal realms, whether it be good or bad news. Messenger Angels are an extension of their divine creator. Partly sentient, partly independent, partly divine. Like a shard chipped off from a greater crystal, they bear

It is a rather innocuous looking thing, seeming nothing more than a trinket carved out of black onyx chalcedony to resemble a lotus flower. However, it is one of the most sought after and hunted artefacts, especially by magic users and treasure hunters. For all its deceptive beauty, the Onyx Lotus is immensely powerful, granting its owner a significant (if temporary) boost in magical power. This can be used in emergency situations to save a warlock from certain death; or it can be used to magnify a mage’s power to near godhood for a short period of time; or even used to protect a wizard in his magical experiments. In whatever

We often say that plants are unfeeling and unthinking, and for the most part, this is true. Treants are the exception to the rule. Having gained sentience through some miracle that not even they are aware of, Treants are trees that can think, speak, and move as humans do. All of this is on a much slower scale, however. Trees, and thus Treants, can live for centuries, growing ever so slowly to reach their mature ages. A Treant’s thoughts and movements are as glacial as its growth, and they prefer the slow quietness of the wilderness to the quick chaotic mess that is civilised life. Combat 40 Social 35 Explore 50

The right to rule can only ever be legitimised by divine ordination. Power ultimately comes from the divine, and those who wield this divine right has absolute power within their realm. In many cases, this divine right is shown through an icon of power and the symbol of authority. In some cases, it is an orb to symbolise rule over the world, in other cases a sceptre to show magisterial power, but in most cases, it is a sword to show that the divine right to rule is carried out by strength of arm. Those who wield these icons of powers, the Kingsblades, have absolute power within their realm to direct