ITEMS · THE VALE
Starfire
An arcane staff capped with a knot of cold light that the Imperium's old Aether-scholars swore was a coal of the divine substance itself, caught before it ever cooled into matter. Whether they were right or simply the finest arcanists of a dead age, a caster who carries it draws on the raw arcane more easily, and the staff makes the drawing easy.
The Old Reckonings held that the Five Elements descend from Aether — the highest and most diffuse, the substrate from which everything else is supposed to flow — and that everything in the Vale is Aether gone cold and heavy by degrees. It is a demoted doctrine now, argued over by antiquarians more than believed, but the scholars who built Starfire believed it entirely, and they built the staff to prove it: a hanging mote of pale fire at its crown, turning slow, throwing a light with no warmth in it. Whether it truly is a scrap of the first substance or only the best casting the Old Reckonings' school ever managed, the College that keeps it argues forever — a shard of the first light, a wound in the world that leaks something through, a lamp for reading omens by — but they agree on what it does. It opens the caster straight to the raw arcane. Spells of the pure schools come quicker, cost less of the self, and land with the weight of something drawn from much further down than the caster could reach alone. The staff itself strikes with that same cold star-stuff when a fight closes to the haft. The Resonants would unmake a city to learn how the mote was caught; the College would rather no one learned at all.
KIND
relic
RARITY
legendary
FOUND AT
Caer Vallen
ITEM TYPE
weapon
Connected
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Type Fields
All Relationships (4)
hidden_in
- →Caer Vallen — Starfire was left on a Resonant's warded lectern in Caer Vallen, stood on its rod where the scholar had been reading by its cold light.
references
- →The Five Elements — The mote at the staff's crown is a drop of Aether caught before it ever cooled — the substrate from which all else flows — opening the caster straight to the raw arcane.
- ←The Wrights' Heirs — The Resonants would unmake a city to learn how the mote of uncooled Aether was caught at the head of the staff.
owns
- ←The Far College — The Listening College kept Starfire and would rather no one ever learned how it was caught — a lamp the Sworn Gods read by.
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