Ancient Cylinder

Origins: Zordin
Alignment: Messenger
Start with: Ancient Cylinder (Artifact), Antediluvian language

You’ve found, and become strangely connected to, an artifact from the Shattered Planet: an ancient cylinder, about 6 feet (2 meters) long and as wide around as a strong arm, and made of an unfathomably lightweight material, like soap-foam made solid. Antediluvian-speaker. You speak the language of the ancient ones.

The Cylinder

CARRY Back WIELD 2H GUARD +1 active

Wield the cylinder much like an oversized staff or mace.Psychic damage. The artifact inflicts no life damage. Instead, a foe struck by the ancient cylinder is seized by a physically harmless but intensely vivid vision of deformed Kananite children in a rectangular pond or harbor, laughing maniacally and attacking one another with similar artifacts.

On any hit, this flashing vision inflicts -1 grace and -1 awareness.
On a lethal hit, inflict -2 grace and -2 awareness.
The artifact is harmless to structures and can’t inflict life damage.

A foe who is smacked enough by the artifact—to the point of suffering spirit or strength damage from the excess—feels like they are drowning.Indestructable. When cut or otherwise damaged, light seeps out from damaged material and coalesces into more foam, repairing the cylinder instantly. If you lose the cylinder, it gradually dissolves in the air and soon reforms by your side.Mace synergy. If you know the ✪Staggering Smash ability from The Mace lore, you can use that ability with the ancient cylinder to inflict extra grace damage, though the cylinder can’t break anything. (Although the cylinder is far lighter than the mace, swinging one feels a lot like swinging the other—and the Rephaim seems to channel the force of your swings.)

Mace synergy. If you know the ✪Staggering Smash ability from The Mace lore, you can use that ability with the ancient cylinder to inflict extra grace damage, though the cylinder can’t break anything. (Although the cylinder is far lighter than the mace, swinging one feels a lot like swinging the other—and the Rephaim seems to channel the force of your swings.)

Starting Ability

✪ Buoyancy

While you sit astride the cylinder and grip it with both hands, you float in mid-air. You can’t float up or down while astride the cylinder, but you can kick your legs to drift laterally, as if you’re moving across an invisible, imperceptible surface of water. Limited mobility. You can’t Evade, Outflank, Rush, or Stand Fast while hovering on the cylinder. Losing buoyancy. If your grace is reduced to zero while buoyant, you’re knocked off balance and fall unceremoniously to the ground. But as long as you have two free hands, you can cling to the cylinder to slow your descent and avoid taking fall damage. Weight limit. The cylinder can only carry your weight, along with your packed and carried belongings. If you try to tow another character or a particularly heavy object on the cylinder, it sinks.Jump-Attacking from the cylinder. Once airborne and on high, you can Jump-Attack a foe below you, either with the cylinder itself (which doesn’t inflict life damage) or with your body or feet. Either way, the cylinder’s buoyancy can’t save you from fall damage if you miss your Jump-Attack.

Abilities to Learn

✪ Secrets of the Ancient Water

Mark of AWARENESS

You gain 3 revelations distributed as you like among the following lore, but not more than 2 for any single lore. Dance, Death, Dream, The Mace, Time Additionally, while holding the cylinder, you can take -1 awareness to cast ༄Deluge, as long as there’s heavy rain or a body of water nearby.

༄ Deluge

You gather water into a wide wave that you send surging at your foes. You can send the deluge in one direction, or outward from a circular boundary, like a ripple in a pond. The deluge floods rooms, compartments, and caves in its path: Brace with Compel advantage against all characters standing in the deluge’s path. If you beat their strength, you inflict –3 grace and –1 awareness.

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