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A skyjewel is a palm-sized orb of some cool, glassy substance, translucent and shifting colour from inky black to midnight violet and deepest indigo, flecked with tiny silvery pinpoints.
Not only does the orb evoke the night sky, take it in one's hands and whisper the thought and a vista of the void and the worlds beyond the world unfolds in the air (or is it in the mind's eye, sometimes?) -- the shifting placement of stars and constellations and burning comets, drifting luminescent nebulae and the worlds themselves. One singular planet-light is always marked with a shining sigil, regardless of any other identifiers, known or unknown; it is marking the world the orb rests on, or ...?
The skyjewel in fact belongs to a larger artifice called a voidsleight, among other names, most commonly encountered on the ground as a matched and strangely magic-linked armour and armament. It is meant to socket into a nearly insectile carapace of completely enveloping, cunningly-jointed armour of unearthly-enamelled alloy and steelsilk lining; not only will the orb project its vista inside the armour's blank black-glass visor, it powers the carapace and allows for breath and survival in hostile terrain -- specifically the void between worlds.
For its own part, the armour of the voidsleight is crafted of a piece with one or more great weapons -- massive claymores and baroque polearms and strange bolt-casters are most common -- and that weapon or weapons is called a "skimmer" or "glider" no matter its shape. A strange name, until its bearer commands it: then it unfolds and reshapes itself into a strange sleek frame, angular and winged with a single seat on its scaffold-like frame, capable of carrying its armour-enveloped master and some small essentials across the land, through the air, or across the void of space itself (though, let's be truthful, it will not be the most comfortable of long voyages).
[in the barest of game terms, consider the carapace as heavy armour that encumbers as light armour and has a minor bonus to its protection, like +1 AC in many OSR systems; give similar to the glider. with the skyjewel, add the environmental/sealed protection + the vehicle form of the glider, and an extra +1 or an elemental resistance.]
[but basically any system you like, lol]
Not only does the orb evoke the night sky, take it in one's hands and whisper the thought and a vista of the void and the worlds beyond the world unfolds in the air (or is it in the mind's eye, sometimes?) -- the shifting placement of stars and constellations and burning comets, drifting luminescent nebulae and the worlds themselves. One singular planet-light is always marked with a shining sigil, regardless of any other identifiers, known or unknown; it is marking the world the orb rests on, or ...?
The skyjewel in fact belongs to a larger artifice called a voidsleight, among other names, most commonly encountered on the ground as a matched and strangely magic-linked armour and armament. It is meant to socket into a nearly insectile carapace of completely enveloping, cunningly-jointed armour of unearthly-enamelled alloy and steelsilk lining; not only will the orb project its vista inside the armour's blank black-glass visor, it powers the carapace and allows for breath and survival in hostile terrain -- specifically the void between worlds.
For its own part, the armour of the voidsleight is crafted of a piece with one or more great weapons -- massive claymores and baroque polearms and strange bolt-casters are most common -- and that weapon or weapons is called a "skimmer" or "glider" no matter its shape. A strange name, until its bearer commands it: then it unfolds and reshapes itself into a strange sleek frame, angular and winged with a single seat on its scaffold-like frame, capable of carrying its armour-enveloped master and some small essentials across the land, through the air, or across the void of space itself (though, let's be truthful, it will not be the most comfortable of long voyages).
[in the barest of game terms, consider the carapace as heavy armour that encumbers as light armour and has a minor bonus to its protection, like +1 AC in many OSR systems; give similar to the glider. with the skyjewel, add the environmental/sealed protection + the vehicle form of the glider, and an extra +1 or an elemental resistance.]
[but basically any system you like, lol]
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