Tag: Mask
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Sakha 384 of the Shifting Pelt Veil
Lore Across the windswept tundra and mist-choked river basins of the northern island nations, nomadic oloyons learned that traveling between hostile settlements or journeying into spirit realms required slipping past watchful eyes unnoticed. To walk among foreign clans, suspicious frontier garrisons, and wild beasts without inciting alarm, shamans crafted light veil-masks woven from winter hare…
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Qigong 309 of the Veiled Breath
Lore: Developed in the shadowed tea houses and shifting trade courts of the River Silt Delta, this subtle focus was perfected by the False-Heart Ascetics—infiltrators who practiced the art of the hollowed pulse. Believing that truth and deception were merely differences in the temperature and rhythm of vital energy, they devised exercises to conceal their…
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Myth 41 of the Painted Grace
Lore: Across bustling bathhouses, royal dressing suites, and dusty traveling caravans, cosmeticians and courtly valets share a persistent superstition: “The face you show the sun is merely clay, but the face painted with patience commands the eye of kings.” Folk belief insists that beauty is not an accident of birth, but an intentional defense against…
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Noaidi 108 of the Motley Wight Rattle
Lore: In the grand feasting halls of the island sovereigns across Saṃsāra, court jesters and satirists were often seen merely as harmless fools in bright rags, but the cleverest among them were trained noaidi wanderers. These wandering fools communed with the čáhppes-vuoigna—the capricious wind and trickster wights that dwell in drafty throne rooms, hollow floorboards,…
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Mask of the Timeless Luminary Vanguard 9410
Lore: Forged through a masterwork convergence of five disparate relic traditions, this artifact unites ancient beast-lore, historical chronomancy, secretive illusion craft, extradimensional weaving, and insectoid affinity resonance. It originated when an envoy of the high monarchies sought an instrument capable of unifying fractured factions during the continental resource wars. Scribes, enchanters, and artificers bound the…
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Malagan 417 of the Master Sculptor
Lore Carved from dense riverine rosewood harvested from the mist-veiled inland valleys of Lapita, this ceremonial relief-mask was shaped during the final memorial rites of a legendary Malagan wood-sculptor. The artifact serves as a sacred vessel housing the artisan’s departed soul, capturing generations of sculptural techniques, grain-reading instincts, and spiritual relief-cutting mastery before their final…
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Malagan 608 of the Star Chart Navigator
Lore Carved from sun-bleached driftwood salvaged from the outer atolls of Lapita, this ceremonial mask was crafted during the mortuary rites of a master wayfinder and coastal cartographer. The artifact served as a sacred vessel to house the navigator’s departed soul, capturing a lifetime of astronomical sightings, reef soundings, and coastline mapping instincts before their…
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Malagan 932 of the Master Joiner
Lore Hewn from the dense heartwood of coastal ironwood along the outer reef lines of the island nation of Lapita, this artifact was shaped during an ancestral mortuary ceremony honoring a legendary communal carpenter. The intricate carving was created to serve as a sacred temporary vessel for the artisan’s spirit, preserving decades of woodworking knowledge,…
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Malagan 419 of the Master Timberwright
Lore Hewn from the dense heartwood of a storm-felled mangrove along the coastal edges of Lapita, this artifact was shaped during the funeral rite of a legendary master timberwright. The mortuary carving was commissioned to hold the lingering soul of the artisan, preserving his lifetime of structural knowledge, wood-grain intuition, and joinery mastery before his…
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Malagan 783 of the Ancestral Revel
Lore Crafted from porous coastal ironwood and stained with mineral pigments and crushed volcanic ochre, this artifact was shaped during an ancestral mortuary feast along the outer shores of the island nation of Lapita. Traditional woodcarvers etched the mask to serve as a temporary vessel for departed village celebrants, giving lingering spirits a joyous haven…
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Shugendo 207 of the Mask of the Listening Heart
Lore: The yamabushi known as Jin was, in his life before the mountain, a reclusive scholar. His world was one of scrolls and ink, and he understood the hearts of men only through the stories he read, finding their living counterparts to be loud, confusing, and distant. Seeking to quiet the world, he retreated to…
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Malagan 72 of the Nest Seers Oath
Rarity: CommonTier: 1Roleplay Emphasis: Egg CandlerSlot: Face (Mask) — Lore: From the whispering rookeries above the Cliff-Coils of Yentara, it is told that a young avian-tender once pleaded to the ancestral spirits for help in saving a clutch of wind-shaken sky-eggs. The old prayers were hewn into driftwood, lacquered with yolk-resin, and set beside a…
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Mantle Mask Loaf Ensemble 912
Merged Items: Zephyrs Mantle, Mask of Eternal Roles, and Loafers 23 of Calculated Steps Lore: Legend says Zephyrus Windborne, the actuary-mage Aethrik of the Enclave, and High Priestess Thespia once met atop the Sky-Spire to weave wind, number, and story into a single vestment for the first Speaker of Horizons. The artifact—part cloak, part theatre-mask,…