Tag: Monastic

  • Resonant Stylus of the Final Word 341

    From: Lineage 813 of the Tide Forged Scholarchs Disguised as a tool of her trade, this weapon appears to be an oversized, ornate calligraphy stylus used for inscribing Vo-Run onto stone tablets or metal plates. It is a foot-long rod of polished, solid obsidian with a grip wrapped in silver wire. The tip, however, is…

  • TCM 820 of the Tinderbox of the Inner Spark

    Lore The wandering healers and herbalists of Saṃsāra often travel through harsh, unforgiving environments where a warm fire can mean the difference between life and death. Lacking the brute strength of adventurers, they developed a method of fire-starting that relied not on friction or flint, but on the principles of internal balance. They created small…

  • TCM 606 of the Talisman of the Empty Breath

    Lore When souls from a monastic warrior tradition were reincarnated on Saṃsāra, they brought with them two things: the philosophy of internal balance and the discipline of the firearm. They found that the recoil of an alchemical firearm could disrupt one’s Qi, and the smoke could cloud the “Mind’s Eye.” To counteract this, their herbalist-monks…