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  • Shadowsong Mirrorpicks 719

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    LoreIt is told in hushed tones that these tools were born when a rogue of the Shadowblood lineage dared fuse a mirror said to capture admiration with the lockpicks that whispered to shadows. In doing so, they did not merely create a set of thieving tools, but a relic that peers into hearts as deftly…

  • Kahuna 944 of the Ledgered Shells

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    LoreWhen the Veiled Wanderers first carried their bone-carved scrimshaw tools into the coastal courts, many scoffed at their obsession with order. Yet one Kahuna diplomat saw a deeper potential. By merging the empathic resonance of the Twin Shells with the precision of the Scrimshaw Set, a new artifact was forged: the Ledgered Shells. These artifacts…

  • Alchemical Field Assay Kit 113

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    From: Lineage 831 of Geode Vein This apparatus is the essential tool for Marn’s prospecting mission. It is a compact, heavily-built kit housed in a bronze-reinforced case made from the hardened hide of a basalt-carapaced beast. When opened, it unfolds to reveal a meticulously organized set of instruments for material analysis. The kit includes a…

  • Resonant Shackles of the Lashcap 150

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    From: Twistspore Lashcap 947 Description: Iron restraints etched with Lashcap spores pressed into the grooves. They hum faintly with each movement, like chains whispering. Effect (Positive): Prevents restrained targets from focusing, making it impossible to cast spells requiring verbal components. Prolonged wearing breaks willpower, making captives compliant. Effect (Negative): Those who use the shackles too…

  • Last Word of the Chime-Stone People 505

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    From: Whispercap Spore Bloom 713 Quest Giver: Professor Alistair Finch, a disheveled but brilliant xeno-linguist from the Royal Atheneum, finds the party at their lodgings. His study is a chaotic mess of scrolls, rubbing slates, and half-finished translations. He is animated by a discovery and speaks with the frantic energy of someone on the verge…

  • Ancestral Connection 44 of the Iron Grip

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    This item explores mature themes of control and manipulation. Lore In some of the oldest and most isolated island cultures of Saṃsāra, lineage is everything. Power is not just passed down; it’s hammered into the next generation. This bracer is not a treasured heirloom but a tool of indoctrination, one of many crafted to ensure…

  • Way of the Unchanging Form

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    This is the ancient and deeply ingrained belief system of the nomadic tribes of the Chellean Wastes, a vast, primordial landscape of windswept plateaus, rocky badlands, and sparse, hardy scrubland. The Chellean faith is severe, pragmatic, and unadorned, concerned not with an afterlife or moral codes, but with the pure, functional truth of survival and…

  • Wild 232 of The Chromatic Probes

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    Lore: These tools were born from the frustration of a breeder of racing griffons in Saṃsāra’s early days. This breeder, a man named Fenris, was a master of animal husbandry but a novice in magic. He grew tired of the sheer unpredictability of his craft; a pairing of two champion griffons could result in a…

  • Wild 404 of The Anarchists Almanac

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    Lore: The first of these books were created by accident. In a vast, steam-powered scriptorium in one of Saṃsāra’s capital cities, a magical printing press suffered a catastrophic failure. Its conduit, designed to channel pure knowledge from a master text onto thousands of blank pages, fractured. The subsequent wild magic surge didn’t destroy the machine;…

  • Wild 131 of The Flaw Finders Loupe

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    Lore: In a world where magic is defined by the perfection of its conduit, Wild Magic is seen as a catastrophic failure. But one eccentric gemcutter, a man named Kaelen who lived in a dusty workshop in one of Saṃsāra’s sprawling megacities, saw it differently. He believed that the flaws in a crystal were not…

  • Vodou 919 of the Barons Tasting Cup

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    Lore: Among the first souls to arrive in Saṃsāra from the world known as Earth were practitioners of the Vodou faith from Haiti. One such soul was a revered Manbo named Celestine, whose specialty was not in crafting charms for love or war, but in healing the afflictions of the belly and spirit. In her…

  • Vodou 802 of the Gedes Garden Trowel

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    Lore: In the early centuries after the first souls began arriving on Saṃsāra, a small community of people from a place called Haiti materialized on a temperate, jungle-fringed island in the southern archipelago. They brought with them a deep connection to the spirits they served, the Lwa, and a reverence for their ancestors. One of…

  • Turkish Tesbih 369 of the Tinker

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    Lore In the grand metropolis of Al-Makina, a city renowned for its clockwork towers and steam-powered industry, there lived a master artisan named Usta Osman. He was a man of two worlds: his hands understood the precise language of gears and springs, but his heart understood the old folk magic. He believed that every complex…

  • Tupilak 717 of Knucklebones of Whispering Spirit

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    Lore: The first Tunguska shamans on Saṃsāra learned quickly that the world was thick with spirits. While some bound powerful, angry spirits into constructs of vengeance, others pursued a quieter path. They discovered that lesser, more curious spirits—the spirits of flowing water, of the north wind, of clever foxes—could be coaxed into small, inanimate objects.…

  • Tunguska 620 of the Weaver of Whispers

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    Lore: When avatars from the Tunguska traditions found themselves not in the great wild taiga but in the sprawling, bureaucratic cities of Saṃsāra, they had to adapt their magic to survive. They discovered that the spirits were not just in the trees and the rivers, but that a faint, lesser spirit—an echo of intent and…

  • Tunguska 411 of the Whisper Bark Axe

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    Lore: When the first souls found themselves in the vast, ancient forests of Saṃsāra, they quickly learned that the trees were more than just wood. Each possessed a spirit, and the forest itself had a great, slumbering consciousness. The traditions of Tunguska shamanism, which focused on communicating with natural forces, proved essential for survival. These…

  • Traditional 2876 of the Nazar Fishers Reed

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    Tier 1 • Common rarity • Slot: Two‑hand Tool (counts as one worn item when slung across the back) • Cost: 12 Silver, or 6 Nickel and 6 Silver • Weight: 2 lb • Length: 7 ft DescriptionA supple river‑reed rod harvested from the oases of the Karakum analogue. Its joints are wrapped in indigo goat‑gut thread; between each wrap a blue‑glass evil‑eye bead sits in amber resin, their concentric rings…

  • TCM 909 of the Needles of an Unbroken Current

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    Lore The armies of the Jade Principality do not rely solely on armor and steel. Every soldier is trained in the basics of battlefield medicine, and every platoon has a medic equipped with a set of these specialized needles. Developed by the Imperial College of Healers, these are not tools for curing long-term illness, but…

  • TCM 820 of the Tinderbox of the Inner Spark

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    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…

  • Sorcery 59 of the Scrimshaw Flask of Barbed Regret

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    Lore: The people of the Mist-Bound Atolls were not conquerors. For centuries, their shores were raided by more powerful seafaring clans. Unable to always match their aggressors in strength of arms or numbers, their spirit-binders turned to a different kind of warfare, one rooted in their philosophy of cyclical pain: any injury given must be…

  • Sorcery 34 of the Spiteful Honing Coral

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    Lore: On the jagged, volcanic islands of the Ka’avara Chain, honor is a complex and often bloody affair. The ancient warrior clans who inhabit these isles believe that a simple death in combat is an insufficient conclusion to a feud. A true victory, they preach, is one where the enemy’s spirit is as wounded as…

  • Shugendo 429 of the Thorns of Mountain Rose

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    Lore: On the southern slopes of Mount Yoshino, a place renowned for its impossible blankets of cherry blossoms, there lived a woman named Chiyo. Before she walked the ascetic’s path, Chiyo was an embroiderer of unparalleled skill in her village, her stitches so fine they were said to be invisible. When a great sadness led…

  • Seiðr 42 of the Mortar of Mystic Grinds

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    Slot: Carried Lore: In the deep, magically-saturated jungles of the southern isles, there are communities that live in symbiosis with the strange and potent flora. The veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is thin there, and many of the plants possess powerful psychoactive properties. The early shamans of these communities learned that consuming these…

  • Seiðr 12 of the Horn of Intangible Draughts

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    Slot: Held / Belt Lore: Among the early communities of avatars on Saṃsāra, there was a settlement famed for its great mead halls and the wisdom of its seer, a völva named Gudrun. She found that the potent, honey-sweet mead they brewed helped quiet the conscious mind, making it easier for the spirit to travel…

  • Sakha 218 of the Deep Chant

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    NAME: The Oloyon’s Delving Gauntlets LORE: The shamans of the Sakha218 clans hold that the Middle World is not merely a surface upon which people walk, but a deep, layered vessel of history and spirit. While many oloyons journeyed up to the sky-realms or down to the worlds of shadow, there was one named Borso…

  • Sakha 734 of the Spirit Spoon

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    NAME: Oloyon’s Tasting Spoon LORE: In the sprawling Taiga of the northern islands, the clans of the Sakha734 learned that not all battles are fought with steel or overt magic. They understood that the body is a vessel and that the spirits of the world, both benevolent and malevolent, could influence them through what they…

  • Reflecting 8 of the Unmaking Pauldrons

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    Slot: Shoulders Tags: Reflecting Magic, Demolition, Utility, Tool, Worn Item, Common, Tier 1, Knock-back, Engineering, Mining, Area of Effect, Concussive, Force, Industrial, Structural, Heavy Lore: In the ever-expanding, vertically-stacked cities of Saṃsāra, creation is only half the battle; demolition is the other. The Demolition and Quarrying Guild needed a tool more precise and less volatile…

  • Reflecting 1 of the Inquisitors Lens

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    Slot: Held (Tool) Tags: Reflecting Magic, Deduction, Investigation, Utility, Tool, Common, Tier 1, Forensic, Informational, Analysis, Revealing, Non-combat, Law, Sensory, Handheld Lore: True Reflecting Magic is a warrior’s art, chaotic and destructive. But in the great city of Valdris, where political intrigue and murder are as common as the steam rising from the vents, the…

  • Qigong 19 of The Needles of Lifes Pattern

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    Lore Among the first souls to arrive on Saṃsāra was a woman named Elara, who in a past life had been a physician on a world where medicine was a science of the unseen. Stranded in a new reality without her familiar tools, she became obsessed with understanding the fundamental nature of life and disease.…

  • Qigong 4 of The Lens of Clear Intent

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    Lore In the early days of the great port city of Samudra, the flow of goods and souls from the 73 island nations was a chaotic torrent. The first customs inspectors were overworked and often relied on crude intimidation. Among them was an old avatar named Kai, a quiet man who had been a scroll-keeper…