TheOmnimercurial
Dragon Bard
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How about a Throne that is self mobilising? The Throne walks and leaps and kicks to bear it's owner in peace and in war.
True but I figure if we're going to make a macelike weapon, we might as well just make a mace and leave the 'mace but once step removed' which is what a lot of scepters were, and was more trying to use examples that a lot of the polities just have outright weapons that are the symbols of their authority so scepters really aren't a thing I think in the setting so their being a symbol of rulership might not have taken off here and so it'd have less impact, especially in Norsca.
As for the enchantment thing, im not really that "concerned' but I wanted to bring up that example of people getting around something meant to detect them and wanted to get it in the thread ghestalt as something to counter or look into ways to prevent to clarify. The radius thing could help at least but this is also Norsca where the winds carry warpstone dust as well as dhar magic, so we'll need to make sure that it doesn't react to essentially background magical corruption.
It's not fascination, it's a matter of the world being a place where ornamental items don't really have as much priority as stuff that can either be used to keep you safe or use to make your enemies not living anymore. So your symbolic weapons also better be damn literal too
I wasn't saying that they don't exist but I was saying that the theme of them being an item of kings really hasn't taken off here due to said reasons and not really a long enough period of peace without conflict for the maces to become ceremonial and get strunk
True, not trying to say that making something for them is bad, just trying to make sure that what gets made is received the right way and has the right impact is all.
Eh, he's got a throne already, just a Norscan made one, and since he's trying to emphasize how much of a proper KING he is like Bjorn and taking more elements of southern rulership, i can see him commissioning one as another sign of his wealth and prestige.
If a Sceptre is a Mace, then how about it be a hollow Sphere like an ornate Metal Cage with an Asuryan Flame inside it that shines with Anti Daemon Hysh?
That way the Anti Chaos aspect is not by touch of metal to skin, but by proximity/touch of the Light.
Kind of a Hybrid of a Lantern and Mace.
To really tie with the Morning Star theme of Luthien, the aspect of the caged flame is Star like and the Metal Spherical Cage of Wire and Strips surrounding the Flame has Spikes upon it akin to the image and function of a Morning Star Mace.
If we use that stealth sheath enchantment on the Mace that can hide a long Blade in a short sheath, then we can make Sockets where each Spike is mounted, giving the Mace/Sceptre the ability to extend short spikes outwards into long spikes.
Or just go with one Space Expanded sheath socket, at the top of the sphere cage opposite the handle, so that the Mace can turn into a Sword.
Could maybe have the Hysh Flame be a captured Elemental if we learn from the Chorf?
If a Fire Elemental then the Hysh Magic is added to it to bind it to Asuryan.
If a Light Elemental then add Aqshy to it's Nature and bind it to Asuryan.
The Divine Flame can then not only harm chaos with it's light, but also super heat the Blade or Blades we have as Morningstar Spikes?
Chamon to add Wisdom and Learned outlooks, Logic etc?
I kind of imagine it as a swirling cage similar to an egg whisk head that has been twisted while molten, with spikes at the Compass Points or a single spike opposite the handle.
We could maybe give it the variable weight effect and a Ghur boost for strength/stamina.
