An oversized crown
Minor arcanum #63
A circlet of black, glossy metal set with eight spires of aetherium. It’s sized for a head maybe twice as large as yours, and is always a bit chill to the touch. Even cast into the hottest furnace, it will not melt nor even heat.
When you touch the crown with bare flesh and open your mind, you can speak to the primordial spirit to which the crown is attuned. But to fully unlock the mysteries of this crown, you must…
Requirements
- ☐ …risk your sense of self as you commune with this spirit of the void.
- ☐ …learn the Words of Being, which will force the spirit to manifest.
- ☐ …learn the Words of Unbeing, which will send the spirit home.
- ☐ …convince the spirit to manifest and then successfully dismiss it.
The rest is discovered in play. Every arcanum has a hidden back — what it becomes, what it wants, what it costs. That’s for your table to find out, so it isn’t published here.
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Put it in a player’s hands
The app deals arcana face-down; the GM flips them when the fiction says so.