Dear Cass Maren, Your questions do intrigue me so. I must admit you have asked one that is very much at the heart of my interests.
Magical Artefacts in Ronga, or even Palurin, as is my understanding, are most certainly hard to come by. You have your typical “Holy Relics”, which most priests, druids, or monks will not be parted with – of course to give you an example, bark scraped from the tree at West Tree where the druids there believe it is Sildra, the First Tree, Mother of Life. Or perhaps the Holy Fires of Hellin, the very forge of the Smith, who some believe resides deep beneath the City of Dinaf. But as for their magical properties, none can say for they lay out of the reach of anyone so learned in the magical arts. I myself, being from Fernac, have been fortunate enough to have been educated in the universities of the Elves, and I have known a thing or three about magic and their artefacts, despite not having the gumption to muster any ability for it.
Magic, itself, is treated as an element to the user, it is of finite source but also of infinite power. No one user can ever deplete a Source, though it is known in stories that Sources can in fact become depleted. The first known finding of a Source by a “modern” race was of course by the Elves, beneath the Augury Mountains in Fernac. The Sources revealed to them came as giant monoliths, carved of stone and light, and from them came the powers of the Elves, and later on the Men. It is speculated that the Dwarves may have been the initial craftsmen, but no one alive has ever been able to prove or disprove this theory. Much to the disappoint of the Dwarves, and the humours of the Elves.
Though it is intriguing to note that many Standing Stones and in fact Stone Circles are believed to have once been sources, but now lay dormant throughout the countrysides and towns, as remnants from a time before. But I digress, as I am partial to do. Your enquiry is about Magical Artefacts, and know this – I myself have only seen two that one might carry upon one’s person. And they were the Staff of the Archmage; Chief among the Powers of Fernac, and the second was a sword said to have been torn from the earth by lightning, and infused with power from the world beyond. It was wielded by a true immortal, and currently resides upon the mantle behind me, though I am merely its guardian for the time being. I shall not write of its name for you will know it in time, that I am certain of. But for now I remain your humble scholar, The Chronicler of Farcliff
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