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"Altar of the Mimic" lore and map
🕑 Added 2022-09-29 17:53:35 +0000 UTCHello everyone π .
Today I'm offering you a slightly different work more than a map it's a mix between a monster and a place.
"Altar of the Mimic" is a pedestal lost in a wilderness area or in abandoned ruins. When you approach it, all you see is a large, richly decorated chest on top of a pedestal, several weapons are planted in the wood of the chest and strange purple flowers and roots grow along the broken rocks.
History of the world from "Les Γ©ditions du Blanc-seing
"Under the dictation of Arven De Pont-d'Orin, Archmage.
Transcription by the pen of the adept Isodore apprentice of 3rd year."
"Mimics are strange creatures and no one really knows what their origins are anymore. However, the archmages of the Aufsort conservatory believe that their births are of human origin...
A long time ago, spells had the unfortunate tendency to be more "direct". Less precise certainly, but much more durable and powerful. These incantations were then closer to a war cry than a poetic ballad. The council's experts therefore believe that mimics were born as a result of the countless attempts by wizards to protect their chests and wealth.
The first mimics were discovered in remote and inhospitable areas. Chests long forgotten by their owners in the high grass desert, the depths of the great continental sea or the frozen expanses of Jormerun.
Even though the magicians who enchanted the wood and locks of these chests have been dead for many years, the spell still remains. When a spell is cast, there is nothing to prevent it from lasting as long as the energy, the mana that fuels it, is sufficient. However, these enchantments should have naturally faded away... but this was not the case. It is estimated that, in order to continue to fulfill its ultimate goal of protection, the spell evolved on its own. Chests, closets, purses, and cupboards began to search for any available mana. The wizards' hands were no longer there to feed them energy, so these objects became teeth, fangs and claws to hunt for the magic they needed to survive.
The more they eat, the safer they are. The safer they are, the more dangerous they become.
NB: The Scorpian Archpriest claims to have observed during his campaigns in the far west, mimics that can grow to the size of small hills or even replace entire cottages. He assures to have detected in certain individuals of big sizes, social behaviors, an organization of pack and a clear intelligence. "
Arven De Pont-d'Orin, Archmage of the third tower of the conservatory. Under the direction of the scholar Zar Igza.
Extract of the hungry grimoire, private collection.
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