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We're still so very much in the Dawn Age of the world. What we do will become Legend and Story... what is our legacy as Gods going to be? 

Creative Challenge for the group: in lieu of Majora's mask, the Daedric Artifacts, the ring of Suaron, that sort of jazz, what sort object would your God pour their power into, either as blessing or curse, and what powers would it bestow?
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While I think the legacy question has popped up a few times already, and is actively being explored by several stories anyway, I'll take a spare moment to meddle with that other question.

It's unlikely that Jvan would create an artefact to pass on power if it was at all possible to add that same power to the individual's body itself. Even if a transfer needed to occur, she'd design it into a symbiote, or parasite. Despite this, she- or, more accurately, [i]Chiral Phi-[/i] has actually done this.

Time for a little exposition on halos!

A halo is a structure made of durable semiorganic Fae metal. Like a virus, it is not alive, and is inert on its own. However, it activates when integrated with a Sculptor's telepathic signals, and draws energy required to levitate and function from their blood sugar. Some actually fuse with the Sculptor to make the transfer easier. Old Walker has one such halo in their neck.

What a halo actually [i]is[/i] is a one-way teleportation device. The hollows and gaps in the structure frame a spacial rift that yearns to be filled- Surrounding air is constantly teleporting into the halo and escaping through the hollows. The portal 'suction', however, can be focused by the Sculptor, and naturally homes in on nearby regions of high energy- That is, warm, rapidly moving, or magically charged fluids.

This means that the non-solid, powerful body of a Djinni, Realta, change-eater, or lich(?) within range can be drained away from them and into the hollow halo by a Sculptor; said fluid rapidly and continuously escapes the device to be chilled and depressurised by faeries. Solids are typically too low-energy to be accurately focused on, and would clog the halo's vents, so it's an inaccurate single-use weapon at best against solid creatures. Otherwise, the siphoning process is not instant, but it is fast and quite painful. Souls cannot pass through the rift.

So from a narrative perspective, it fills the offensive niche faeries occupy defensively- if one does want to fight a Sculptor, they need to do it by hand, with a corporeal body, like a man.

Why does Phi have a stake in protecting mortals? We'll find out soon enough.[/quote]
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