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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 1419328" data-attributes="member: 11697">*grin* That would be The Shadow Sorcelled Key, supposedly capable of opening up all of the lower planar portals within the (then) Prime Ward of Sigil (now the Lower Ward).Sadly the artifact is lost or destroyed, and aside from legends that sprang up in the aftermath of the Clueless Rebellion there's no evidence to suggest that it ever existed.... however... that hasn't stopped me from using it in my own campaign, and I've not actually restricted it to just lower planar portals or even portals in that one ward. It functions something like a universal portal key, but the recovery of it and having it brought back into Sigil set off a Cagequake something fierce as presumably The Lady was not pleased at this act. In fact the three occasions that the key has been used it triggered a ward specific Cagequake. Those using the key recalled the person holding it back from Sigil and gave them a lesson in misuse of power. They sent them back into Sigil missing an arm and an eye (that took nearly a month to regenerate).I've also given the key a decent background IMC, such as who made it, why, etc:A bit of fluff text from that:“It was the tool of our rebellion. Packed like sheep, penned, sequestered and oppressed, it was given to us unasked. But we took it anyways. ‘If you have but the will to use it’ we were told, and greedily, headstrong and filled with righteous zeal we took it. ‘The choice is yours, do as thou wilt.’ Well, some gifts are best never taken!! The prime ward was razed! Fiends roamed the streets, slaughtering each other and any others they found. Many of our own died even as the hated Sodkillers and the Incanterium battled the swelling darkness we had unleashed upon the City and were slaughtered. It was ended only by the actions of Her Serenity… and our gift was taken back from our hands by he who granted it to us. As before, so again.”“The unity of rings fulfilled. From prime to prime it was a tool of death. A tool of chaos incarnate, a tool of brutal repression. Both extremes personified, reflected only in the hand of the one who had but to accept their gift, and turn it, unlocking the darkness within, and without.”“Our greed and our hatred prompted us to accept it. A means of salvation or revenge so terrible, but gift or not, ‘the choice was ours’ and we alone are to blame for the path of hells fury it has woven through the eons. The Shadow Sorcelled Key is a gift, it always is, and a tool, but one that uses the gifted…”</blockquote>

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