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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1854565" data-attributes="member: 63">Only a few artifacts showed up in the last game I ran.  *sheepish grin*Okay, so 4 artifacts is a bit much, but it was basically the fantasy equivalent of World War II.The Torch of the Burning Sky.  A torch carved from a mighty demon's thighbone, infused with the essence of an angel's fury, and the dreams of a tortured dragon child, this artifact could only be activated by using it to crush the skull of a living person, consuming their soul.  Flames would be crackle atop the torch, and if the wielder desired, he could call forth a firestorm to strike his enemies, or a pillar of fire to lift up anyone in his line of sight, teleporting them to anywhere in the world where the sun shined.The Torch could only be used during the day, but that was never much of a problem.  An immortal half-Orc emperor used it to lead his armies across the world, conquering every land that opposed him.  Today, the Torch is hidden somewhere in a secret tomb, behind countless defenses, to make sure no one can ever conquer the world again. The Aquiline Heart.  A giant heart, ripped from the chest of an eagle that was hundreds of feet long, the Aquiline Heart is said to grant immortality to anyone who drinks the blood still pumping from it.  It used to belong to the Stormchaser Eagle, a nearly god-like creature that helped shape the primordial world, but was then slain by one of its counterparts, the Flameset Dragon, who bit out the heart and hid it in the depths of the earth.  It is also said, however, that if the rest of the heart is eaten, the world will end.The Aquiline Heart actually doesn't make you immortal.  It does have miraculous healing powers, which will grant you regenerative powers for a year, but its main power is harnessing magic.  The myth of immortality was created because the cave in which the heart was hidden was home to the psychic incarnation of time.  Thus, anyone drinking heartsblood would become timeless - unaging, and impossible to kill.  They could only die if they were devoured by a dragon, or if someone drank the blood from their heart.  The latter act, however, turns the blood drinker into something like a vampire, who turns into snakes instead of bats and rats. The other two are even more complicated, and very setting dependent.</blockquote>

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