RE: The Grand OC! [CONTEST XXIII: ANGLE!]
07-09-2014, 12:10 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-09-2014, 12:20 AM by Jacquerel.)
Name: The Radiant Oct
Race: Celestial Artifact(s)
Gender: Omnipotent Pie Chart Segments
Color: A shade of gold, fortunately legible against a white background
Description:
Fully assembled, the Radiant Oct is a golden disc approximately 3 feet in diameter. It constantly radiates light of an easily predictable colour, and its presence is always accompanied by a faint but pleasing hint of choral music. Left to its own devices, the Oct is content to maintain a fixed position several feet above the ground, after first rising to occupy what it judges to be the most dramatically appropriate position. At rest it will constantly spin on its own axis and completes a full rotation just a little less than once per minute.
While technically composed of eight identically shaped parts, the seams are so close as to be impossible to detect, despite (or perhaps because of) its intricate and elaborate carvings. The design is said to depict the sun rising (or possibly setting) over the legendary kingdom of Altreign and all 24 of its goddesses, many of whose names have been forgotten over the years. Ancient script around its circumference is assumed to be instructions as to its use, but the method of translation has also been lost to time.
Historical record insists that if separated from the whole, each piece would immediately become totally blank, obscuring the carvings entirely. Further accounts claim that it is only then that its text becomes legible, though only to its chosen bearer. These accounts do not go quite so far as to reveal what it is the writing actually says.
Abilities:
The Radiant Oct is the most sacred of relics, containing the very power of the gods themselves. The story goes that it was left behind in the land of Altreign so that its inhabitants could better handle their own affairs after the gods got tired of answering prayers, performing miracles, and personally micromanaging their worshippers' lives and instead went off to do something more interesting.
Each individual "Octangle" (as the individual pieces are known) comprising the disc perfectly embodies one of the eight Altreignic Virtues, though nobody can quite remember what those actually are. In the dark years following the first appearance of the Oct and disappearance of the Gods, these golden segments would travel with wills of their own across the kingdom, designating those who they judged to best demonstrate their individual virtues as their champions and in some way encouraging them to gather together the remaining pieces, be it through friendship or conquest.
Each champion was marked by a holy symbol upon their forehead (a circle, with one eighth missing) and granted some small measure of their artifact's power as it combined its aspect with their own (also helpfully meaning they didn't have to physically carry it around). The devastating wars that sprang up as a result of this were as predictable as they were bloody. It is only fortunate that since their unification, the pieces have never been separated again!
With all of its sections now thankfully combined, the Radiant Oct as a whole is said to be able to grant the every wish of its true bearer, their effects to remain until the Oct is claimed by someone else. Though the secrets of how to actually command the artifact were taken to the grave by the great queen who first assembled it, the proof of its power remains in the fantastical floating architecture, bounteous food, great material wealth, somewhat notable handsomeness, above-average levels of comfort, and all-round general utopiary enjoyed by the subjects of her kingdom even to this day, some 700 years later.
So content are all in the land of Altreign that nobody even bothered to replace her as queen, seeing no need for rulers in their now-perfect lives. Her skeleton still nominally rules the kingdom from its lifeless position upon the throne, bathed in the happy light of the Oct (similarly left unclaimed to sit as a symbol of their prosperity within her throne room) presumably forever.
Or at least... that's what they thought. Until it vanished.
Race: Celestial Artifact(s)
Gender: Omnipotent Pie Chart Segments
Color: A shade of gold, fortunately legible against a white background
Description:
Fully assembled, the Radiant Oct is a golden disc approximately 3 feet in diameter. It constantly radiates light of an easily predictable colour, and its presence is always accompanied by a faint but pleasing hint of choral music. Left to its own devices, the Oct is content to maintain a fixed position several feet above the ground, after first rising to occupy what it judges to be the most dramatically appropriate position. At rest it will constantly spin on its own axis and completes a full rotation just a little less than once per minute.
While technically composed of eight identically shaped parts, the seams are so close as to be impossible to detect, despite (or perhaps because of) its intricate and elaborate carvings. The design is said to depict the sun rising (or possibly setting) over the legendary kingdom of Altreign and all 24 of its goddesses, many of whose names have been forgotten over the years. Ancient script around its circumference is assumed to be instructions as to its use, but the method of translation has also been lost to time.
Historical record insists that if separated from the whole, each piece would immediately become totally blank, obscuring the carvings entirely. Further accounts claim that it is only then that its text becomes legible, though only to its chosen bearer. These accounts do not go quite so far as to reveal what it is the writing actually says.
Abilities:
The Radiant Oct is the most sacred of relics, containing the very power of the gods themselves. The story goes that it was left behind in the land of Altreign so that its inhabitants could better handle their own affairs after the gods got tired of answering prayers, performing miracles, and personally micromanaging their worshippers' lives and instead went off to do something more interesting.
Each individual "Octangle" (as the individual pieces are known) comprising the disc perfectly embodies one of the eight Altreignic Virtues, though nobody can quite remember what those actually are. In the dark years following the first appearance of the Oct and disappearance of the Gods, these golden segments would travel with wills of their own across the kingdom, designating those who they judged to best demonstrate their individual virtues as their champions and in some way encouraging them to gather together the remaining pieces, be it through friendship or conquest.
Each champion was marked by a holy symbol upon their forehead (a circle, with one eighth missing) and granted some small measure of their artifact's power as it combined its aspect with their own (also helpfully meaning they didn't have to physically carry it around). The devastating wars that sprang up as a result of this were as predictable as they were bloody. It is only fortunate that since their unification, the pieces have never been separated again!
With all of its sections now thankfully combined, the Radiant Oct as a whole is said to be able to grant the every wish of its true bearer, their effects to remain until the Oct is claimed by someone else. Though the secrets of how to actually command the artifact were taken to the grave by the great queen who first assembled it, the proof of its power remains in the fantastical floating architecture, bounteous food, great material wealth, somewhat notable handsomeness, above-average levels of comfort, and all-round general utopiary enjoyed by the subjects of her kingdom even to this day, some 700 years later.
So content are all in the land of Altreign that nobody even bothered to replace her as queen, seeing no need for rulers in their now-perfect lives. Her skeleton still nominally rules the kingdom from its lifeless position upon the throne, bathed in the happy light of the Oct (similarly left unclaimed to sit as a symbol of their prosperity within her throne room) presumably forever.
Or at least... that's what they thought. Until it vanished.