Terra Nova Research Base, Antarctica.
RAIN-6762: “Brier Pearl”
Published in 1978 [updated in 2001]
Unlike witches and druids, with the Heart of Endor and the Druidic Staff respectively, the necromancer community doesn’t possess only one artefact of enormous power. Due for them to be mostly shunned by both humans and magical beings alike, they decided to invest in a collection of three objects that worked together, but could perform lower tasks when alone. On the course of History, the material that made the artefacts, were refashioned time and time again to protect them and not to leave records to be found by enemies.
By the end of the 17th century, refashion the artefacts became an obligatory measure during the Schism. The magical community, for the first time since the Atlantis Era, had closed ranks to protect what was theirs, and that included finally ally with the small groups who got hit worse, like werewolves and necromancers.
From gold totems to coins to jewellery. By the time of the Schism, the artefacts were in possession of three different groups; the colonist of Virginia, Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, and the Khoekhoe people under the Dutch East India Company. When the Treaty of Arcadia and the Agrippa Convention ended with the secession of the magical people from Earth, the necromancers took back their artefacts and transformed them into what we know today.
What we call now the Brier Pearl, went from series of iterations and characterizations but it’s been photographed as a large black pearl encased in a circlet of gold with diamonds as decoration.
Unlike the others, who perceived their strength was on numbers, necromancers decided it would be safer to take just one of the artefacts with them to Thera and the New World. This with the belief if they hid them in unknown corners of both worlds, could be retrieved in an emergency like a second schism. Since this was during the Golden Age of Exploration, and the heads of the necromancer community were mostly European, the “unknown” became East Asia. Even more worrisome, the distance between these artefacts were just a thousand kilometres.
In a dark moment in Magical History, the Cassius Ring was stolen from the private collection from where it was stored.
At the same time, in Hong Kong, Sir Reginald Wright along with Tang Zhu, Anne Beckett, Henry Lowell, and Wallace Q. Ingram, created the British Explorers, Adventurers and Researchers Society. Wright, until 1913, had been known for buying stolen goods, but since the image of the ring wasn’t one known in the public, it was near impossible to guarantee he had stolen it. This, however, was confirmed years later, after the disappearance of almost the entirety of the BEARS Board from their Headquarters in Pom City, when the ring returned to the original collection.
A couple of members of the original teams of the Terra Nova Research Base, reported Dr. Tang brandishing a pearl necklace in the same style of the Cassius Ring. After an incident on September 4, 1923, she relinquished the ownership of the necklace to the base, as well as gave instructions on where to find the third artefact.
Regarding the particular proprieties of the Brier Pearl, which is encased in this necklace, we can agree in two things, the upside and the downside. The upside is that it can keep someone alive indefinitely if the spell is done correctly, even with someone at the brink of death. The downside is that, while active, it drains the energy of the person performing the spell, which causes a modern version of the Sleeping Beauty Syndrome, most commonly known as stress-induced narcolepsy. It is, as explained by our own Tang Zhu, “permanently tiresome, like being the mother of a two-year old”. In a more medical depiction, she defined it as the brain not producing enough energy to keep you awake and sustain the spell, which solves by making you fall asleep in any moment you are not doing something.
It is, by the publication and update of this report, what are the purposes of Cassius Ring and Ingram Monocle, the other two artefacts, or how all of them work together. We’d tried to contact the necromancers back in Thera, but besides suing us under custody of the artefacts (litigation pendant), they haven’t provided information regarding them.
Ariel Bonheur, Chief Archivist.
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