Scarab-of-Night-Turned-Day
The wicked ruler, Prince Ulcanov of the Shattered Waters, employed a weapon of horrible power called the ~Scarab-of-Night-Turned-Day. The provenance of the device is much disputed and the whereabouts are equally unknown. Despite the many accounts from the Fifth Isbajath, the eventual fate of the Scarab remains unknown to this day. A common account is that it was shattered by Gidhoniel kab S'ephah with the Sword Wanewake, but this is not well attested.
The Scarab is described as a carved lapis lazuli of exquisite lapidary quality shaped into the form of a scarab beetle common in the Shadevan Delta. The stone is placed in a setting of pure or nearly pure gold worked into the appearance of winged divinities and ancient glyphs, with one winged divinity on either side of the scarab. The obverse of the gold setting depicts the face of an unknown god, probably male, and clean-shaven. The workmanship is of the utmost excellence and the device was observed never to soil, fade, or show the marks of age or wear.
Prince Ulcanov had the Scarab set atop a wooden rod, plated with guilded bronze, also of extraordinary craftsmanship. In some accounts, Prince Ulcanov wore the Scarab dangling from a chain of steel links around his neck.
The cause of the device's peculiar name, the 'Scarab-of-Night-Turned-Day' is attributed to its stupendous power to change affairs as if from night to day.
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