We all fall in parallel
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: A set piece for the Ziost Invasion.
Image Credit: Pixels.com
Canon Link: Naga Sadow , Seeds of Rage (principle concept)
Permissions: N/A
Primary Source: N/A
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Naga Sadow
Affiliation: Whoever happens to find it.
Market Status: N/A
Model: N/A
Modularity: No.
Production: Unique
Material: Worshyr tree wood, lacquer, Sith Alchemy
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Can be used to store small trinkets, etc.
- Powerful wards prevent people from seeing within if they do not open it.
- Aura of subtlety masks the evil presence with feelings that the bearer would associate positively with.
- Aura of captivation makes people desire the box and its contents.
- When opened, the box will slowly spread its miasma across a world and attempt to corrupt anything it can.
STRENGTHS
- Trickster: the box appeals to emotions. Whoever holds it can experience a wide variety of things, most always positive. It wants to be opened and will tell the person holding it whatever they want to hear in order to achieve that goal.
- Ideal Secret Keeper: People cannot see what lies within the box, unless they open it first.
- Thou shalt not Covet: No matter what is in the box, if a person can see the box, they have a strong chance to begin wanting whatever is inside.
WEAKNESSES
- Unspeakable Horror: Once the box is open, its contents cannot ever be returned. It was made to contain them, and it is made useless once they are free.
- Ruin: the box creates an obsession; for as long as they hold on to it, the bearer of the box wants to hoard it like a precious treasure. Whatever they keep in it becomes their prized possession, even if it lacks inherent value. Wars were waged simply to own the box. The box itself lacks true value: it is the pinnacle of Sith Deception.
- Purifying Light: the effects of the Box are intensely rooted in the dark side of the Force. Therefore, phenomenons of pure light can undermine or excise its effects. Taking care that something not become too far gone, the corruption can be undone.
DESCRIPTION
In the days of Ancient Ziost, the Sith Lord Naga Sadow sought to rule by right.
The Sith waged wars against one another, invoking their rite of Kaggath. He who took victory claimed whatever he desired from his enemy. Sadow sought to bring ruin to all those who opposed him, and so he conspired in secret to create a weapon that would undermine and drag them all down into infighting.
He crafted an ornate box which he named Tash, or "the Lie." Tash was invested with Sith Alchemy that spoke to the darkest, basest parts of the human psyche. It told them that whatever was inside of it could give them everything their heart desired. It whispered false promises of power, of riches, of greatness; for those with more meager aspirations, it told them it could give love, happiness- all the things a person could ever want.
The truth, however, was a bitter thing.
Inside of the box lay a powerful Spell woven by Sith Magic that had potential to drag entire worlds down into the darkness. Sadow devised a plot that would give him control of Ziost for all eternity should the wars born of Tash's insidious influence not prove equal to the task of tearing his enemies apart. The magic within the box would spread out to infect all the souls of those in a great distance, and it would cow them to subservience. At least, that was the intention.
With his death, the magic within Tash waned. The reality for the Sith was that for all their desire to live forever, they could not truly defeat death. As such, the magic changed. Tash's power became erratic, wild, and "free" in the truest sense of Sith doctrine. There were no more chains- and if it were ever allowed to escape the box…
