The Brynduraz

Overview

An unusual dwarven sphere, thousands of years old, a bumpy and cracked stone bound in rough cast iron embedded with strange dull crystals. It feels cold to the touch ... and buzzes slightly. Its surface is pitted and marked with burns. An unusual rune adorns one side, although hardly dwarven in its likeness. Our heroes found this locked in a vault in the crashed dwarven ship the Ang Baraz.

Known History

The Brynduraz was constructed in ancient times and has a storied history.

Prior to the campaign

• It lay within a vault in the crashed dwarven flagship the Ang Baraz on a lost island for many hundreds of years.

During 📖Book 2 - The Lost Fleet

• It was recovered by 🚹Gunter Shortreach from the ruins of the Ang Baraz on the 28th of Emberleaf 3898
• It was taken by 🚹Gunter Shortreach to 🏢Orhaz aboard ⚓The Lucrator
• It spent the winter of 3898 in 🏢Orhaz in a backpack in a tavern

During 🗺️Book 3 - The Lead Zeppelin

• It was taken by 🚹Gunter Shortreach to 🏢Ezdin aboard ⚓The Doubtless Drake
• It was left by 🚹Gunter Shortreach in the 🏛️The Bishop's Wand tavern during the 🎖️Ezdin Jubilee Cup race, and later recovered from there.

Rumours and Legends

Most of what our heroes know about the Brynduraz is vague and unclear, including information relayed to them by the ghost of Senior Engineer Hadra Ketilson:

• Approximately 1000 years ago, the Brynduraz was stolen from the Karaz Thrung Nar ("Northern Shield Mountain") by the "Servants of the Eternal Night, minions of Nihilus the Shadow Walker, our ancient foe".
  • If this is true, the theft coincides with ⌛The Convergence during which shard-constructs throughout 🗺️Sordane become sentient - many of whom join forces and become the Odarii nation.
• Approximately 500 years ago, the dwarven clan Ganden Baraz (“The Promise to Find”) set out from 🗺️Lozandar to 🗺️Teyrote to recover “a piece of a machine that was stolen”. The Ang Baraz (“The Promise of Iron”) was the flagship of a fleet of dozens of warships.
• Some time after, the fleet entered a wildstream and was destroyed in a magical explosion. The debris of the fleet were cast into the ocean, with the bulk of the remnants dumped on to the middle of an island somewhere in the Geldius Ocean in the northern hemisphere.

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Facts

• It was found locked in a vault in the crashed dwarven flagship the Ang Baraz on a lost island in the Gelidus Ocean, north of 🗺️Bordair
• The room it was locked in was locked by Hadra Ketilson and remained locked for four hundred and eighty three years, seven months, three days and thirteen hours.
• When inspected by the mage 🚹Jaabir al-Hamidi he noted
  • That it radiated strong evil and Divination magics
  • That the religious symbol carved in it was from the 🌌Servants of Eternal Darkness - the ancient foe of the ⚒️Stout Mechanicus

Capabilities

Our heroes do not yet know anything significant about its capabilities.

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