Ink and watercolour plate of four element cores on carved stone cradles: a molten core of fire, a blue core crackling with lightning, a swirling violet arcane core and a pale gold core of radiance.

History

The Element Cores

Concentrated wells of elemental power scattered across the Primeweald, each granting new magic to the one who takes hold of it.

  • Before the Invasion
  • Dark Times

Description

Element cores are concentrated founts of magical power. Taken in hand, a core awakens new magic: from the first the stranger drew the arcane pulse, which breaks sturdy obstacles; from the core of fire, magma burst; from the core of lightning, the power to charge devices without generators; and from the Core of the Arcane, an arcane beam made to pierce the shadows.

Historical context

Cores are rare and fiercely contested. Eons ago a mountain was split to take the core of fire, and in the Dark Times the Acolytes of Umbra guarded the cores of the Primeweald against all comers. In the shadow of Twilight Peak the stranger found a core Aurelius had never seen before, holding a new element born of Abigail's meddling: radiance.