Relics

Known relics in the world. For the broader categories they fall into, see Relic Types.

Red Ruby Hilt

Type: Common offensive relic

A golden T-shaped object with a ruby embedded at the top. On use, it produces a flame projectile roughly the size of a man’s fist. The projectile flies in a small arc that is mostly predictable but not perfectly so — the arc doesn’t always curve downward.

Widely available as replicas. Often unofficially called the sparker.

Dazzling Rod

Type: Common offensive relic

An ornate silver rod with a colorless gem set near the palm. In certain angles the gem carries a faint blue tint. When aimed at a target (working term — needs a better name), the rod stiffens in the user’s hand and resists movement once it has honed in. Pulling the rod at that point delivers the effect: severe but short-lived dizziness in the target, comparable to being struck hard in the head. There is no projectile — the dazzle acts at range through the rod itself.

Widely available as replicas. Sorcerer schools commonly stock Dazzling Rod replicas for training — Kimi’s school in The Quiet Yearthe_quiet_year/ uses them, and her personal relic is one.

True Relic of the Capricorn

Type: True relic, housed in the cathedrals of Cairnholm

The Capricorn’s miracle is vigilance and endurance. Grief, anxiety, doubt, fear — the weight of these dulls. What shakes a person stiffens instead: nervousness becomes steadiness, dread becomes resolve, the urge to falter quiets. The mind does not become sharper or clearer — it becomes harder to move.

The effect is temporary, lasting weeks to months before fading. It does not remove the cause of suffering; it grants a stretch of time where a person might endure under it.

The cathedral runs the miracle as a commonly performed ritual on scheduled miracle days attracting pilgrims in large numbers.