Verdant Sphere

No one is exactly sure when and how these dangerous items came into being. Speculation rises around most of the item's aspects: the method of creation, its powers and current owners, most of whom keep theirs secret.
The cold, hard fact is that the first mage to carry Verdant Spheres openly was the late Prince Kael'thas Sunstrider, who acquired his set of three(!) before first meeting Malfurion's expedition.
Artificers consider these items to be a powerful type of ioun stones, magical stones that orbit the user's head and grant them magical benefitshttp://www.wowhead.com/item=31272, also hinting at a similar creation process. Sadly, Prince Kael'thas never revealed any details to his entourage, nor did he hint at the original creator. This has led some scholars to believe that the Spheres are themselves demonic in origin.
==Appearance==
The appearance of the Spheres is iconic to any arcanist who wants to intimidate and impress. When inactive, they appear to be fist-sized orbs of opaque green glass. When activated by a caster's command, they burst into green flame and hover above their heads. Some casters perfer to disguise them behind an illusion, however, or keep them inactive until needed.
==Powers==
These powerful arcane artefacts are said to drain the essence of slain demons to power themselves. Indeed, some of the lucky few who had a close look into one say (perhaps as a result of this legend?) that they can see twisted, grotesque faces hidden beneath the glass. The legend cannot be verified except by breaking the sphere, however, something no user has ever dared yet.
Granted powers include:
*Projecting an invisible shield of force around the user (strength equivalent to a uit of chainmail)
*Toughening the user's skin (does not alter apparance, equivalent to another suit of chainmail).
*Enhancing the user's mental faculties.
*Enhancing spells of fire: all fire-based spells with an area effect or explosive radius have the area or radius doubled.
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