Crystal of Truth

The Crystal of Truth, also called the crystal and the Dark Crystal, is the titular object from the 1982 film The Dark Crystal and the franchise of the same name. One thousand years before the film, the Crystal was once pure and white, and was the living, beating heart of the planet Thra. It created Aughra to be its eyes and ears and with her life, she protected the Crystal before relinquishing it to the UrSkeks after being bewitched by their Tales and left Thra to explore the stars and nearly slept for 950 trine. The UrSkeks tried to use the Crystal to cleanse their souls but it detected that one of the urSkeks had a darkened soul, causing the Crystal to split the urSkeks into two beings: the Skeksis and the Mystics. Once of the Skeksis, highly thought to be SkekSo, broke a shard off the Crystal. 
The Skeksis began using the essence of the Crystal to prolong their own lives, but SkekTek continued to conduct their experiments on the Crystal. In doing so, the Skeksis darkened the Crystal into a purple color, calling it the Dark Crystal and unleashed the Darkening. He and SkekSil discovered that the Crystal could take life and resolved to drain Gelfling and Podlings it their essence to drink themselves. 
It was eventually healed by Jen when he restored the Crystal's shard within it's broken place and it reunited the Skeksis and Mystics into the urSkeks and restored Thra to its natural balance. 
However, the Crystal was cracked again at least one hundred trine later when Thurma took a shard of the Crystal of Truth, which brought back the Mystics and the Skeksis. SkekSil tried preventing Kensho and Thurma from healing the Crystal; however, he was killed in Mithra Thurma restored the Crystal to its natural state. 
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Category:The Dark Crystal objects
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