The Obscuring Mask

The Obscuring Mask is an ancient enchanted object created by an unknown animus dragon. Its exact history is not known- some say it holds the original enchanter's consciousness within it, while other theories state that it came to "life" as its own separate entity as an unexpected result of repeated enchantments on it. Its exact location was unknown for a very long time- but recently, a strange tribrid who seems unaffected by its magic has rediscovered it.
== Description ==
The Obscuring Mask is, as the name implies, a mask/helmet. Made of gold engraved with intricate swirls and embedded with black diamonds around the eye holes, it's in surprisingly good shape despite having been lost for centuries. There are jagged "toothy" shapes on the snout part of the Mask, and a hole that would allow a dragon with a snout horn to wear it. 
The Mask has multiple enchantments on it. The first is one that protects it from being destroyed easily- otherwise it likely would have been melted or crushed ages ago. The second makes it more tempting for those who see it to wear, although it's possible to resist this effect even without any sort of magical protection. 
The third- and most important and infamous- enchantment is what makes The Obscuring Mask so notable and dreaded among those who know the stories of it. If a dragon who is not immune to mind control wears the Mask, they will quickly become nothing but a vessel for it. wip
== History == 
As previously stated, the early history of The Obscuring Mask is shrouded in uncertainty. Alongside the vague details of its actual creation, there are also a variety of different theories as to what happened to it directly after it was created. 
Some say the creator's mind was instantly transferred to the Mask and as such their body died alone, leading to the Mask being lost for a while before a string of possessions when it was initially found again. Others say the Mask's maker was controlled by their own creation up until the Mask's control was discovered, and that either the mask was then ripped off or the creator unfortunately killed in an attempt to do that. Still others say that the creator went to show off the Mask- perhaps intended as a weapon to boost the abilities of their kingdom's soldiers, given the Mask's aggression- only for its enchantments to cause a bloody fight to break out as dragons swarmed to put it on, with the creator having been among the dead in the aftermath.
Whatever the case, after the Mask's initial creation, it went missing for years- until later on, when some foolish dragon found it and put it on. Chaos ensued as the Mask was transferred from dragon to dragon, gaining more and more power and growing to be a bigger threat. It aimed to control a tribe's queen, and from there presumably use its newfound position of power to control the whole tribe- and perhaps turn on the other tribes when that was done, now with an army behind it.
Fortunately and unsurprisingly, before it could go that far, dragons realized something was up. Perhaps by another animus or simply by a group of determined and heroic dragons, the Mask was defeated, moved and contained. Contained and hidden far from any treasury or secret palace room where, hopefully, no dragon would ever stumble upon it again. It would be forgotten, fade away into nothing but vague myths and rumors, until eventually one day it wasn't spoken of at all anymore.
Except those stories lasted. And, also, The Obscuring Mask was found. 
A strange, shiny thief managed to hunt it down. Perhaps their unusual powers helped, or maybe they were just absurdly lucky. To the mask, the reason didn't matter- it was just eager to finally have a new vessel, to finally escape the confines of where it had been hidden.
But then the dragon had simply stashed it away in a large bag and kept on searching the cave without stopping to marvel at or wear the mask until much later. When they did finally put it on, it was in front of a polished mirror put up on the wall of a tiny, hidden cave as they admired the mask and a handful of much less notable bracelets and rings that they must have found along the way.
And then they weren't even automatically controlled by the Mask, which was the absolute worst luck that the Mask could have imagined. On the bright side, while it couldn't control it, the Mask could still sort of feel the dragon's mind- and yell at it, similarly to how mind readers can communicate with each other. 
The dragon was wildly unimpressed. Text
== Trivia ==
-The original concept for the mask came from an old forum-wide roleplay on Scholastic's now dead Wings of Fire forums. 
-The reason it's been found by Glam is just that I don't plan on doing anything else with it.
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