Torch of Darkness

== Profile ==
Created as a sacred relic of a society that worshipped darkness as a means of peace and inner harmony, they were destroyed by a light-wielding empire as a part of the empire's great war against another empire of darkness, despite the society having no affiliations with that dark empire.
Of course, that is just a story told by firesides. And yet the torch remains...
== Abilities ==
It is a simple device with a simple purpose. When lit; it produces 
strange dark flames that seem to dim those lights around it, in a shroud
 of night. 
And from that darkness comes healing; immensely 
fast healing at a rate far beyond the norm for any of those who sit in 
it. The darkness has been said to be “soothing” and “peaceful” from 
those who have reported interactions with it, helped by the fact that 
sounds within it are not silenced but certainly softened. In a strange 
quirk of such; one can always read text within its radius no matter how 
dark it gets or even if one is blind or illiterate.
Of course,
 some may say to be wary of the power of the Torch, for its causation of
 bodily mutation with prolonged time spent therein. But, while the forms
 created can be bizarre and even terrifying in some cases; none have 
proven physically deleterious; even improving on the abilities those 
subjects therein who have faculties they feel they are lacking in.
The
 flames lit by the torch give off its same effects as long as they stay 
burning, and there are some places where the flame is treated to keep it
 eternally burning (Though this is rare due to the stigma against the 
mutated often), and even when the flame is fallen, the ashes produce 
wondrous and unusual plants when used as fertilizer and are an excellent
 ingredient for healing and transformative magic.
== Characterization ==
The torch itself speaks little, often even only through proxies like 
pyromancies and Ouija boards used by its wielders, but perhaps that’s 
because it has little to say or feels that sometimes the best thing to 
do is just listen…
== Additional Info. ==
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== Author Commentary ==
Yet another one I only wrote the backstory for after putting it on the Wiki, improvizing a connection with another improv-backstory. This after I drew the drawing first and came up with the abilities after. Which is a running trend with these really...
== Major Appearances (If Any) ==
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== License ==
These artifacts are free to use as you see fit under a CC-BY 4.0 license so long as I; Thomas F. Johnson, am credited as their creator!
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