Al-Kaniali's Tear

: O child of a shattered bloodline...You are not yet ready to know what lies ahead. 
Al-Kaniali's Tear is a magical artifact of uncertain origin, thought to be brought to the Greatcloud Galaxy by Maius the Soulkeeper in his flight from Ealdremen. Patterned after a similar artifact meant to serve as a mechanical, last-ditch failsafe should apocalyptic events befall Mioura, its ultimate purpose was to effect a smaller-scale, perverted version of the Ritual, killing all precursors within its activation radius and raising them as colossi to protect them from harm. 
Maius embedded the Tear within the heart of the uninhabited Lightbringer city on Elegy, thinking to extend the "protection" it promised to Elegy's later denizens -- but then sealed the entire city upon discovering the artifact's true purpose, horrified at the possibility of its activation.
It was later discovered by the crew of the Black Ship Aspirant and unwittingly activated. Though left to deteriorate and vastly weakened, it regardless transformed the Lightbringer Shardbonded among the crew's number into the mad colossi of the Dissonant Choir. Other Lightbringer precursors were present upon Elegy's surface during its activation, but they were ultimately spared by the hubris of the Shardbonded -- who conspired to wait and claim the power of the artifact for themselves while the rest of the crew slept in their distant camp, outside the activation radius.
Their fate following this catastrophic event is yet unknown.
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