Hu'i Wing (Magic Brazier)

Under Karak is a huge subterranean fortress built by the Kozakurans, with many unexplored levels (mostly flooded). Local rumors have the invaders still hiding below. It is an extremely dangerous place and few brave souls dare to enter, but somewhere in its depths lies the singular, most valuable Koryoan relic, the hu'l wing.
For many years it was the centerpiece of a shrine near Goisho, where monks of the Wing-ta order tended it. It was stolen by the Kozakurans and carried to Karak where it was built into the fortress below the city. It is a huge copper brazier, 8' in diameter, with an ornately carved lip of swimming dragons and sail-finned carp. A fire must be started in it-the hotter the better. When the brazier begins to glow with heat, the dragons and carp become cherry-red and begin to flow around its lip. Soon they begin to swim, faster and faster, until they are a blur of flames spinning about the coals.
Anyone viewing the flames at this point sees them flashing white, as time is torn and fades into a picture of the future. An important event is revealed, such as a disaster, a civil war, or an assassination, but the vision will not involve the personal destinies of the watchers, unless they are very important indeed! The vision is the same event for all, but come from a different perspective for each, and those events do come to pass in the next year. This knowledge can be used for good or evil, to prosper or aid, at the viewer's discretion. The object cannot be removed from the dungeon without destroying it, so it must stay as it is, an old legend of the Han stolen by an evil enemy and lost for 10 generations.
Category:Encyclopedia Magica Magic Items
Category:Magic Items
Category:Magic Braziers