Bringer of Doom (Magic Box)

So long in the past is the Age of Doom that it cannot even be conceived of by mortals. This was a time of great lamenting, for the society of that lived in that age was destroyed in the twinkling of an eye. Their own powerful magic and exalted sciences became too great for them, and their passions overcame their senses. In a great wave of power, the race destroyed itself, leaving but one remnant.
Perhaps it would have been better had they left nothing behind, but the artifact known as the bringer of doom somehow survived that great holocaust. The bringer of doom is a small box with a strange, circular red gem set upon its top. If the gem is touched and depressed, the box itself explodes in a blinding flash of power and destruction. So great is the force of the blast that everything within 100 feet of the item (including the user and the box) is utterly destroyed.
The explosion opens a temporary, one-way rift to the Gray Waste, from which 10 to 1,000 hordlings pour forth and rain destruction down upon everything they encounter. There is a 10% chance that some other, greater fiend will come through the rift, as well.
The bringer of doom always reforms, after destruction, and manages to be discovered at a later time, by the unknowing.
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