Staves of Creation

**The Three Staves** *(AKA Staves of Creation, Lifely Hallows, The Three, The Staves of Power)* are a set of magical artefacts created by Theophilus with the help of Sporix, the god of balance in Melorsian cultures, around 3 billion years ago. Using the power of the Metaphysical Realm, they are able to create new forms of life, evolve them and multiply them if necessary.

These Staves are highly coveted artefacts, not just because of their immense power to create life out of nothing, but because in the wrong hands their infinite power could be harnessed to create terrible weapons of mass destruction on a scale unseen anywhere else in the universe. Barry Ostrichfeet, for example, used one of the staves, the Staff of Evolution, to create magically amplified nuclear arms that wiped out the city of Blindopol on planet Oculus, igniting the Destructive War between his totalitarian regime and the Republic of Oculus in the process.

The only known foil to the combined power of the Staves of Power is the Ring of Fate, which can absorb the power used by them to strenghten its wearer, until they would be equally powerful to all three of the staves at once. In addition to that, the Staves have a failsafe in which only those "pure of heart" would be able to wield them for their intended purpose: Spreading life across the cosmos. Anyone else attempting to wield one of them will receive the memories and personality traits of the previous users of that staff, and slowly lose their sanity until their souls are absorbed into the staff upon dying.

If someone tried to wield two of the three staves at once, they become suspectible to high bursts of anima interference from the interactions between meta- and realspace, ending with explosions, knockouts, absorbtion of the previous trapped users' souls into the current user's body (like what happened with Blueduck-Ducky), or even death. So far it isn't know what happens if one tried to wield all three of the Staves at once, but it can  be extrapolated from known facts that attempting so would mean certain death.

Currently two of the Three Staves (The Staff of Evolution and the Staff of Birth) are in the possession of the Republic of Oculus, which holds them in a tightly-secured location at the Central Bank of Gigantopia. The third staff, the "true" Staff of Life, is on the hands of Theophilus, who is currently hiding in a yet-unknown location as of now.

## The Staves

Each of the Staves of Creation are powerful by their own right, but they also have a specific function for which they were particularly made for.

### The Staff of Evolution

Arguably the second-most known of the Three, the Staff of Evolution's primary purpose is to evolve creatures into the next stage of their evolutionary chain. However, it can also be applied at anything else in general to mutate them, including inanimate objects. Mr. Goodwill used the Staff to create Barren's Super-Monolith before his ship was shot down by Grox drones, and Barry Ostrichfeet used it to speed up the development of nuclear weapons in his nation-state.

The Staff of Evolution is also one of the most coveted of the Three, most in part due to its ability to amplify and mutate objects by the user's will. Mark Question, for example, is looking for it because he could then use it to create an army of super-mutants to conquer the galaxy and destroy the proprietors of the Qveztan genocide.

### The Staff of Birth

The least-known of the Three Staves, the Staff of Birth's main ability is to multiply objects, which can also be applied to creatures as well. These creature clones maintain all the same abilities that their "prime hosts" own, regardless of their power level. For that reason it could be considered the "most dangerous" of all three, as there is no end to the clones that this staff can spawn unless the original copy is killed.

The most infamous use of this staff was when Blueduck-Ducky seized it in addition to the Staff of Evolution, and attempted to use them alongside the super-monolith in order to ascend to godhood. His "grand ascendancy" was a failure which led into the Siege of the Monolith, where the forces of the Maa star system combined their powers to take the insane Ducky mutant down before he destroyed the Monolith's control systems.

### The Staff of Life

The most known of the three, although most of the people in the galaxy mistake it for the devices that Steve offers to those who visit the center of the galaxy. The connection and possible similarities between the two are yet to be determined in further detail, although there is a theory by the Magus Institute that at some point in time, Steve had his hands on Theophilus' Staff of Life, and he used it to create a stockpile of "replicas" that all last exactly 42 uses before crumbling to dust.
Nevertheless, the true powers of the "real" Staff of Life can be assumed to be the same as Steve's Staves of Life, if not even more powerful. The current location of this staff is currently unknown, but it can be theorized that it is currently on Theophilus' hands at this very moment.

## Adventure Appearances

### Trooba & Hivehat series

The Staves of Creation are introduced as a concept through this series. The Staff of Evolution was discovered by Barry Ostrichfeet in the River of Evolution after the Great Flood, seized by his chieftain Birgitta, stolen by Greeneater, used by Trooba to heal Hivehat, and later played a significant role in many of the conflicts the Republic of Oculus would face within this series and beyond.
Likewise, the Staff of Birth is discovered within an abandoned Grox laboratory found on planet Grawx, subsequently stolen by Blueduck-Ducky for his "grand ascendancy", and then sealed within the Central Bank of Gigantopia for the rest of the series. The Staff of Life isn't revealed here, but its existence and possible location are hinted at throughout the series.

### Muton Madness

The Staves are mentioned (and seen) by the Melorsian diplomatic envoy and Mark Question , the latter of whom believes the Staff of Evolution to be hidden within the Temple of Balance until it is discovered that the temple's deepest chamber held a special Sporid instead.

### KotS III - Revenge of Question

Mark Question believed that the Sukula royalty's treasure held the Staff of Evolution within it, until Sokou put an end to his actions by exposing his treachery to the court of Blindia. In the end, both of them were banished as Question had used Sokou's form to assassinate King Sukula, which even fooled video footage of the incident as well.

### Secrets of the Sporids

Sporix explains his background with the Three Staves as part of the "lesson" he provides to the captain and Professor Urgol in return that the two wouldn't return to Solum until "the time was right". It is also revealed that Xenolate , Ylate and a certain other creature were the first creatures born out of the Three Staves.

### Golden Guild Invitational II - The Doctor of Pestilence

Xenolate explains to Zell Abazus why he desires to destroy the Three Staves - they are the only remaining memento of the infinite power the Masaari wielded in their hubris before the Million Year War. He could either erase them from existence with the Time Crystal, or go with the plan he had in mind with the Ring of Fate by creating a god of destruction that absorbed the staves' power to destroy the galaxy.

### Trooba - The Monolith's Legend

The origin story for how the Staves of Evolution and Birth managed to get into the Maa system - They were brought there by Amicus Goodwill and the Grox respectively, the latter of whom had previously seized the lifely hallow from Amicus in an unknown Melorsian-Grox battlefield. It is also revealed that the Monolith's incredible power is a result of the Staff of Evolution being used to mutate a regular monolith beyond its uplifting capabilities.