Tales of the Artifact of Invisibility

The **Tales of the Artifact of Invisibility** relates to stories which include some form of garment or item used to create complete invisibility. It was researched by Toot in Hwajae at some point.

The general agreement within crafters of magical items is that a garment that provides complete and permanent invisibility to a wearer is an almost impossible task, as is the nature of invisibility magic. Invisibility, bending light and photons requires a lot of energy, which cannot be sustained in long bursts or require high concentration and discipline. However, tales of such artifact have sparked the imagination of many.

**Elemental Kingdom Shamanism**

As Elemental Kingdom shamans have a high status within the spiritual life of the country, they fulfill the role of linking mortals and elementals, bringing good luck over the kingdom and performing rituals and cleansing for the country to not be attacked and ease portals.

A tale of a djinni (or storm giant, in some versions) speaks of a particularly devout oracle, who went on a long pilgrimage in the mountain of Fort Primordial. After fasting for weeks, the oracle received a spark of prophecy of an attack that would crush the country. Weakened and hunted by evil spirits that attempted to keep the oracle from coming home to warn the people, a benevolent djinni or giant would have given the oracle a robe of wonder that turned them invisible to all.

**The Tale of the Wedding Rings**

An immortal fey lord and a mortal man fell desperately in love, and lived a blissful romance. Once death came to claim the life of the mortal man, the fey lord stole a priceless gem from his court, and crushed it over their wedding rings. Once the deed done, both men turned invisible, and death would never find them again. Death, however, would hurl freezing winds for three months every year to ring its warning to the couple and try to see them covered in snow.

**The Phasing Panther / The Pelt Mother**

Elven tales, from the region of the Incense State, speak of the myth of the Phasing Panther : a dreadful creature that could disappear at will and hunt children at night's fall. A mother, whose child had been taken by the beast, hunted the panther for three seasons. When she finally found the monster, she shot an arrow with such strength it split the panther in two, freeing the child that was still alive in the belly of the beast. She then skinned the beast, and used the skin as a mantle of invisibility to hunt the rest of these invisible creatures. (In some regional versions, she turns into a phasing panther by putting the pelt on, but keeps her mind and personality).

This tale is probably based on the *Displacer Beast,* and gave birth to the legend of the Pelt Mother, today a mythological patron of hunters.

**The Fool's Fool**

This short, satyrical story speaks of a royal fool at the court of a king on a remote island. The jester, uncared for by his king, would have become so bitter he turned himself invisible. Once immaterial, he plays a series of tricks to his king, disrupting banquets, stealing food and jewelry, and boxing the king's ears. After the king died from the fright of such tricks, the jester would appear for a brief moment, warning the other rulers and put back his hat on, which turned him invisible again.

The location of this story is difficult to place, but resides somewhere between the Icalma Republic of The Wildes, the Footstep and the many archipelagos of The Scattered Scales between the Wildes and Al-Kazahrn.