Omniscient clam

The **omniscient clam** is an incredibly powerful living artifact that is able to answer any question asked of it. It only opens on the first night of every month and closes the dawn of the following day. Due to its powers, the clam is desired by many powerful and dangerous people, and is considered to be a "black market relic". However, King Jack hid it somewhere far away long ago as part of his lifelong mission to return stolen artifacts to their rightful lands. It is first mentioned by Jack when he reminisces that he and Leelathae used to 'fight' right before he took a long journey to return it.

Before his journey to return the omniscient clam to its rightful homeland, his fiancé Lilyth was told that if she married Jack and bore his children, the children would be "cursed" with her ugliness and doomed to a life of hatred and rejection. Lilyth took this to heart and stowed away in a trunk for Jack's voyage with the intention to leave him forever, and she ended up in the very same trunk where Jack had stored the omniscient clam, on the very first night of the month when it offered its services, and it spoke to her. She was so confused when it spoke to her that she kept repeating the question of what it was until the near break of dawn, leaving her time for only one other question. Lilyth asked the clam what her children with Jack would look like should she choose to stay with him. The clam predicted that she would go into labor three times, and that each child born would be the most beautiful in all the land. This gave Lilyth hope and relief for her future with Jack, and she returned to him and reconfirmed her desire to marry him.

Ever since they were princes, King Leland has been planning to use the omniscient clam in a scheme to take down King Jack. He wrote a note addressed to Jack that would lead him to the Corduroy Canyon alone at sunset on the last day of the month with the clam, and placed the note inside of the 'curse-curing crystal' at the Bippity Bop Gala, where he knew Jack would try to take it. When Jack arrives at the canyon, King Leland will be there, along with his sons and Jack's daughters together; his daughters will call him a thief, a liar, and a hypocrite, and he will be arrested for theft and smuggling of a Schedule 1 forbidden magical weapon. Leland will gain the omniscient clam, and along with it, unlimited power and an unstoppable empire.

## Quotes

"I am an omniscient clam. I have unlimited knowledge about everything in the universe, and I will answer any question about the past, present, and future. Do you have anything you'd like to ask me?"

"For the last time... I am an all-knowing magical clam that opens the first night of every month until dawn the following day... which is **very** soon because you've wasted so much time asking me over and over about what I am. You only have time to ask me one last question about anything. Like, *anything*. How to get rich, how to become ruler of the entire world, violent stuff, illegal stuff-- Please. I'd prefer anything over this."

"Ma'am, this isn't a therapy clam... Do you have a question or not?"

"Thrice shalt enter into labor and grip your husband's hand ... and each child born will be the most beautiful in all the land."

## References

1. ↑ Season 4 Mega-Recap Sundae
2. ↑ Episode 127
3. ↑ Episode 140
4. ↑ Episode 131