The Rosaigostone

The Rosaigostone is an artifact recovered from Humbleblossom Estate by an expedition party near the end of 7WD.

## Description

While seemingly capable of inducing a localised aura of chaos of greatly varying range and result, the Rosaigostone itself appears a constant, forever fixed into the appearance of a smooth and polished large marble a few inches in diameter. Despite this, its surface texture varies significantly - from a slick damp sheen of wet stone, rough and coarse like sandpaper and soft and springy as rotten fruit.

## Research

### Completed by Ragmond

The yield of the Rosaigostone is highly variable by its inherent nature. It may remain dormant for a time, resulting in no alterations or abnormalities, before coming to seemingly random fecundity and prompting profound effects on its surroundings. It was prized by Earl Lilian Telcorth who acquired it shortly after its discovery within the central quags of the island of Morass, within the territory the Realm of Galykr. Gambler's Bait is yet to offer up another similar artifact, and in such it appears unique. It was for these properties that the Earl first sought it - paying a notable sum and a deed of land to its discoverer, for it is well-documented that the Lachosi revel in animated inorganic constructions, an enchantment that the Rosaigostone seemed to be innately, if not unpredictably, adept at providing.

It has therefore been speculated the origin to this power, seemingly intrinsic to the artifact's form. It was suggested and all but confirmed by the researchers of the Guild of the Crimson Blossom in Atralran, specialists in Transmutative magics, that it appeared to be a condensed mass of matter from the Ever-Shifting Plane of Limbo. While Limbo has come to be influenced by all manner of other planes of existence over the infinity for which has existed - most notably the Abyss, for it is within the depths of Limbo that the Elder Elemental Eye was first cast by Yaldin the Lantern Lord - it is said the plane itself condenses and precipitates, and the Rosaigostone was one of these formermost condensations. Others have instead suggested that the Rosaigostone is a fragment of the Spawning Stone, a location known as Urkocl by the githzerai, from which the Slaad were said to have been created from the primordial pastiche of substances organic and otherwise. Further speculate whether it was a scrap of the foundations of a githzerai mind fortress destroyed by a raid perpetrated by demons, aberrations or some other monstrosity. Regardless, all agree that the Rosaigostone seems inherently a part of Limbo, and with it the chaos of Limbo is brought forth, albeit in a localised manner.

Controlling its magics remains a challenge for any seeking to inspect, transport or otherwise interact with the artifact. While use of dispel magic seems to have some ability to dampen its effects, such abjuration is, by nature of the target, inherently unpredictable. Attempts using sufficiently draining and lofty uses of magic may yield longer standing results, but even this is not guaranteed, with return of chaotic transmutative form reappearing anywhere between seconds and days later. The only individuals thus far known to have gained the ability to modify the properties for any meaningful period were the zerths of Aer'ank'ltor, a monastery located somewhere within the Plane, supposedly within a mountain range created through willpower and mental fortitude alone. Though initially keen to relinquish the Earl's claim over the object, the githzerai, having established the artifact had no potential to create slaadi - and thus unlikely to be associated with the Spawning Stone - instead deigned stakes of ownership and returned to their contemplative and introspective isolation.