In the shadowed annals of Terra's Elderglow lore, apocalypse-grade relics stand as the pinnacle—of the Covenant's creations. These artifacts, forged at the height of the Age of Ascendance, harness Aetheric energies capable of reshaping reality itself, often at the cost of cataclysmic fallout. Ranked by scholars (and feared by all) for their potential to trigger world-ending events, they are the stuff of forbidden texts and desperate quests. The Kainos Mirror, with its replication prowess, is but one; below are others whispered of in Seeker enclaves and Arcanum vaults. Each is said to have survived the Cataclysm, hidden in ruins or guarded by spectral forces, drawing seekers like Elarion Voss into perilous hunts.
1. The Voidheart Orb
Description: A pulsating sphere of obsidian laced with Netherkin essence, the Voidheart Orb devours light and matter, creating voids that can swallow armies or cities whole. It was crafted as a defensive weapon against invading planes but proved uncontrollable, once erasing an entire mountain range in a test gone awry.
Powers: Infinite absorption of energy (synergizing eerily with Elarion's Ex Infinite Mana talent), allowing the user to redirect devoured forces as cataclysmic blasts. However, prolonged use risks pulling the wielder into an eternal abyss, their soul fragmented across dimensions.
Location Rumors: Believed sealed in the Hollow Sanctum's deepest crypts, where Netherkin wraiths feed on its leaks. Some say it's the source of Skyend's "Black Storms," voids that roam the Jagged Wastes.
2. The Chronos Weave
Description: A shimmering tapestry woven from threads of time itself, harvested from Aetheric Wells during temporal anomalies. This relic allows manipulation of time flows, rewinding events or accelerating decay, but its use frays the fabric of reality, causing paradoxes that birthed the Cataclysm's time-warped ruins.
Powers: Grant temporal loops for infinite retries in battles or explorations, or age enemies to dust in seconds. With infinite mana, it could sustain eternal youth, but echoes of alternate timelines haunt the user, eroding sanity.
Location Rumors: Hidden in the Well of Sypherion, where time dilation already warps visitors. Legends claim its last owner, a Covenant chronomancer, wove themselves into the tapestry, becoming a trapped guardian.
3. The Starforge Crown
Description: A crown of meteoric alloy studded with Starborn crystals, designed to bind celestial entities to mortal will. It amplifies the wearer's commands to godlike levels but invites divine retribution, as seen when it shattered a Starborn during the Cataclysm, raining fiery debris across Terra.
Powers: Summon stellar phenomena like meteor showers or solar flares, or commune directly with imprisoned Starborn for forbidden knowledge. Infinite mana would allow unchained summoning, potentially restoring the Elderglow—or igniting another shattered stars event.
Location Rumors: Entombed in the Vault of Eternal Dawn, atop Skyend's highest peak, where eternal daylight wards off intruders. Arcanum patrols swarm the area, using lesser relics to mimic its glow.
4. The Abyss Whisperer
Description: A jagged dagger forged from Netherkin bone and Aetheric-vein ore, it whispers corrupting secrets that bend minds and realities. Used by Covenant assassins, it could incite mass madness, turning allies against each other—much like the betrayal in Elarion's Spire battle.
Powers: Implant illusions or commands that propagate like a plague, creating phantom armies or shattering empires from within. Paired with infinite mana, whispers could echo eternally, rewriting histories across Terra.
Location Rumors: Lost in the Ironcrag Depths' arcane forges, where animated constructs guard it amid molten Aetheric flows. Netherkin cults seek it to summon their kin fully into the world.
These relics embody the Elderglow's hubris: tools of ascension that invite apocalypse. The Arcanum hoards knowledge of them, while Seekers like Elarion once guarded against their revival.
5. The Shadow Banner
In the veiled chronicles of Terra's Elderglow, where light and darkness danced in precarious balance, the Shadow Banner emerges as one of the most insidious apocalypse-grade relics—a banner woven from the very fabric of oblivion, capable of eclipsing suns and devouring souls on a planetary scale. Forged during the Covenant's darkest experiments with Netherkin alliances, it represents the era's flirtation with shadow magic, a force that could cloak armies or unravel realities. Ranked alongside titans like the Molten Titan for its potential to plunge entire continents into eternal night, the Shadow Banner is a relic of subtle apocalypse, where doom creeps rather than crashes, luring wielders into a web of inescapable void.
Origins and Description
The Shadow Banner was crafted in the Hollow Sanctum's abyssal forges, where Covenant shadow-weavers bound threads of pure void—harvested from rifts to the Netherkin's shadow realms—with Aetheric silk infused by Starborn eclipses. It appears as a tattered flag of inky blackness, its edges fraying into tendrils that writhe like living smoke. When unfurled, it expands indefinitely, casting shadows that defy light sources and whisper ancient curses in forgotten tongues. Its creator, a rogue priestess named Nyxara the Veilbreaker, intended it as a tool for stealthy conquest, but its hunger for light grew unchecked, leading to her own disappearance into its folds. Sealed away post-Cataclysm in a light-sealed vault, it was buried to prevent it from "swallowing the stars," as inscribed on its pole of obsidian bone.
The banner is not merely an object but a semi-sentient entity, its shadows pulsing with a malevolent intelligence that seeks to expand its domain. To wield it requires attuning via a ritual of darkness, where the user offers a piece of their shadow—symbolizing their soul's tether to the light.
Powers
Eclipse Dominion: The banner can summon vast shadows that blot out the sun, plunging regions into perpetual night, weakening light-based magic and empowering Netherkin forces. In combat, it engulfs foes in personal voids, erasing them from existence or trapping them in pocket dimensions of torment.
Shadow Replication: Tendrils weave duplicates of beings or objects from pure darkness, creating illusory armies or real, shadowy clones that drain life from originals. Synergizing with relics like the Kainos Mirror, it could mass-produce void entities endlessly.
Void Whisper: It amplifies mental manipulations, broadcasting corrupting thoughts across minds, inciting madness or loyalty to the wielder.
Risks and Dangers
Wielding the Shadow Banner invites a creeping apocalypse: shadows grow autonomous, consuming the user's essence until they become a wraith bound to the relic. Historical echoes from the Cataclysm describe it veiling entire cities, where inhabitants withered into husks as their life force fed the void. Netherkin influence amplifies this, potentially opening permanent rifts that summon hordes from lower planes. Overuse risks a "Shadow Cascade," where darkness spreads uncontrollably, threatening to engulf Skyend in an eternal eclipse—mirroring the Shattered Stars but in cold oblivion rather than fiery chaos.
Location Rumors
Rumored to be entombed in the Hollow Sanctum's deepest vaults, beneath layers of illusory light wards and shadow guardians. Whispers in Vyrn's underbelly speak of seismic shifts in the Jagged Wastes exposing entry points, with Arcanum shadow-hunters patrolling to claim it. Some Seeker texts suggest it's "alive," migrating through underground voids, drawn to wielders with strong Aetheric auras.
6. Molten Titan
Amid the pantheon of Terra's most dreaded artifacts, the Molten Titan stands as a colossal embodiment of raw, destructive fury—an apocalypse-grade relic forged in the fiery heart of the Elderglow's greatest forges. Unlike the subtle manipulations of the Kainos Mirror or the temporal whims of the Chronos Weave, the Molten Titan is a behemoth of molten rock and Aetheric flame, a sentient construct designed to raze empires and reshape landscapes. Its existence is a testament to the Covenant's desperation during the waning days of the Age of Ascendance, when threats from rival planes loomed large. Classified at the apex of apocalypse-grade relics for its capacity to trigger continental infernos, it slumbers in Terra's depths, a ticking cataclysm waiting for a worthy—or foolish—awakener.
Origins and Description
The Molten Titan was birthed in the Ironcrag Depths, where Covenant forge-masters fused Aetheric Veins with the essence of primordial fire elementals, entities drawn from the Netherkin's volcanic underrealms. Standing over 100 feet tall in its active form, it resembles a humanoid colossus of churning lava, with veins of glowing ore pulsing like arteries and eyes like twin suns. Its body is armored in cooled obsidian plates that crack and reform with every movement, exhaling plumes of superheated ash that can incinerate forests in moments. Legend holds it was the last creation of the Elderglow's master artificer, Zorath the Flamebound, who sealed it away after a test awakening leveled a nearby citadel, fearing its insatiable hunger for destruction.
Unlike static relics, the Titan is semi-sentient, bound by ancient runes that demand a "pilot"—a wielder who merges their consciousness with its core, a molten heartstone embedded in its chest. This fusion grants control but risks consuming the user's soul in eternal flame.
Powers
Cataclysmic Eruption: The Titan can channel Aetheric energy to trigger volcanic upheavals, summoning magma rivers or earthquakes that swallow cities. In battle, it wields fists of liquid fire, capable of melting armies or forging barriers of cooled lava.
Infernal Regeneration: Drawing from infinite heat sources (synergizing devastatingly with talents like Ex Infinite Mana), it regenerates endlessly, reforming from even total disintegration as long as Aetheric Veins feed it.
Ash Dominion: It commands swarms of fiery minions—ash wraiths that scout, sabotage, or engulf foes in choking clouds. These can spread like a plague, turning battlefields into wastelands.
Risks and Dangers
The Molten Titan's power is a double-edged blade of apocalypse. Awakening it demands a blood rite, binding the pilot's life force; failure results in the user being reduced to ash. Even success invites madness—the Titan's sentience whispers of endless conquest, eroding the wielder's will until they become a vessel for its rage. Historical accounts from the Cataclysm describe it rampaging unchecked, its eruptions destabilizing Aetheric Veins and contributing to the Shattered Stars. Netherkin cults revere it as a god, often attempting rituals to corrupt it further, turning it against Terra's surface dwellers.
Location Rumors
Sealed in the deepest chambers of the Ironcrag Depths, beneath Skyend's volcanic ranges, the Titan lies dormant in a tomb of solidified magma. Access requires navigating forge traps and elemental guardians, with seismic activity hinting at its restless stirrings. Arcanum expeditions have probed the site, but none return intact—whispers suggest the Titan feeds on intruders, growing stronger with each failed incursion.
They are still many undocumented, many yet to be unearthed, buried deep, waiting to be unearthed...
P.s Host may or may not come in contact with all of this relics. Tis just to show how devastating apocalypse relics are and their uses