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The Winter Casket
Description and History
The Winter Casket is a holocron, believed to have been created by former Jedi and Kro Var witch Jadis Charn. It is said to contain her entire knowledge and learning, particularly in the arts of cryokinesis and shadow magick, enabling a hitherto unseen mastery of these forces.
A Jedi Seer of some repute in her time, Jadis Charn is recorded as having left the Order during the time of the Galactic Republic to dedicate herself to the study of particular branches of the Force. Eventually settling on the remote world of Kro Var, in the Unknown Regions, she is said to have integrated with the shamanistic Shapers of Kro Var becoming a powerful 'witch' with control over Winter itself.
Ushering in a continental ice age that only ended with her death, Charn reportedly transferred all of her knowledge and secrets into a casket that might endure through the ages, until one with her gifts might take up her legacy.
Contents
The holocron contains full information on the details and application of cryokinesis and shadow magick, enabling a user of sufficient skill and experience to progressively increase their mastery of both.
The shadow magick contents emphasise combining aspects of this with cryokinesis in unique ways, for example divining the future in a pane of ice or in clear water, conjuring weapons from ice itself, and travelling apace or teleporting short distance across ice or snow.
In addition to this general knowledge, it is rumoured that the Casket contains the secrets of the following specific abilities:
Frozen in Time
A force power by which the Casket can be used to freeze a single individual solid in ice. The target must be stationary. The effect on the victim is similar to that of carbon-freezing, with them essentially placed in hibernation inside the ice statute. The statue is unusually robust and resistant to heat, though it can it can be thawed naturally with perseverance or through a sufficiently strong application of the Force.
Communing with Jadis Charn
The Casket can enable the user to commune with the spirit of Jadis Charn herself, for tutelage, guidance and counsel. It is not clear whether or not Charn fell under the influence of the Dark Side, and whether the ritual to commune with her calls to her Force ghost or instead draws on a dark spirit bound to the casket itself. This will only become clear when invoked for the first time.
The ritual, known as Winter's Call, is said to involve the Casket and the following incantation:
Across the years to times of old
to awake a power long since cold
Adam's flesh and Adam's bone
call to Winter's queen in throne
With creeping frost and icy splendour
invoke cold fire to make and mend her
hear the song and feel the breath
of Winter's queen who did cheat death
to awake a power long since cold
Adam's flesh and Adam's bone
call to Winter's queen in throne
With creeping frost and icy splendour
invoke cold fire to make and mend her
hear the song and feel the breath
of Winter's queen who did cheat death
Note: Neither of the above are meant for PvP. They are for fun, story use. Nothing more.
Intent
To create a write-up for a holocron to be sought and found by my Jedi, Dash Pavan, at the climax of his long journey to master his abilities.
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