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Shield Crystals

Summary

Shield crystals are Barrier-linked crystals, pylon components, keys, figurehead motifs, underwater mission objectives, and the material of Tremon’s skull and altered body.

Known Details

  • A shield crystal was used by Geldrin as a key to open a locked trapdoor.
  • Sickness near pylon cities may resemble shield crystal colour or effects.
  • Geldrin’s crystal shard caused a stronger smaller Barrier flicker effect near Seaward.
  • A wooden shield crystal figurehead appeared on the Pride of the Penta Cities.
  • The underwater shield crystal on day 22 was approximately one metre square.
  • The sea shield crystal was one major priority for Pact and Barrier repair.
  • The retrieved underwater shield crystal was given to Xinquiss/Zinquiss. On Day 33, Xinquiss/Zinquiss had it in Hartwall; the party agreed to drop off a piece, and Wrath the Black Dragonborn, recorded there as Wrath, later helped hide the crystal through a trapdoor. User clarification confirms the Justicars wanted the crystal, not Xinquiss/Zinquiss personally.
  • Day 57 Infestus’s wife gave the party a powerful charged shield crystal and scrolls before sending them to Brass City.
  • Day 57 Brass City lore says a body was being crafted out of shield crystal as a focusing crystal and stored in one of the four great minarets.
  • Day 57 an Earth-plane table held a shield crystal identified as a piece of Tremon.
  • Day 57 Ennui, had control over crystals; Azar Nuri’s interest in the crystal body makes shield crystals part of the current body/godhood threat.
  • Day 58 located Tremon’s body in Stolchar’s tower: a huge carcass with detached legs, missing head, at least one missing arm, and a torso reshaped into faceted inward-reflecting crystal reminiscent of shield or pylon crystal.
  • The source notes establish the material link: Tremon’s skull is made from shield crystal, a shield crystal is identified as a piece of Tremon, Tremon’s altered body is reshaped into shield/pylon-like crystal, and Day 34 skull lore links Tremon/Tremon to the moon/Tri-moon. The notes usually describe the material as shield crystal, crystal, Tremon material, or moon/Tri-moon material rather than using a fixed term such as Tri-moon rock.
  • Day 63 reports a worn-out shield crystal in Envy’s old throne room. The party has not tested whether it can be repaired or used in the former sphinx trap, and also discussed powering a temporary anti-enthrallment barrier with its own power crystal and Geldrin’s armour.

Timeline

  • day-06: Shield crystal is used as a key and tied to sickness questions.
  • day-13: A crystal shard interacts with Seaward pylon flickers.
  • day-17: Sea shield crystal becomes a priority.
  • day-22: The party fights at the underwater crystal site and recovers loot.
  • day-33: Xinquiss/Zinquiss has the recovered underwater shield crystal in Hartwall, and Wrath the Black Dragonborn, recorded there as Wrath, helps hide the crystal while Justicars search for it.
  • day-57: Brass City reveals a shield-crystal body/focusing crystal, a Tremon piece, and Ennui’s crystal control.
  • day-58: The party finds Tremon’s altered body in Stolchar’s tower, clarifying that the shield-crystal body thread is physically tied to Tremon’s missing body.

Open Questions

  • Are shield crystals batteries, regulators, keys, toxins, or all of these?
  • Where exactly did Xinquiss/Zinquiss and Wrath the Black Dragonborn hide the recovered underwater shield crystal after the Hartwall auction?
  • Is the Brass City shield-crystal body a prison device, focusing crystal, godhood vessel, Tremon’s altered body, Azar Nuri’s intended entrapment device, or some overlap of these?