Bone band is a relic, one of the unique treasures Tellan, the Keeper of Tallies keeps among the Mnemoliths across every Unsealing. It holds an old piece of Covenant-stuff, the substance of the Seal-shards, bound into a band of bone. Its treasure spirit answers to Wefan, the Weaver.
Tellan records no maker, and the shard's first home is unknown. Cultivators of the Deep Hand tell their own story. They say it was bound in the Age of Odrin, on the ground where Odrin Half-Core laid his affinity over the stranded dead. There the dead rose on borrowed life, and Odrin's living folk faded. The cultivators say the ring remembers that lesson, and that its shard runs Umbra.
Whatever its birth, it teaches the same lesson. While it is held, the kingdom's mana income rises. But the spirit drinks from the living. Each turn its holder spends, some of the kingdom's people are simply gone. And every company in the holder's army grows frailer, of whatever people it is, except the restless dead, who have no life left for it to take.
A lord who raises the dead may find the bargain easy. A lord who keeps a living army pays for the ring in blood and in fields left untended.
Heaven weighs it as well. Holding it makes a kingdom heavier in Weight, and under the Law of Equals, stronger rivals come within reach.
Player-visible facts
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Use | Permanent |
| Battle item | No |