Guardian's Tear

The Guardian’s Tear is a legendary crystalline artefact suffused with the raw essence of the Art. Revered by sages and feared by tyrants, the Tear has appeared at pivotal moments in Faerûn’s history, most often in the hands of those chosen to preserve life, magic, or balance. Its radiant form is said to resonate in harmony with Mystra’s Weave itself, though its origins are ancient enough to predate many written records.
  The Tear is known for its gentle warmth and inner pulse of silver light, shifting and glowing like a star trapped within crystal. Whether found as a handheld gem or as a suspended orb taller than a person, the Tear is immediately recognisable by the quiet thrum of magic that surrounds it.
 

Appearance

The Guardian’s Tear can alter its size at the will of its bearer, ranging from a fifteen centimetre gemstone to a massive one hundred and fifty centimetre crystalline sphere. In all forms it appears as a flawless teardrop of pale blue crystal threaded with silver veins of moving light. When dormant, the Tear emits a soft glow. When invoked, its inner radiance intensifies until the entire artefact seems alive with shifting motes of starlight.
 

Rarity

Legendary Artefact
 

Properties

  Artifact Nature: The Guardian’s Tear is a divine artefact containing immense raw power of the Weave. It cannot be destroyed by mortal means and can resize itself to suit the intentions of its bearer.
  Permanent Nondetection: The Tear is always under the effect of nondetection. No divination magic can scry, reveal, locate, or learn information about it. Any creature or object physically touching the crystal is also shielded by this effect.
  Aura of Disjunction: Any creature holding the Tear is continuously affected as if under the spell dispel magic. This does not interfere with the internal workings of the Elyza’s Wake engine when the Tear is installed within it.
  Sanctifying Presence: Any creature within thirty feet of the Tear is treated as though under the effect of remove curse. Any creature that directly touches the Tear immediately receives a remove curse effect.
  Veil of the Art: Attempts to analyse the Tear through identify or similar magic reveal only the abilities listed here. Its deeper powers are locked behind years of study, attunement, or divine guidance, with only fragments of its true nature accessible to mortal understanding.
 

Special Note

As a divine artefact, the Guardian’s Tear can power the Elyza’s Wake, also called the Harbinger of Hope, without consuming or sacrificing magical items.