The Silver Spoon
"A child’s tale says it stirs porridge by thought alone. The truth? It stirs the marrow of the mind until it splits."
The Silver Spoon is one of Everwealth’s strangest relics, a modest utensil of gleaming silver whose reputation vastly outweighs its size. Forged in The Lost Ages by psionic mages, whose disciplines have all but vanished, it embodies the lost art of thought-made-magick; Already a niche discipline before The Great Schism ripped the world apart like wet paper. The spoon grants its wielder extraordinary telekinetic ability, amplifying even the weakest psychic spark into the strength to hurl boulders, topple gates, or suspend armies of arrows mid-flight. But every act bears a cost. The Silver Spoon does not merely channel the mind, it devours it if relied on too frequently. Its power leeches focus, saps blood, and burns brain pathways until its wielder is left staggering, bleeding from the nose, or seizing in fitful agony all with little-to-no warning, delivering a sudden, debilitating injury if you're lucky; Left foaming at the mouth, mentally crippled unable to form the words to beg for death, should you not be so lucky. Some lived long enough to be remembered as powerful forces on the battlefield before safely passing the relic on, others died twitching face-down in the cold, bleeding from the ears spoon still in hand. Across centuries, the Silver Spoon has slipped into folklore as both cautionary symbol and aspirational token. In children’s stories, it stirs stewpots without fire. In psychic cults, it is whispered to be the key to awakening hidden talents. And in scholarly records, it is catalogued as one of the few surviving psionic relics of the Lost Ages, proof that not all power flows from magick.
Mechanics & Inner Workings
- Telekinetic Amplification: Grants the wielder immense control over objects, magnifying their innate mental strength. Even novices can lift stone or steel.
- Overload Cost: Sustained use induces fatigue, migraines, hemorrhage, seizures, strokes, and eventual brain death. The more delicate the use, the more taxing the strain.
- Psionic Resonance: The spoon “echoes” the wielder’s focus. Clarity of mind yields precise control; scattered thought results in violent, unfocused bursts.
- No Spark of Its Own: It cannot grant telekinesis where none exists, it only magnifies. The dormant or the untrained suffer doubly, as their minds tear under strain.
Manufacturing process
The Silver Spoon is a paradox of craft, it is not forged of steel or enchanted by glyph, but a simple silver spoon enchanted with thought. Ancient psionic mages of Tarmahc and early Chikaran enclaves are said to have “poured” their collective focus into its form, molding molten silver through sheer will before tempering it in the stillness of a silent chamber. The final act was the embedding of a phoenix feather’s nerve-filament, not for fire, but for its ability to channel the nervous spark. This single act gave the spoon its fatal brilliance: it does not just carry thought, it demands it.
History
Legends of the Silver Spoon stretch back to the middle years of The Lost Ages, over one-thousand years ago. Some chronicles claim it was first wielded by a monk of this order of mind-mages who defended an entire abbey with nothing but thought, flinging hundreds of invaders into rivers with invisible fists. Others trace its presence to the kitchens of Tarmahc nobility, where it was mocked as a Jesters' parlor trick before accidents rendered half a dining hall crippled. During The Great Schism, the spoon vanished into rumor, resurfacing in different centuries with different wielders. A psychic assassin who collapsed city walls in 213 C.A. A child prodigy who raised all the cutlery in Middleglade skyward before her skull burst. A cult that believed it to be “the first utensil of gods.” Each appearance added to its mystique, until it became a staple of Everwealth’s folklore. Today, it is whispered of as both relic and riddle, the smallest weapon capable of the greatest violence.
Significance
To scholars, the Silver Spoon is a vital artifact, proof that psionic magicks once rivaled other disciplines in scope and potency. To commoners, it is a symbol of covetous folly, a reminder that even the simplest tool can hold infinite danger. To some psychic cults or sects devoted to unearthing its buried secrets, it remains a holy grail, a utensil of transcendence, carried not in reliquaries but in bedtime stories and superstition.
Creation Date
Estimated to have been forged in the early Lost Ages, c. 250-300 L.A. by psionic practitioners in Tarmahc.
Rarity
Unique. Only one Silver Spoon is believed to exist.
Weight
0.2 lbs, light as any dining utensil, misleading in its lethality.
Dimensions
6 inches with a bowl 2 inches across, slightly deep. The handle is 4 inches, faint knotwork etching suggestive of psionic waves.
Base Price
Beyond valuation. Its symbolic and historical weight far outweighs any kingdom’s purse.
Raw materials & Components
- Pure silver, refined to mirror brightness.
- Psionic imprinting, the thought-forms of multiple mages pressed into its making.
Tools
- Silent forges with null-wards.
- Psychic focus chambers lined with obsidian.
- No hammers, no chisels, the Silver Spoon was “willed” into final shape.
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