Obsidian Spindle

Destruction

• A mythic creature must use it to weave a closed-loop timeline, creating a paradox so perfect that it collapses the spindle’s quantum identity.
• Alternatively, it may be cast into the gravitational well of a black star on the Ethereal Plane, in a ritual overseen by at least one ascended godling or spell weaver.

"It spins still, somewhere in the dark. Not to weave cloth—but fate." —Archivist Veriless, Arcanamirium Black Index

Prehistory (~-10,000 AR or earlier) — The Spell Weaver Empire

•  The Obsidian Spindle was created by the Spell Weavers as part of a triad of arcano-temporal stabilizers meant to synchronize leyline patterns across multiple realities. The Spindle’s original purpose was to regulate spellweave density, functioning like a tuning fork for the Living Weave.
• Forged from voidglass, time-frozen starmetal, and an unknown extradimensional crystal, the Spindle was keyed to respond to intelligent life, particularly those sensitive to the Weave.
• The Spell Weavers used the Spindle during their Convergence experiments, trying to merge alternate timelines into a singular perfect pattern. When the Fracture occurred—a catastrophic breakdown of that experiment—the spindle was lost, sealed in an unstable time-pocket beneath what would become the Darklands.

Post-Earthfall (~-5000 AR) — The Shrouded Age

• As Earthfall devastated surface civilizations, surviving elven enclaves fled underground. In the ruins beneath Sekamina, some came into contact with the dormant spindle.
• Exposure to its residual energies began warping the magical essence of these elves. Their innate connection to natural arcana was distorted, triggering physical and spiritual transformation. This is believed by spindle cultists (and some surface arcanists) to be the true origin of the drow—a transformation catalyzed by the spindle's resonance rather than purely divine or demonic forces.
• During this time, several glyphs of power from the spindle’s outer housing were removed and scattered, believed to hold keys to unlocking its full potential—or sealing it forever.

Drow Ascendancy (~-4000 to -1000 AR) — The Denial

• As drow culture cemented around demon worship and matriarchal tyranny, the Spindle was erased from official history. Its influence was declared heretical.
• However, a secret caste of scholars and sorcerers kept spindle lore alive, referring to it as the "Sixth Heart" or the "First Weave Mother." These Weavemarked cults quietly formed, revering the spindle not as a tool—but as a seed of arcane rebirth.
• Some houses tried to weaponize the spindle’s echoes to accelerate bloodline mutations or produce more powerful sorcerers—but results were volatile and often fatal.

Modern Era (4700s AR–Present) — The Resonance Returns

• Ley lines near Kaer Maga, Sekamina, and the Mwangi Expanse have begun to resonate unpredictably, matching patterns found in ancient Spell Weaver matrices.
• Surface arcanists from the Arcanamirium and Lorespire Complex have detected "pulse signatures" in deep strata corresponding to spindle harmonics. Some believe the Spindle is awakening—or that someone is trying to restart it.
• Several Weavemarked drow have been born in disparate parts of the world—despite no known exposure to the artifact—suggesting the spindle may now influence bloodlines at a global level.
• Cult activity around the Spindle has risen, with some factions attempting to resurrect the Spell Weavers using Weavemarked hosts.

Current Status

• The Spindle remains hidden deep beneath the Darklands, entombed in a chronostatic vault within a ruin known as Karsik'zil’Nar ("The Silent Labyrinth").
• It is guarded by temporal constructs and dimensional fractures, only accessible at certain cosmic alignments or by Weavemarked keys.
• It still spins. Slowly. Quietly. Not idle—but waiting.