Brumestone is a mineral that, when properly enchanted, can be controlled as it levitates in the air.[1] The arcane magical input allows control of the level of buoyancy.[2] When the input of arcane magic is withdrawn, the brumestone naturally remains hovering in place, although any weight placed upon it will cause it to gradually sink.[3]
Description[]
Massive quantities of brumestone holding a flying city aloft during the Age of Arcanum, by Robin Olausson.[art 2]
Brumestone is a bluish stone or mineral that a very basic, simple enchantment can cause to lift.[4] It glows with a quartz-like translucence.[5] Once enchanted, the levitating rock can be mounted to structures and lift them into the air. A skyship is typically mounted with three large brumestones, which allow it to carry up to ten tons of cargo while still maintaining flight.[1]
Usage[]
During the Age of Arcanum, the knowledge of how to enchant brumestone was widespread, allowing it to be created in massive quantities. This abundance was used to create the great flying cities of the era: Aeor, Zemniaz, and Kethesk. Beauregard Lionett recalled that only a handful of cities were so elevated.[6] Caleb Widogast's understanding was that those three had cornered the market on brumestone and therefore could afford to hold their entire cities aloft.[7] However, another city, Avalir, had been built on a mountain loaded with veins of brumestone and the mage Imyr Por'co was thus able to lift the city to the sky.[8][9] And several years after Beau and Caleb's recollections, during which time Essek Thelyss had delved into Aeor, Essek reported that while Aeor was the most advanced of the flying cities of its age, it was "one of many".[10]
In that age, brumestone was not exclusively used to make cities fly. Aeor also had a form of elevator called "brume lifts", suggesting that they were likely powered using brumestones.[11] Imyr Por'co's granddaughter, Patia Por'co, had a rigid golden ring that floated and rotated around her neck using tiny brumestone crystals.[12] And in addition to flying cities, there were skyships in that era.[13]
In the Post-Divergence era, that knowledge has been largely lost. Until recently, only the Alsfarin Union, based in the city of Ank'Harel, knew the process, using the brumestones to create skyships.[14] They kept the enchantments a closely guarded secret. While the Alsfarin Union sold skyships to foreign businesses, they kept absolute control over the skyships' maintenance.[1] However, during the War of Ash and Light in Wildemount, the city of Hupperdook created small mobile skyships for use by the Dwendalian Empire.[15]
The city of Draconia, a fallen shard of the Arcanum-Age flying city Kethesk, had its brumestones mined to raise the city as an archipelago of flying islands.[16] When the city was destroyed by Vorugal during the Chroma Crisis, the brumestones were again repurposed by the Ravenites to build their new city of Xarzith Kitril. There, brumestones are used to hold gondolas aloft that carry goods and people across the city.[17]
Based on their name and their blue glow, the brumeskippers of Jrusar seem to use brumestone-related technology.[18]
In 843 PD, the party that would later be known as Bells Hells discovered grains of brumestone in crates while investigating possible thievery at Prudaj Textiles for Lord Ariks Eshteross.[19] The smuggled brumestone was used to create five crude devices that allowed the Shade Mother to fly.[20]
The Maiden's Wish casino in Kymal had a glass-bottomed sky bar that was partly supported by brumestone.[21]
Imahara Joe and Verna, at the behest of the Paragon's Call, were trying to create a brumestone nullifier that would suppress the mineral's effects within a 100-foot radius.[22]
During their battle against the Exandrian Accord, the Ruby Vanguard and their allies had prepared arcane cannons able to shoot distant Dispel Magic spells to neutralize the brumestone of the skyships approaching the Red Center.[23]
Trivia[]
- Brumestone's properties can be deactivated with magic, although reactivation is theoretically possible.[24]
- Under the surface of Ruidus there are teal-colored crystalline that are slightly similar to brumestone; however, while the latter tends to be more opaque, the former is glass-like.[25]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 See Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting, p. 93. See also Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn, p. 137.
- ↑ See "The Aurora Grows" (3x49) at 2:28:33.
- ↑ See "Red Moon Rising" (3x50) at 0:58:45.
- ↑ See "Dark Waters" (2x98) at 0:58:02.
- ↑ See "The Eve of the Red Moon" (3x81) at 1:33:01.
- ↑ Beau, with a History check of 31 in 836 PD, would know a lot. See "Lingering Wounds" (2x89) at 0:41:18.
- ↑ See "Dark Waters" (2x98) at 0:57:48.
- ↑ See "Excelsior" (E3x01) at 1:58:41. See also 2:35:26.
- ↑ See "Bitterness and Dread" (E3x02) at 1:04:40.
- ↑ See "Shadows New and Old" (3x96) at 1:32:11.
- ↑ See "Hell or High Water" (2x136) at 1:24:54.
- ↑ See "Excelsior" (E3x01) at 1:52:10.
- ↑ See "Excelsior" (E3x01) at 2:25:42.
- ↑ See "On the Trail of a Killer" (3x04) at 2:10:13. The guild is the only builder of skyships in Exandria
- ↑ See "Family Gathering" (2x71) at 0:39:57.
- ↑ See Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, p. 20.
- ↑ See Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, p. 148.
- ↑ See "Reunited" (3x64) from 1:21:22 through 1:23:22.
- ↑ FCG looks at the residue and magically identifies it as brumestone. See "Trial by Firelight" (3x02) from 2:46:21 through 2:48:28.
- ↑ See "The Shade Mother" (3x16) at 37:40.
- ↑ See "Exandria Unlimited: Kymal, Part 1" (E2x01) at 4:22:36.
- ↑ See "Embattled in Bassuras" (3x70) at 3:15:00.
- ↑ See "Assault on the Malleus Key" (3x113) at 2:14:13.
- ↑ See "Assault on the Malleus Key" (3x113) at 2:16:59. One of the arcanists tries to reactivate the recently Dispelled brumestone of the skyship.
- ↑ See "The Eve of the Red Moon" (3x81) at 1:32:50.
Art:
- ↑ Official art of Brumestone, by Shaun Ellis (source). This file is a copyrighted work. Its use in this article is asserted to qualify as fair use of the material under United States copyright law.
- ↑ Massive quantities of brumestone holding a flying city aloft during the Age of Arcanum, by Robin Olausson (source). Used DM response with permission.