Item: Message Box

• Message boxes are also artifacts from the Great Mages of Tayke. With travel long and words often miss-remembered, the mages felt a need to rectify such things. The mages started with the simple knowledge that music and phrases could be impressed upon items. From there they developed a way to capture the image of the speaker using small illusions captured by magic. The long messages were the hardest. But after much trial and error they developed the magic box.

• The box is usually a small cube made of jade or quartz (which can be used more then once). Tayke writing of who made it, fanciful pictures or seals are just some of the decorations that cover the faces of the palm sized box.

• The message can be anywhere up to ten minutes long with a ghostly image projected from the box. Some use them for trade or treaties, others use if for messages to love ones. Some of the special ones allow questions to be asked of the illusion as well. But these type were far rarer then the others for the magic was harder to cast and required a very talented mage. When the magic is cast a person or people are specified and when they touch the cube the message activates.

• Few of these boxes exist in the time of the High King's Sword and the ability to cast the messages has been lost to time. If one was found it would be worth a great deal of money. Or perhaps the box with its message is awaken with the touch of a member of the party! Now wouldn't that be fun to explain.