Pinnacle Of Chaos

CategoryArtifacts
Typeartifact, energy siphon
Forge-
EnchanterTaranorn
LocationLabyrinth of Enchantment

In 1127, the arch-magi Taranorn completed work on a device for tapping the energies of Chaos. Built with the help of enslaved earth elementals, the device was a 30' tall lava stone pinnacle inlaid with three entropy fragments. While it was being built, the mage conjured in fourteen slaadi; all but one perished in powering-up the Pinnacle. The surviving slaad, very cunning and intelligent, was a disguised black slaad named Ushgergoon. He offered to use his knowledge to help from his end, the Limbo side, providing the necessary fuel to activate Taranorn's toy.

Taking the entropic energy of hundreds of slaad, on 4 Artifice 1133, the Pinnacle of Chaos was ready for use. Before it could be used, Taranorn's twin sister, a mage favoring the side of negative entropy, entered the cavern of the Pinnacle. Hoping to destroy the dangerous device, she broke her staff of the magi, releasing its retributive strike. With the Pinnacle damaged, magical protections activated. While a force ward was coming into being, Ushgergoon came through the damaged Pinnacle. With his blade Oblivion, he finished off the wounded and dying sisters.

Under the ancient canopies of Nárfaltuin is a hidden passage to the Labyrinth of Enchantment. Built by the Elalmoth, its latest addition is an eerie pinnacle-like device embedded with three black crystals. A field of rainbow motes surrounds the pinnacle, forming some kind of impenetrable shield.

The chamber around us was scarred and burned from what appeared to be the effects of a powerful magical explosion. Tiny splinters of bone, metal, and wood were everywhere. A scrap of paper, probably from a journal, told about the misgivings of some mage and his/her dealings with a slaad named Ushgergoon.

- Ariel, of Squad X7E, from the Squad X7E Chronicles - "Tamperering with Chaos"

In 1814, Entropy cultists were tasked with getting the Pinnacle's entropy fragments. When the last was removed, the Pinnacle exploded, killing every living thing in the area. With a cloud of deadly magic swirling about the area, golems were sent in to get the entropy fragments. A decade later, these fragments found a new home inside of an Entropy Arch.