Lore24 Apr 13: Fingers of the Blessed

When people blessed with great magical powers die, their family takes great care to prevent their body being stolen. They are however, not always entirely successful. Bits and pieces of powerful sorcerers fetch quite a good price on the black market, and those learned in the magical arts can coax from but a single bone, a shadow of the powers its owner once commanded. Fingers are the easiest to cut off steal from a corpse, so any body-parts of dead sorcerers are referred to as the fingers of the blessed in colloquial speech.

Most sorcerers own at least a few of these “fingers”, as they are the easiest way for them to access powers they were not born with themselves. Of course careful study of the fingers is required, as the methods of calling forth those powers are unique to each individual the finger belonged to. These methods can be figured out, but that required knowing the time of the past owner’s birth and death, as well as an intimate knowledge of astrology. Attempting the wrong method can lead to catastrophic results, so it is not recommended to try to use fingers found randomly, or bought from untrustworthy sources. This of course doesn’t stop shady figures from selling fingers found in random tombs, or just straight-up fakes.

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