Sihedron

Sihedron

(Magic item)

Aura (1E)

Overwhelming (all schools)

Caster Level (1E)

25

Type

Major artifact

Slot (1E)

None

Origin

Thassilon

Affiliation

Xin

Source: The City Outside of Time, pg(s). 71–72

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For other meanings of "Sihedron", please see Sihedron (disambiguation).

The Sihedron, or Shattered Star, is a magical artifact of incredible power created by the archmage Xin, the founder of ancient Thassilon. Xin sundered it into seven shards, each made of a different skymetal, and reassembling these shards can unlock its full powers.

This article, after this point, contains spoilers for the following products: multiple events and encounters in the Shattered Star and Return of the Runelords Pathfinder Adventure Paths, as canonized by the Lost Omens World Guide.
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Each shard, however, carries a curse related to its associated sin. The curse may be suppressed by placing a specific type of aeon stone in the appropriate spot of the shard. Additionally, the magic effects of each shard are so strong that carrying more than two impedes the bearer, such as causing them to become nauseated.

Shards

Each of the seven shards of the Sihedron are associated with one of Xin's seven virtues of rule, which were corrupted into the seven sins of sin magic after which they are now named; one of the seven Thassilonian schools of magic; a type of skymetal; and a type of aeon stone that powers it, to be installed in its receptacle.

Name	Virtue	Magic	Skymetal	Aeon stone
Shard of Envy	Charity	Abjuration	Noqual	Dusty rose prism
Shard of Gluttony	Temperance	Necromancy	Inubrix	Pink rhomboid
Shard of Greed	Generosity	Transmutation	Adamantine	Pale blue rhomboid
Shard of Lust	Love	Enchantment	Djezet	Pink and green sphere
Shard of Pride	Humility	Illusion	Orichalcum	Scarlet and blue sphere
Shard of Sloth	Zeal	Conjuration	Abysium	Incandescent blue sphere
Shard of Wrath	Kindness	Evocation	Siccatite	Deep red sphere

History

The Sihedron was created during the Age of Legend by Xin, a powerful Azlanti wizard who had been exiled from his homeland to the northwestern coast of Avistan. He developed the Sihedron as a symbol of his mastery of the seven Thassilonian schools of magic, and shaped it in the form of the religious symbol of Lissala, which lacked the runes, markings, or hooked shapes later associated with Thassilon.

Xin also designed the Sihedron to represent the unification of the peoples of his new empire of Thassilon. The skymetals of each of the seven arms of the Sihedron also represented a different ancestry or ethnicity of his new empire, and their coexistence reflected the diversity and harmony that he perceived to be the foundations of Thassilon. Xin designed its powers to be most effective when wielded cooperatively by seven leaders who willingly and trustingly shared the item between them.

However, the reality of Xin's empire never lived up to the standards of his vision, and in Xin's paranoia he kept the Sihedron to himself; its shared powers were never truly employed during the empire's existence. His power was eventually usurped by the seven runelords. In -6420 AR, an assassin targeted Xin as part of this rebellion; Xin instead destroyed himself and split the Sihedron into seven pieces.

Xin had arranged for his magical resurrection should the Sihedron ever be reassembled, but the runelords suspected his plot and split up Xin's artifact so that he could not rise upon its reconstruction. Each of them took the shard that corresponded to their own specialty.

Recent history

After the shards of the Sihedron were found and brought together by a group of adventurers in 4712 AR, Pathfinder Society Venture-Captain Sheila Heidmarch of the Varisian city of Magnimar called together the Sihedron Council to decide on what to do with the reassembled artifact. However, in 4713 AR, this project accidentally triggered the rise of the Isle of Xin off the coast of Varisia, which caused a tsunami whose power wreaked destruction as far away as Hermea.

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Usage and abilities

The disparate shards of the Sihedron must be gathered together and powered by the installation of seven aeon stones, with a different stone corresponding to each shard (see Shards).

The assembled Sihedron is activated by touching the center of its seven-pointed star and briefly concentrating upon it. The wielder chooses one of the star's points to be ascendant, which determines which point faces upward and confers an additional ability related to its associated virtue of rule.

Once activated, the Sihedron glows with yellow light, confers knowledge of all its powers and usage to the wielder, infuses them with constant magical healing and foresight, and follows the wielder by floating behind their head, including when the wielder teleports. If its wielder is killed, it also immediately and automatically resurrects them once per day.

The Sihedron's wielder can also transfer it to another willing being nearby via teleportation, an effect that also confers magical healing and foresight to both its sender and receiver.

Destruction

The Sihedron can be destroyed only by being crushed under the foot of the Oliphaunt of Jandelay while a person willingly wields it and is crushed along with it.

References

Paizo published a major article about the Sihedron in Shards of Sin, and an updated statblock with detailed description in The City Outside of Time.

For additional as-yet unincorporated sources about this subject, see the Meta page.