The Dreamer’s Chonograph

Relic ••••

Grants access to the Dream, Moon, and Oineach purviews.

Unique power: Allows the wearer to appear as him or herself at any age for the cost of 1 legend. If the character holds the illusion for more than one scene, they must spend 1 willpower per scene after the first.

The Dreamer’s Chronograph is, by most accounts, a moonstone pendant cut to look like one of the phases of the moon. However, if one was to watch it carefully, over the course of several days, they would discover that the pendant is actually a magical representation of the moon, which waxes and wanes with the phases of the celestial body.

The Chronograph is said to have been pulled from the sky by a certain Welsh queen during the fatal birth-pains caused by her first child. Indeed, the child was blessed, so long as he wore this pendant, always appearing in the prime of his youth, even until the day of his death.

He was buried with the pendant, but it was at this time that another of the Chronograph’s powers was revealed. When the new queen, the Welsh King’s wife, first became betrothed to him, she was loathe to marry a man she had never met. Then, in her dreams a man came to her time and again. Always, he gifted her with kind words and pleasant nights. Then, on the day of her wedding, she spied the man again. The King was the very man who had been in the lady’s dreams time and again.

The queen thought nothing of this until the pendant her husband wore every day she had known him began to appear to her each night. Again and again she watched it pass through phases, mirroring the moon. Always, it was just out of her reach, just close enough to long for but not attain. Always she awoke just as her fingers found the glistening stone. Finally, one night, with tremendous strength of will, the queen forced her dream to continue past the dawn’s first rays, long enough for her hand to grasp the pendant. When she awoke, there was the pendant nestled in the palm of her hand.

From that day until the birth of her own grandson, the queen kept the pendant, wearing it as her husband did. While she could not access its powers, she never suffered from a single nightmare so long as she possessed it. On her grandson’s sixteenth birthday, she passed it to him. It was less than a year that he held the pendant before he passed it on to a scullery maid whose charms lay more in her blouse than in her head. From there, the pendant was lost.

The Chronograph has appeared and vanished like the face of the moon during the time between then and now, but it has found a home with Ash Kelly, Scion of Aranrhiod, in recent years. Aranrhiod, the very same who birthed that certain Welsh queen, and claimed the queen’s son as her own, had mothered the young Scion who now carries the Chronograph, and it is believed that it is in Aranrhiod’s possession that the Chronograph has been hidden during the times in which it has been absent from the world.