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The Black Box

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The Black Boxes are basically portable.... well, portals that the soldiers of the undead use to mobilize their forces or bring "recruits" back to Lacum to be reanimated. Dozens of would-be necromancers managed to steal some of the boxes in the hopes of taking control of a portion of Lacum's armies for themselves, unfortunately this backfired so now there are dozens of Black boxes scattered throughout the land in addition to the ones still being used. Collectors, looters or even passing travelers who discover the lost boxes are unaware of what they have found and take them either to sell or just hold onto as a decoration for their home.

However there are rules to the use of the Black Boxes

1st: Living beings can only open the box if they are near death or under the control of the Harbinger of Fear (Whom rules over the undead). There are ways to "fool" the box to be opened, using magic that is similar to necromancy for example. Like bringing a statue or a pile of mud to life, as long as it's something that shouldn't be alive but is, it'll count

2nd: Once the box is opened it will remain opened until the same person closes it or the box is destroyed

3rd: Those who specialize in or have a gift for Clerical magic AKA Holy magic cannot use the box whether to open it or step through it's portal even if its already opened

4th: The boxes can only be destroyed with dark magic, they are embedded with a ward that protect the boxes from all other forms of magic including and especially clerical magic

The boxes have minds of their own or rather they are an unlucky bunch of necromancers who had their souls imprisoned to "power" the boxes. The boxes themselves can only be heard by eachother but their minds can be temporarily silenced should a powerful agent of the undead choose to communicate through them.

Lacum and the Black Boxes are © to me
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