The Lost Magic of the Demon Age

The Necromancer Ciapac Heteraki of Xiloxahual told a story of having found a Crypt of the Demon Age, a ruined set of chambers under a glacier where the small streams started the river. Inside he found some artifacts, including a Servant that nearly destroyed him. In his escape, the glacier collapsed and crushed the stream, burying the Crypt. He came away with a Force Crown and a peculiar box with stubby projections and black mirrored surface like polished obsidian. The box was a mystery and the Force Crown a tribute to his Lords, the Blighted Heteraki Vampires of Xiloxahual under Weymai, their Queen. The box became one focus of his Corruption ( Crystal and Corruption ): Obsessed with the thing, the mysteries and wonders of the Demon Age. His necromantic magics could not reach back into that distant a past. His readings ending in cold and dark for thousands of years. He sought other sources.

The curse of Necromancy consumes my body with weakened and trembling limbs even when grafted with Ripped Tissues and potions. Dissipation and fevers not even stopped by the transformation drain me. Two other things consume me - my service to my Lords - which I bind tight as a blood thrall, the sips my Lords grant me are only thing to restore strength and coordination for a few hours. And the burning need to know more, and possess whatever lore of the Demon Age! My triumph and failure! I found I could restore charge to the drained Force Crown by supply of Orange lightning Arcane Crystal. The cursed Box when supplied with enough Orange crystal, brought forth a false Ghost, an animated illusion creature unknown to even the Lords, speaking a language none knew. I must know! None now know magics of lightning control beyond the most basic and destructive. I will journey to the Great King and ask the Harrower to grant me passage to the Underworld in physical body, that I might have enough time to dig in the lost millennia in the Citadels and find the Box's language and creators!

Ciapac's notes

Ciapac Heteraki of Xiloxahual and the Demon Age Devices

Manufacturing

How these things were made, and many Demon Age materials are lost and unknown. Demon Scale is one of the most abundant materials - hard with some give, frequently white but sometimes of different colors. An oily feel that is neither warm nor cold and does not crack under hammer blows. It may be drilled or sawed and so shaped into a fine scale armor that is light, durable and turns blows better than steel plate but less than Dragonhide.

Access & Availability

It is possible that some Demon Age crypt contains the secrets. The allure causes a multitude to search the wilds, plunge into caves and caverns and seek high and low for the location of a Crypt. The many treasures, wonders and secrets draw adventurers, along with rich and powerful to fund their expeditions. There are many hazards, guardians, rivals, and defensive magics to the Crypts that limit how many return.

Discovery

It is known by the scholars in the many lands of the Inner Sea that the Lightning Crystal can restore a charge, at roughly one inch of crystal giving one charge. Of course work with large amounts of Crystal produce Corruption. No other Magics, save lightning spirits themselves produce charge. The spirits will not willing give up the secrets the Demon Age used to chain and command them. What magics the ancients of the Demon Age used, none now knows or recalls. It was not a thing The Sidereal Fae would understand or be concerned with, much less reveal to ephemerals if they possessed the lore. The Gods ended the Demon Age, and they likewise are content with the secrets buried and lost.