Whorled Beamknit
Heblin Arcane Focus & Tool
A unique and secret type of writing implement used by Heart-Seekers to create the cards used in their fortune telling traditions. To any outsider who may happen to see one, it's a fancy looking wand. If asked about it, they use the name "whorled beamknit", a meaningless term to others that explains nothing and can be used in conversation to redirect their focus.
Materials & Components
Each stylus can be constructed from nearly any material that can be infused and manipulated with arcana. Similar tools are used in various other practices, but these rustic implements are powerful in their own right and are usually made from natural materials like branches, stones, crystals, or even bones.
Construction
After gathering the desired materials a Heart-Seeker uses arcana to manipulate and transform them into a wand-like tool used to further channel their metaphysical will into acts of supernatural creation - specifically the prophetic decks of cards used by all Heart-Seekers.
Training & Use
The practice of crafting a wand goes back thousands or more years, likely to the first mages to channel the power of arcana. Many different traditions use them for many different purposes, however the heblin Heart-Seekers are definitely the most secretive about how they craft and use them. In fact, most outside of the tradition don't even know true Heart-Seekers exists, let alone that they use whorled beamknits at all.
In truth, the process is nearly identical to that of creating other magical implements in other traditions, wands, staves, rods, crystal orbs, and pendulums, but heblin have very little interaction with other metaphysical traditions and Heart-Seekers even less. What is truly unique to their methods are the ways in which they use their wands - they are used artistically and for creating other tools more widely used by heblin communities.
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