Shadowstone
“Shadowstone—ancient seer magic used to store immense power.
Like bloodstone, yeah?
One inspired the other, so to speak. But shadowstone is far more powerful, and more pure.
— Isgarren and Rytlock Brimstone in Path of Divinity
The Shadowstone is a seer artifact which, according to Historian Tranton, was used to amplify the seers' magical abilities in order to create what eventually became their culmination of a method to store magic: the first Bloodstone. The Reforged Shadowstone appears to be able to contain excess magic within it and has sockets for four bloodstone slivers. Unlike the blood-red Bloodstone, the Shadowstone is yellow in color.
| There are multiple surviving shadowstones of different sizes around Tyria. A massive shadowstone powers up the Spire's Heart at the center of the World Spire in Amnytas. |
History[edit]
The seers created shadowstones during the previous dragonrise millennia ago. They were conduits used to amplify the seers' magical abilities and contain excess magic within them in order to create what eventually became the first Bloodstone. At least one shadowstone artifact had sockets for four bloodstone slivers.[1][2] Shadowstones allowed seers to amass reserves of magic to perform great incantations even beyond the elevated capabilities of the ancients.[3]
 Some time after being exiled from the seer horde by the doyen Sidony towards the end of the seer-mursaat war, the seer Isgarren recruited the mursaat Mabon to work on a massive shadowstone, the Spire's Heart, to power up the World Spire in the center of the levitating Amnytas. It was used to keep out threats from the Mists.[4][5] |
Burden of Choice[edit]
In 1329 AE the Pact Commander, who had encountered a high concentration of magic and was suffering from strange symptoms which included seeing visions of ley-line anomalies, met with Historian Tranton who had uncovered information about what he called the Shadowstone. The Commander was presented with an option to contain the excess magic in their body within a reforged Shadowstone.
Secrets of the Obscure[edit]
Visions of Eternity[edit]
Gallery[edit]
Spire's Heart housing a huge Shadowstone within the World Spire of Amnytas.
Related achievements[edit]
Anomalous Occurrences: Burden of Choice (10
)
The Doorstep of Divinity: 
Inert Shadowstone Shard — A treasured addition to the hoard of shinies.
Eternity's Garden: Questionable Choices — Against your better judgment, lick the shadowstone in Temple of Blessed Mantle. (1)
See also[edit]
- Associated items
Broken Shadowstone
Gift of Shadowstones
Mini Shadowstone Pet Rock- Reforged Shadowstone
Shadowstone Containment Frame
Shadowstone Fragment
Shadowstone Orb
References[edit]
- ^ Historian Tranton
- ^ Livia
- ^ Inert Shadowstone Shard
- ^ Aging Journal Entry
- ^ Hell Breaks Loose
- Mabon: While you kept Tyria safe from the threat of the dragon cycle, we watched you from the clouds.
- Mabon: Until recently, the World Spire has powered a shield that guarded this world from the Mists...to an extent.
- Mabon: The final dragon cycle weighed heavily on our ability to shield ourselves. Nightfall came, Balthazar... Tyria has suffered, still.
- Mabon: But when the cycle ended, the magical ecosystem was fractured. The lake stilled. And now...you can see to the bottom.
- Mabon: Aurene has begun to restabilize the system—I can feel her at work now. But until we mend the spire and our beacons...
