[table][row][/row][row][cell][h3][b]MAP OF[color=2e2c2c].[/color]THESEUS[/b][/h3][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][center][img] https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/891b43a9-2da0-4d3f-b0f7-c5b93e5ce642.jpg[/img][hr][i][sub]| The Boundless Lexicon |[/sub] "All that ever was, and all that will ever be, laid bare before us. Where would you like to go?"[/i][hr][sup][b]ORIGINS & CREATIONS:[/b] | Created by dozens of paranormals, brought together across time and infinite distance. Those who built it are scattered across the All-Verse, many have been lost to history, and more have yet to be born. | [b]TYPE:[/b] | All-Verse Navigation Device | [b]LOCATION:[/b] | Unknown | [b]NOTABLE OWNERS:[/b] | Hundreds, if not thousands have employed it across every era and rob from past to future, to travel the cosmos and chart the places unnamed by humanity. The greatest paranormal explorers to live since the All-Verse’s inception have relied on it to find their way. | [b]ABSTRACTION-GRANTING:[/b] | No | [color=2e2c2c].............................................................................[/color][/sup][/center][/cell][cell]The Map of Theseus is the work of lifetimes. Entire rooms stacked wall-to-wall with cosmological data, chronomancers folding time itself into celestial origami to maintain business relations, orange, red and white Adepts painstakingly laying countless joint-castings into lattice structures of crystals to emit light in just the right sequences. Vast collections of bound Apparitions exploited for their Abstractions, all to boost the power of the makers, channelers burnt to ash from exertion. The Map of Theseus is as old as humanity itself, and has been constructed by people in the pursuit of perfection. Thousands of people have held this cube in their hands, and a thousand more have inevitably contributed to its capabilities. The original makers of this artifact cannot be identified, as they were united across different worlds and have faded away to history. But their work will never be truly over. The Map of Theseus is a small cube adorned with glowing blue lines etched across its surface. Concealed within is a geometrically fathomless depth of data, spell work and craftsmanship designed to catalog the All-Verse. It is a paranormal supercomputer with many libraries worth of maps, charts, celestial coordinates and geographic lore waiting to be accessed. The Map of Theseus was named such for its inability to ever be complete, for just as the All-Verse is ever changing, so too will its archive never reach capacity. To use the Map of Theseus, a person only has to hold in their hand, and the cube will respond to their feelings of curiosity, their desire to explore and to know something. The artifact simply [i]knows[/i] that a person is trying to use it, and will respond in kind. The Map of Theseus currently has data for 7,892 unique worlds in the All-Verse, each with its own index ready for the owner’s viewing pleasure. Due to the sheer magnitude of the Map of Theseus' capabilities, and its specialized use as a tool for navigating something most people simply don't understand, it tends to attract a very particular brand of paranormals. Aimless explorers without a place in the simple world, knowledge hungry lunatics, artifact hunters with zealous ambition, and warlords looking to conquer entire realms.[/cell][/row][/table]