

The Wind Staff in Dragon Knights functions this way for Cesia and her wind powers, even allowing her to resurrect people.In backstory, one such thing was used to make a good chunk of South America completely inaccessible. Then, Hei uses it to enhance his power to Reality Warper levels, enabling him to alter matter on a quantum level. Towards the end of the first series, Amber breaks it in pieces among her followers and uses the bulk of it to power the network of Dolls that guide Hei through the Gate, but later she spontaneously pulls the complete Shard out of her pocket due to the strange properties of the Gate. The "Meteor Shard", a Plot Device recovered from Hell's Gate that changes hands a few times in Darker than Black.for a short time, after which they fall into a coma. When people listen to it, ordinary people gain esper powers and espers get their powers amplified.


Still, a respectable amount of heroes will rely on the Sword of Plot Advancement to complete their quest. Not entirely unrelated is the tendency of heroes to eschew these, somehow equating ancient relics of forgotten power with Hard Work Hardly Works.

#Cozy grove relic full#
It doesn't help that for some reason prophecies love to wax apocalyptic about how once Dark Lord Zerogeddon gets The Eye of Sorrow, his full powers will be restored and he will be unstoppable. You can also expect these to be weak spots in One Winged Angels and thus exceedingly evil Artifacts of Doom. It's not unheard of for disembodied organs and appendages to become Amplifier Artifacts if part of the owner's power is sealed inside it. Likely candidates for Amplifier Artifact are ancient swords, pendants, jewels, sets of armor, staves, petrified body parts and rings among others. It doesn't grant new super powers like a Ring of Power, Super Serum, Amulet of Concentrated Awesome or other form of Applied Phlebotinum, what it does is give the owner or wearer (this distinction is not a light one) a small or titanic boost to whatever powers they already possess, at times even activating latent ones. The Amplifier Artifact is one of the more useful, practical, and powerful accouterments in Fantasy and Speculative Fiction.
