Luminary
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Overview
A luminary is a scarce device or resource the revolution needs for a working forge and for arming the drifts with enough weapons. At first, the Assembly is negotiating for Viscount Tecarus’s luminary while rejecting the idea of stealing Basgiath’s because of the danger to Navarre’s wards and civilians.
Tecarus’s luminary is delivered to Aretia and placed at the new forge above the city, shifting it from a diplomatic objective to part of Aretia’s war preparations.
Appearance
The luminary brought to Aretia is a ring nearly as tall as Sgaeyl and made of vibrant blue crystals.
Ownership or Custody
Viscount Tecarus controls the luminary the Assembly is trying to obtain, and his refusal leaves the revolution without the device it needs. Basgiath also has a luminary, but stealing it is rejected because doing so could endanger Navarre’s wards and civilians.
The available deal for Tecarus’s luminary is dangerous and limited: it involves Violet wielding lightning, and an earlier version would have let Aretia use the luminary only in Cordyn instead of taking it home.
Tecarus’s later terms would allow Aretia to bring the luminary back if Aretia aids him when called, arms the seaside drifts first, and lets him see Violet wield. Xaden rejects the deal because he believes Tecarus intends to keep Violet as a weapon, while Brennan and Kylynn treat the luminary as a problem with no known substitute.
Tecarus openly confirms that the luminary is in his possession and that Violet’s party wants it. He refuses to begin negotiations until Violet proves her lightning in the gaming arena.
After Violet survives the arena, Tecarus still controls the luminary and says the performance only opened discussions. By the end of the negotiations, he offers to let Aretia leave with it if Aretia also accepts the hundred flier cadets and the broader training obligation.
The luminary is delivered to Aretia three nights before Violet’s ascent to the new forge site. It is placed in an offshoot of the valley above the city where the forge is located.
Xaden says Tecarus had never intended to give up the luminary during the earlier betrothal arrangement with Cat. Tecarus wanted it used in Cordyn instead, which would not have solved Aretia’s need to possess a working luminary for its own forge.
Function, Rules, and Limitations
A luminary intensifies dragonfire until it is hot enough to smelt alloy into weapons that can kill venin. Brennan says obtaining one is the revolution’s only immediate way to keep forging enough daggers.
Aretia has dragons capable of firing a crucible, but dragonfire alone is not enough for the alloy work the revolution needs. Without a luminary to intensify that heat, Aretia cannot make more alloy weapons.
Important Uses
After Aretia wins the luminary from the Cordyn trip, the forge produces enough alloy-hilted daggers to equip every rider with multiple weapons.