Eyes of Glass

An Artisan came to me last night. He had been experimenting, trying to create a weapon fit to defend against the weavers. It was the hundredth time I had heard such a suggestion, and I almost paid him no mind. It seems every inventor on Iris wishes to use their fear and skill to create a weapon fit to kill monsters hiding as humans, but if such a thing were so easy, why had they not done it before? Hoaxes and soliciting greedsmen nearly forced my ignorance, but the man spoke on. 

Glass eyes, he told me. He could create eyes of sage sand and weaver blood. 

“I will not know their powers until they are made,” he told me, “but I can make them, and I can give them to you.”

How powerful a proposition, but how distant a possibility. Could this man, great Artisan that he was, create eyes to empower the wielder? I asked myself that question many times and then asked myself an entirely different one. What would the Lord Keepers of old do if given such a proposition? I agreed to fund this man. He’ll make me twenty sets of eyes, each pair using more affix blood in the mixture.

Who knows if such things will work? The idea seems so beyond reality, but the weavers have distorted all of what we think real. I may be investing into nothing more than glass balls, but on the chance I am not, Burima is lucky the man went to me first.

— Lord Keeper Eidel Burima, NCY 28