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Once a figurehead has been consecrated and mounted, the ship's sea spirit can be summoned. The figurehead can also store power as the ship travels over the oceans; if it runs out of power while casting seaspells, the figurehead will break.
Once a figurehead has been consecrated and mounted, the ship's sea spirit can be summoned. The figurehead can also store power as the ship travels over the oceans; if it runs out of power while casting seaspells, the figurehead will break.


Figureheads can be bought from [[Vedel]] or the Fine [[Cyrene]] Woodcrafts shop.
Figureheads can be bought from [[Vedel]], the Fine [[Cyrene]] Woodcrafts shop or [[Aeron|Eleusian Woodcrafts]].


==Figureheads==
==Figureheads==
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;Figurehead of the Sentaari
;Figurehead of the Sentaari
: The head and torso of a dragon has been masterfully carved out of mahogany. Thousands upon thousands of tiny scales have been etched into the wood, giving it a lifelike appearance as the head curves down, baring teeth in a snarl and protecting what it is holding. The dragon's arms are extended to the front, its claws grasping a shield made out of ivory. On the front of the shield is red field with a gold border, and in the middle is a blooming silver rose. Hidden behind the shield is carved a phoenix carrying a rose.
: The head and torso of a dragon has been masterfully carved out of mahogany. Thousands upon thousands of tiny scales have been etched into the wood, giving it a lifelike appearance as the head curves down, baring teeth in a snarl and protecting what it is holding. The dragon's arms are extended to the front, its claws grasping a shield made out of ivory. On the front of the shield is red field with a gold border, and in the middle is a blooming silver rose. Hidden behind the shield is carved a phoenix carrying a rose.
;Enraptured Atavian Figurehead
: A soft blush gives life to the russet tones of this flawlessly carved, rosewood figurehead. The feminine curves of an Atavian woman rise up along the arc of the prow, her immense wings spread behind to embrace the hull. Arms outstretched, palms to the sky, an enraptured countenance envelopes an upturned face. Shattered steel shackles, the likely object of the ecstatic demeanour, dangle from delicate wrists to rattle feebly in the wind. Sapphire lacquer adds a gleaming touch of colour to flowing robes wrapped loosely around a toned body. Seated within the right hand, a meticulously hewn raven casts its ebon gaze out to sea.


;Noble Kirin Figurehead
;Noble Kirin Figurehead
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;Sea-hardened, Skeletal Figurehead  
;Sea-hardened, Skeletal Figurehead  
 
: Masterfully crafted from driftwood pieces, the massive bust of an intimidating skeleton is the focal point of this fully functional work of art. The hips and legs of the skeleton fade seamlessly into the prow of the ship, giving the impression of a rising manifestation of the ship's spirit. Clutched in the skeleton's gnarled hands are five symbolic skulls, each representing an inferior counterpart, from one silenced by a spear through its jaw to the charcoaled, oaken spikes protruding from the eye sockets of another. Carefully preserved with natural beeswax, the slightly darkened wood and soft shine lend the splintered, driftwood bones a still-decomposing look. As a final touch, hanging from the skeleton's neck on a crude, sea grass cord is a small, handsomely crafted sapphire falcon with extended wings.
;Soaring Angel Figurehead


;Undead Horse Figurehead  
;Undead Horse Figurehead  
: ''Reward from [[Maelstrom]] during the undead invasion of 684 AF.''  
: ''Reward from [[Maelstrom]] during the undead invasion of 684 AF.''  
: Carved from sturdy larch and painstakingly painted in varying hues of blues and white, an undead equine head leaps from tumultuous rushes of water to form this figurehead. The rounded forms of hundreds of tiny foaming bubbles swirl in the churning flocculence of a wave's crest, the white paint brightly accented against the deep azure of the sea spray. Leaping forward on a rush of frothing seafoam, a putrifying muzzle reveals cracked, yellowed teeth through large segments of missing flesh. Only one ear remains, half-masticated and shredded into stringy tatters. Following a diagonal line cutting between the eyes, the left portion is skeletal, strands of limp sea weed hanging from the occular cavity.
: Carved from sturdy larch and painstakingly painted in varying hues of blues and white, an undead equine head leaps from tumultuous rushes of water to form this figurehead. The rounded forms of hundreds of tiny foaming bubbles swirl in the churning flocculence of a wave's crest, the white paint brightly accented against the deep azure of the sea spray. Leaping forward on a rush of frothing seafoam, a putrifying muzzle reveals cracked, yellowed teeth through large segments of missing flesh. Only one ear remains, half-masticated and shredded into stringy tatters. Following a diagonal line cutting between the eyes, the left portion is skeletal, strands of limp sea weed hanging from the occular cavity.
;Soaring Angel Figurehead
: ''Sold by [[Lindire]] at the [[Itinerant Bazaar]].''
: Variegated shades of pale and bleached poplar ripple through the flared wings of this fanciful figurehead. Stylised with atavian features, the pointed nose and elegant slope of the young maiden's forehead are raised skyward, her eyes closed in wistful bliss, while her billowing robes swathe her form in folds of polished, rounded wood. Her hands clasp a sceptre against her bosom, and her left foot is lifted as though to step towards the heavens, dainty and pointed.


;Eerie Arachnid Figurehead  
;Eerie Arachnid Figurehead  
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: ''Sold by [[Lindire]] at the [[Itinerant Bazaar]].''
: ''Sold by [[Lindire]] at the [[Itinerant Bazaar]].''
: Buffed smooth, plates of oak armour the body of this blackened scorpion figurehead. Thick varnish glosses the carapace and darkens the wood, the underbelly of the arthropod bleached to a pale hue that extends along its eight, spindly legs. From the base of the upper abdomen, a long tail curves over its body and ends in a vicious stinger.
: Buffed smooth, plates of oak armour the body of this blackened scorpion figurehead. Thick varnish glosses the carapace and darkens the wood, the underbelly of the arthropod bleached to a pale hue that extends along its eight, spindly legs. From the base of the upper abdomen, a long tail curves over its body and ends in a vicious stinger.
;Terrifying Kraken Figurehead
: ''Sold by [[Lindire]] at the [[Itinerant Bazaar]].''
: Thick tentacles writhe around the darkened form of a monstrous kraken, chiselled to life-like perfection from a block of solid teak. Polished to a high sheen, this nightmarish figurehead details the miniaturised appearance of the underwater creature down to the smallest incision; vicious chitinous barbs stab from a rigid scaled fin behind its misshapen head and run down the flailing lengths of eight sinewy limbs, each equipped with viscous suckers the size of saucers. Reminiscient of a massive raptor's beak, a baleful maw protrudes from the draconic skull of the kraken and sits beneath a pair of inky eyes that seethes at its surroundings with sheer predatory malice.
;Enigmatic Owl Figurehead
: ''Sold by [[Lindire]] at the [[Itinerant Bazaar]].''
: Regal benevolence and brooding contemplation mingle into a wash of enigmatic wisdom across the figurehead's visage, her solemn eyes looking beyond her surroundings as though many multiverses overlapped in her sight. Etched with each individual vane, her feathers ruffle free, caught in an ever present gale, and the delicate span of her wings captures and moulds the air currents to her will, unphased by its strength. Dark patterning stains the extended talons, the maker's tears permanently soaked into the owl's claws.


[[Category: Ship Equipment]]
[[Category: Ship Equipment]]
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