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-'''Icons''' are large constructs located on the plane of [[Nishnatoba]] composed of the residual magics and forces released there during the [[War of Humanity]]. The [[Pentad]] crafted the Icons to allow the [[:Category:Houses|House]] that was associated with it to tap into the latent power of the war ravaged plane and bestow benefits upon its members. While the Icon is tied to the land upon which it rests, it is capable of casting a shadow of itself upon the [[Prime Material Plane]] that acts as a planar gateway between the two planes of existence.
+'''House Icons''' were mighty constructs of power located on the plane of [[Nishnatoba]]. They were composed of residual magics and forces released there during the [[War of Humanity]]. In the fifth century AF, the [[Pentad]] crafted the icons, each associated with a [[:Category:Houses|Great House]], to tap into the latent power of the war ravaged plane, bestowing benefits upon their members. While the House icons were tied to the land upon which they rested on Nishnatoba, they each cast a shadow of themselves upon the [[Prime Material Plane]]. These 'icon shadows' allowed planar travel between the two planes of existence.
+The icons themselves, being constructs of energy, degraded slowly in strength due to the entropic resonance left behind by the war. The icons' ability to channel their benefits across the void between dimensions to its recipient House was tied to its strength. Benefits bestowed by an  icon could become erratic as the icon weakened, even fading if it became dormant. This required constant upkeep by the Houses. Upkeep required [[Iconic Shards]] placed in contact with the icon's true form until they were absorbed. If an icon degraded to half power it entered a point of stasis and ceased bestowing benefit.
+Attacking a House's icon became an accepted means of making war between Houses. Icon degradation could be increased through the employment of [[Icon Alchemists]], even unto collapse. Born from the power of the icons themselves, icon alchemists were denizens able to chip away at enemy House icons when commanded, and they were commanded so often. Though the icons were virtually invulnerable during the twenty four phases through which they shifted over the course of a [[month]], they were completely defenseless during one of them. Knowledge of a House icon's phase of vulnerability was thus a closely guarded secret, and one coveted by every other House in the inevitable Icon Wars which plagued the two and a half centuries of their existence.
+The few House icons which survived (or had been reraised) the years of Icon Wars eventually came under a different sort of attack in the mid-seventh century AF. [[Lorielan]]'s summoning of the [[Ventos Allegros]] with a shard of the [[Sceptre of Divinity]] on the plane of [[Nishnatoba]] shook the free-standing icons to their cores. The ritual violently disrupted them until each ultimately collapsed, ushering an end to the Age of Icons.
-The Icons themselves, being constructs of energy, degrade slowly due to the entropic resonance left behind by the war so long ago. The Icon's ability to channel power across the void between dimensions to its recipient House is tied to its strength. Benefits bestowed by the icon can become erratic as the icon's ability to reach the prime plane weakens, eventually coming to the point where the Icon can no longer reach past the veils between worlds. Once the Icon has fallen to half its max capacity it enters a point of stasis where the degradation stops and the power falls no further by normal means. To combat the entropy, [[Iconic Shards]] can be placed in contact with the Icon's true form and absorbed to empower it.
-Icons can also be brought down through the use of [[Icon Alchemists]]. Able to strike the icons on an unseen level, they draw out the power stored within the icon beyond the normal limits, and given enough time, collapse the metaphysical structure of the icon all together. Should the Icon be aligned with one of the 24 Icon Phases, however, then only during the aligned phase may the Icon be damaged at all.
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