I was unsatisfied with the motives of the attacking forces in the Leilon Besieged phase of the Storm Lord's Wrath/Divine Contention story (which is essentially the crux of the whole thing, too) - and the Ruinstone McGuffin is kind of weird-and-lame and otherwise pretty vague on why all the fuss.
Results of using Ujio's Seeing Sword to perform a Legend Lore on the "Ruinstone"
- In times untold, two stones turned in balance - nothing empowered and nothing suffering of their making.
- During a battle that began an eon past in the Astral Plane and cut across world-barriers to other existences,
- a wizard-warrior used his final act of defiance to reach across worlds and sever the binding of the two stones
- to deliver vast destruction on his enemies,
- but isolating allies in worlds no longer linked by the armada’s war-weapons.
- One of the stones tumbled through the infinite seas of the Astral and Ethereal,
- a fiery red crystal that one day found its way into the palms of those
- who would use its power to bind and unbind to further their own power.
- Yet use of this accursed stone would unleash calamities so ruinous,
- often nothing is remembered of their legacies
- other than the naming of the Ruinstone.
- Even less is known of what befell the other stone or its nature.
- The Ruinstone has been pursued far more than it has been found,
- It imposes some power over time itself, thereby obscuring the history of its use.
- How many legends, how many peculiarities of history are tied to this pulsing, heart-like artifact
- from unfathomably ancient time and distant space?