A Perfect Black Sphere Surrounded by Wings
The object has a precise spherical form and wing-like structures, but no name or function is supplied.
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What Is the Winged Black Stone?
What is the winged black stone, and what would placing it inside Occtis do?
Ethrand carries a perfectly spherical black stone surrounded by wings during the Tachonis assault. He orders six ghouls to open Occtis and put the stone “where it belongs.” The object’s identity, origin, effect and relationship to Occtis remain unknown. Nothing in Episode 3 connects it to the Stone of Nightsong.
First raised at 04:59:13 — What Does House Tachonis Want with Occtis? — The Winged Black Stone in The Winged Black Stone (The Snipping of Shears)Open Questions
- What is the stone made from or meant to contain?
- Why does Ethrand say it belongs inside Occtis?
- Would the procedure transform, control, empower or kill Occtis?
- Is the stone connected to the Tachonis castle in Death?
- Who created or supplied it?
Clues
Ethrand Says the Stone Belongs Inside Occtis
The instruction establishes intended placement, not the procedure’s purpose or outcome.
What We Learned from Critical Role Campaign 4, Episode 3
Cut threads, quiet threats and the shadow behind the shears
Episode 3 exposes the manufactured Candescent Creed, sends a new party towards Gormalay and ends with House Tachonis tearing its way into Palazzo Davinos.
What Would Resolve It?
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Identify the winged black stone.
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Determine what placing the stone inside Occtis would do.
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Identify who created or supplied the stone.
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Explain why Ethrand says the stone belongs inside Occtis.
Developments
Ethrand Reveals the Winged Black Stone
The object appears in Ethrand’s hand during the assault on Occtis’s chamber.
The Winged Black StoneThe Stone Is Intended for Occtis’s Body
Ethrand orders the ghouls to open Occtis and place the stone where it belongs.
The Winged Black StoneTranscript-backed claims
2Mystery Evidence
Claims are labelled by how the transcript establishes them. Evidence can support a clue without proving a theory.
2 Confirmed
Ethrand enters Occtis’s silenced chamber holding a perfectly spherical black stone surrounded by wings.
Source
Ethrand enters Occtis’s silenced chamber holding a perfectly spherical black stone surrounded by wings. · The Winged Black Stone · What Does House Tachonis Want with Occtis? — The Winged Black Stone
Ethrand silently orders the ghouls to put Occtis on the table, open him and place the stone where it belongs.
Source
Ethrand Tachonis — Ethrand silently orders the ghouls to put Occtis on the table, open him and place the stone where it belongs. · The Winged Black Stone · What Does House Tachonis Want with Occtis? — The Winged Black Stone