Ashin Cardé Varanin
Are you on the square?
SPECIAL FEATURES
- After a basic ritual of attunement, the owner can transpose their entire consciousness, temporarily or permanently, into the immediate vicinity of any non-trivial statue or shrine of themselves.
- Supremely durable, comparable to a high-end Sith sword; indestructible short of Force Light, a black hole, or the heart of a star.
- Can operate regardless of whether the ring falls under the influence of ysalamiri, void stone, etc. It is beyond them.
- Can operate regardless of how far away the statue is.
- Can be used to ensure continued existence in the material universe after death (though moving from statue to ring to statue is not an ideal eternity).
- Cannot reach statues that are under the influence of ysalamiri, void stone, etc.
- Can be disabled, damaged, or destroyed by Force Light.
- Crucially, when the owner is casting their presence into a statue, their body is unconscious, vulnerable, and retains only the most basic sensory awareness (e.g. the pain of injury).
- The owner's consciousness is wholly around or within the targeted statue or shrine and cannot move far from it, except to jump to another statue or shrine or back to the ring.
- If the owner is alive, they must be wearing the ring (e.g. on a finger or on a chain around the neck) to use it.
- If the ring is separated from the owner while unconscious, the body may sicken and die, leaving the ring rather than the body as the primary anchor of the consciousness.
- Quite bulky for a ring; cannot be worn under a gauntlet.
- Destroy all non-trivial statues or shrines of an owner and they will have no options, potentially leaving them to dissipate into the Force or be trapped in some corner of the Netherworld.
At various points in the 800s, Ashin Varanin became aware that other Sith had built statues or temples dedicated to her. As a matter of basic dignity, she neither acknowledged nor visited them.
In the 860s, Ashin left her eternity to lead an extensive multipartisan campaign to rescue her wife from the Netherworld. The body that she took thereafter was her final use of Transfer Essence: from then on, that form of immortality was conclusively barred to her. As a matter of basic prudence, she began exploring options. The library of classic techniques was unsatisfying to her.
Leading up to her retirement as captain of the Pomojema in 902, she gave the Aksifas and the master alchemist Azel Moran a mandate to iterate as many new potential approaches to immortality as possible, without regard for their functionality and without serious consequence for failure. One of this exercise's more interesting results was a set of rings with the Sith sorcery necessary to transpose consciousness between grounded, permanent likenesses of the owner - statues and shrines, primarily.
Ashin tested these rings to her satisfaction in connection with a few locations she'd known about and a few more she hadn't. She cast her mind into the statue drifting in the ruins of Exegol, for example, and even the academy named for her on Dromund Kaas. She judged the rings an undignified and failed experiment but situationally pragmatic, gave one to her wife as an insurance policy and one to her daughter
Quinn Varanin
as motivation to get famous, and set out to find better options for eternity.Out Of Character Info
Intent:
A ring enabling the wearer to cast their presence into and between statues of themselves
Image Source(s):
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JGE2R
Canon Link:
N/A
Primary Source(s):
N/A
Technical Information
Affiliation:
Ashin Varanin and select recipients
Model:
Transpositive Ring
Modular:
No
Material:
Alchemically strengthened gold and a piece of the heart of Exegol
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