Dimal's Horn

Dimal's Horn is a huge magical horn made from a Woolly Mammoth's tusk, it is 13 feet long and is banded with bronze. It was created by the ancient Dwarven sorcerer Dimal Drefuk.

Magical Properties
Dimal's Horn was imbued with limited anti-nature magicks, giving it the power to weaken all peculiar beasts and peculiar plantlife. After the creatures were weakened, they could be hunted and destroyed by their lesser counterparts as well as ancient Dwarves and Humans. This anti-magic spell was set to last forever, but only proved to last up to around halfway through the Darkness Era.

The side effect of the horn is a grisly one, as, it turns the insides of the one who blew it to soup, killing them after days of horrifying pain. This is the sacrifice.

The Loss of the Horn
Dimal apparently decided he wouldn't pay this debt himself, and must've traveled somewhere with it. He subsequently lost the horn within a crumbling cavern, and - judging from the bones found in the collapsed cavern where Bakul of Ackenurn stumbled across it - he tried to go in after it.

Its Use
Bakul of Ackenurn, a peasant, carried the horn to the king of the Ackenurn Fortress, allowing him the right to blow it. Utuhth Ackenurn's insides were churned up after he had, and Bakul of Ackenurn was flayed alive for treason.

Thinking it just some sorcerous poison, the ancient Dwarves stayed where they were, not knowing that all peculiar beasts had collectively heard the horn, and were beginning to be drained of their power.

Effects
Fire Dragons turned to Wyverns, non-sentient creatures that are much smaller; all other types of Dragon lost their breath and flying abilities, climbing into holes like they had forced Humankind and ancient Dwarves into.

How is the Age of the Horn known?
Dimal's Horn is rimmed with bronze and has no inscriptions whatsoever. It has no maker's mark, no king's mark, or anything else. It is presumed that the horn was built before language existed, therefore, historians put its creation during the bronze age.

This is abridged from Patrick Herrack's Darkness Era work: The Death of Dragons

OOC Notes
-This page was created by Timothy Silvers on August 22nd, 2018.