Magi Staff customisation

Arin!

I'm thinking about how I want mine to look- can I see your fun customizations of your staffs?

Taryius

Sure! Mines a bit of a weird one, probably not anywhere near the flavour you're considering. It's made from the corrupted, blood-seeping tree at Mhaldor's Avenue of Trapped Souls.

APPEARANCE: a withered staff of skeletal wood.

DROPPED: Profaning its environs, a withered staff lies upon the ground.

EXAMINED: Hewn from the skeletal remains of a long-dead tree, this staff reaches nearly five feet in length

. A viscous, blood-red substance seeps from the porous surface of the wood, filling the air with 

a sharp, metallic scent. The withered staff ascends from a splintered base, contorting in 

surmised agony all along its length. The staff terminates with a mass of ashen tendrils that 

twist together into the likeness of a human skull, an ominous crimson glow pulsing from within 

the hollow sockets.

WIELD: You begin to wield a withered staff of skeletal wood in your right hand.

The eerie creak of tortured wood fills the air as the tendrils atop a withered staff of skeletal

wood momentarily writhe and churn.

UNWIELD: You cease wielding a withered staff of skeletal wood in your right hand.

Dead silence accompanies the ominous stillness of a withered staff of skeletal wood as it departs

from its master's grasp.

Shirszae

APPEARANCE: an ice-wrought staff of Sllshyan magery.

DROPPED:  Wintry whorls wreathe themselves about the crystalline staff of an ice mage

EXAMINED: Tethering the line between restrained elegance and overt display, this multifaceted crystalline instrument spans about five feet. Wrought entirely from elemental ice, the staff is nonetheless heavily ornamented with a scattering of piscine scales and wintry motifs cast in glimmering silver. Crowning the apex is an elaborate rendition of a rampaging, nine-headed hydra, the beast of Sllshya carved from the very ice of the staff and marked with the cold, wintry light of the glyph of Water. Dressed with ostentatious detail, five of the draconic heads surge every which way in a veritable maelstrom of rending fangs and frozen waves. Three coil and twist upon themselves, forming a frosty prison where jade, sapphire, and ruby abide, the muted stones engraved with the glyphs of Earth, Air, and Fire. A last one lunges upward in a solitary but triumphant scream. By contrast, near the bottom is a more innocuous and diminutive embellishment: An oblong heraldic seal, framed with flourishes of copper wire and silver highlights, bearing the countenance of the Cetan against a backdrop of the Alcazar. Beyond, the staff tapers into an elongated and rather blunted point not unlike a weathered stalactite.

Aegoth

 a disfigured staff of kindled birch

Smouldering on the ground, a scorched birch staff has been discarded here.

Hewn from a single branch of an exterminated birch, the acrid scent of smoke still clings to the

twisted form of this mage's staff. Jagged streaks of pitch mar the heat-warped surface of the 

charred timber, writhing along its contorted length. Turned on a lathe, the base has been shaped to 

feature graduated rings, creating a series of seven concentric steps. Flowing Mhaldorian script 

bites deeply into the pallid wood of each, the sweeping calligraphy emanating with a pulsing claret 

glow that stutters and shifts with seeming irregularity. Spiraling upwards from the rigidly ranked 

foundation, the withered limb tapers to terminate in an array of scorched vines. The tortured 

tendrils interweave, frayed into a forced curvature that crafts a spherical cradle. Trapped within 

the confines of the ovoid cage, a gout of elemental flame sparks and dances, the captured 

conflagration railing against the unyielding bars of its prison.

Arin!

Taryius said:

Sure! Mines a bit of a weird one, probably not anywhere near the flavour you're considering. It's made from the corrupted, blood-seeping tree at Mhaldor's Avenue of Trapped Souls.

APPEARANCE: a withered staff of skeletal wood.

DROPPED: Profaning its environs, a withered staff lies upon the ground.

EXAMINED: Hewn from the skeletal remains of a long-dead tree, this staff reaches nearly five feet in length

. A viscous, blood-red substance seeps from the porous surface of the wood, filling the air with 

a sharp, metallic scent. The withered staff ascends from a splintered base, contorting in 

surmised agony all along its length. The staff terminates with a mass of ashen tendrils that 

twist together into the likeness of a human skull, an ominous crimson glow pulsing from within 

the hollow sockets.

WIELD: You begin to wield a withered staff of skeletal wood in your right hand.

The eerie creak of tortured wood fills the air as the tendrils atop a withered staff of skeletal

wood momentarily writhe and churn.

UNWIELD: You cease wielding a withered staff of skeletal wood in your right hand.

Dead silence accompanies the ominous stillness of a withered staff of skeletal wood as it departs

from its master's grasp.

This is so cool! (I'm more looking for the scope of what is possible and to admire others customisations than for specific inspiration )

Torrent

Usually anything is possible if you can pay for it. The more complex you want your staff the higher the price goes. You just cant have anything Divine related or comes from the aspect of Divines(without the Divines permission, bloodsteel, moonsilver), it has be be made of something that allows a staff to corporeal (no shifting staff of mist or something). Normally if you have a question about customizations you can always email customisations@achaea.com and they are very helpful in answering. Good luck on your design!

[Deleted User]

I mean they allowed someone to make a shield/sword out of water ... Not ice. Liquid water...

Arin!

I have a few questions- does a customised staff follow the same rules as an uncustomised one re: you cast a new one every 15 days, or do you need to add nondecay and resetting to the staff?

Shirszae

You need to add at least nondecay since every cast staff will be a new one with default desc. 

[Deleted User]

Ideally you want resetting, as well, because if you don't you're fucked if you lose it.