Blood of Gond

For every ancient civilisation, there are those who will seek to elevate their status through some claim to the 'the ancestry' of that civilisation, and Gond is no exception. The belief in this legacy is strengthened by the existence of the Blood of Gond, but this is the name given to the psychotropic elixir used by the Knights of Gond.
As the ruling lineages of Gond were Eladrin and Unvada, claims of 'royal' descent are most common among those with an elven heritage which claims a connection to the ancient eladrin. Bearing the blood curse of the Dance of Winds, few unvas put much stock in biological legacy, but Elves do. Elves are not common in Suto, however, so most of those who lay claim to Gond's inheritance are foreigners. Very few find much sympathy for their claims, although plenty are willing to guide a rich fool into the desert; some of them might even feel honour-bound to try to bring them out again.
Those who bring such claims to Suto usually hold to the belief that the ruins of God will in some way 'open up' to the true blood of Gond. It is a fact that certain arcarotech devices have been recorded as using 'blood locks' to identify a user, but in all known instances these are keyed to a single individual in the same way that a Magic items might be attuned to a user. No credible accounts of structures, secret treasure halls or proofs of authority blood-locked to a dynastic line have ever been recorded, but still a steady trickle of 'lost scions' arrive each year in the ports of the Tooth Coast, expecting to open the Apex and command the loyalty of the tribes, alongside a wealth of arcanotech devices and automata.
The other claim pursued by an extraordinary number of individuals where Gond is concerned is that of reincarnation. Most Aiaosion religions hold that a life lived in accordance to their precepts, and in pious submission to the will of one's god, will be rewar­ded with a place in The Firmament, while a life of iniquity dooms one to The Abyss. Very few suggest that a soul might return to another mortal life. In the case of Gond, however, perhaps due to a misapprehension of the cyclical Existence of the eladrin, stories of Gontish dignitaries reborn into other lineages and cultures abound.
Some have speculated that this is more than a shared delusion. There are fragmentary records of an arcanotech device, developed in the Apex, called the Pexarapex (the Crown of crowns) or the Gond Kystra (the Vault of Gond.) This device, believed to have been one of the last great projects of the Imperial technologists, is tentatively linked to the 'sykystral, or 'mind vaults', which housed the controlling rubricks of Gontish automata. Some speculate that it was a vast, calculating intelligence intended to guide the Empire, others that it was a repository for the souls - or at least the minds - of the dead, assuring the Gontish aristocracy their own immortality in the face of time.
Either way - the theories go - the catastrophic failure of the vault saw a vast store of knowledge regarding Gond disper­sed into the World, where it could remain as psychic im­pressions in the Aether, or even as discrete souls, cut loose from their true Fate. These souls, or impressions, could attach to the incipient souls of the unborn or very young, imprinting them with memories not their own, personalities waiting to be reinterpreted through new life experiences. While not true reincarnation, this offers an explanation for the snatches of unlearned historical knowledge that some of these so-called Reborn possess.