Scales of Dimira
This immaculate set of scales is nearly the height of an average man and the crossbeam reaches nearly as wide. The center mast and the horizontal balance-bar are made of an unidentifiable dark wood smooth and hard as marble. The entire thing is spider-webbed with delicate filigree and elaborate designs in a mirror-like metal that is also quite mysterious. The motifs of crumbling mountains and devastating avalanches dominate the top half of the center shaft, below which the images switch to twisted roots clawing downward into underground forests of mushrooms, moss, and mold that are depicted on the large round base.
The josille people of Stretto are stalwart and stoic through and through. This is no more obvious than through their ubiquitous worship of the most morose and nihilistic deity, Dimira, goddess of decay and entropy. Basing much of their culture around the writing and thoughts of their patron, they chose symbols from the iconography found in their holy texts that mirror their own general views. With that in mind the Dimiran Scales chose their icon to be the same as their namesake - a set of balanced scales split down the middle, one side blackened and crumbling, the othe side pristine with silver or gold bars on the dish.
During the days after their freedom from slavery was still being celebrated a mysterious metal set of scales was delivered to a respected member of the budding Dimiran faith.
Behind the Scenes
To anybody who knew what to look for it would be fairly clear that this massive set of scales was made in the same manner as many other Allegran artefacts, like the Mansa's royal staff, the Legacy of Visions and the tools commonly used by heblin, the Whorled Beamknit.
Significance
This large and fully functional 'set of scales' has a strange local significance to these people since the scales arrived days after the entire josille population was declared free and given full Allegran citizenship. The timing was pivotal as the community as a whole was riding a high and the arrival of the scales was too perfect to ignore. Everyone was so enthusiastic that they took no time to consider the wider implications. An extravagent set of scales weighing as much as large man mysteriously appears on the future sight of the first josille church of Dimira and they simply didn't question it.
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