The seat of extraordinary and unbelievable power (Chair)

The culprit in question

by TheDumbOwl (Me)

Items of unfathomable power are commonplace in most worlds of magic and wonder, but none can compare to the might of The Chair.

"You don't sit down in THE chair, you just get on."

— Potential Lunatic

Come on, really?

Yes. Really.

... But it's just a chair

Whew, you're lucky you aren't near it, with talk like that. This isn't just Any old chair, big underlined text person. This is THE chair. Like, you don't understand. Wars have been fought over lesser things, and I'm definitely not just saying that because I can assign the level of significance to everything that exists in this place. Of all chairs to exist across the expanse of Vertinall, this is the most chair of them.

I'm leaving

WAIT WAIT Okay fine-- I'm gonna sell you on this chair right now. If by the end of this you aren't touting the praises of the actual greatest chair to have ever existed in every concievable universe, then I'll eat my hat. Which is crazy, because I'm incorporeal.
You've all sat in chairs before, you know the deal. Not all are made equally, and this one is without question a leading example of this. Forged in the depths of boredom from some old god, it's amongst one of the oldest things in all of Vertinall, including the Big snake and Old Granny Doris.

"I'm not that old, you know! Just old enough to have seen the creation of most of the world. Now hand over the coin pouch, punk!"

— Doris

So the story goes, when Vertinall was a part of one whole planet, the Gods often visited and walked amongst people, as casually as anyone else. During their visits they'd get up to all kinds of terribly mundane things, like shopping, and bending the weave of reality. One such god was known as Idano, the God of Chaos and general tomfoolery.

Okay so maybe it was actually just any old chair

Idano, being magnificent as he was, decided one day that he needed.. A chair. As a god, it would be hard to find someone not willing to give up their chair, unless perhaps they were incredibly evil, and lived in an awfully decorated castle at the bottom of the world. On this particular occasion, he decided that simply 'having a chair' was not enough.
He was passing through Frekdal, when he came upon a chair-- Old, a little worn around the edges. Completely unassuming to the regular eye.
It was perfect.

A completely unbiased and accurate picture of Idano

by TheDumbOwl (Me)

With his incredible power, he imbued this chair with pure, untempered magic.
On a surface level, everything remained unchanged; It looked the same, felt the same, heck it even smelt the same, despite any best efforts to undo that. But this chair now carried the weight of a god behind it, and by the gods, did that make it comfortable. It was like sitting on a cloud, if that cloud was dry, not really high up in the air, and was a chair.
Oh and whoever is sitting in it gets access to an endless stream of magical power, or whatever.

Isn't this supposed to be about a settlement?

Funny thing, that! Because of how powerful the chair is, it's significant enough to be legally recognised as it's own land, so as to prevent any one nation claiming the chair for themselves.
That'd be really helpful if someone actually remembered where they put it.

"That damned chair.. It just looks so ordinary! We must gather an expeditionary group of experienced chairgoers to measure the comfort of every chair in the land to ascertain it's location!"

— High Priest Arder, Chair novice

Founding Date

An extremely vastly big long time ago

Alternative Name(s)

The Chair, Chair, That one over there

Population

1, maybe 2 if you're reckless

Inhabitant Demonym

Chair.. Goers? Sitters? One of those

Location under

Frekdal, the trading place

Related Professions

• The Convocation of Folks who Sit in Comfortable Places

"I heard that if you sit in The Chair, you become the Lord of The Beast and can give it whatever commands you want! If only it wasn't hundreds of miles up in the air to be able to hear any of them.."

— Local, about 8 pints in