Magic Tools

Magic Tools were artificially made devices imbued with magical power. Originally used by gods, humans later created a large variety of magic tools for their personal purposes, each with their own unique abilities. While quite common in earlier eras, magic tools waned in use during the Third Period in the wake of the Levianta Catastrophe.

History
Since time immemorial, gods created numerous magic tools for their personal use. When the First Period collapsed, the gods fled their destroyed paradise on the ark Sin. When the Second Period faced similar destruction, the surviving 72 gods fled once again and worked to create a third world. After the completion of the Third Period sometime around BT 528, the sun god dropped the ark in Evillious' northern region to seal the rampaging Levia-Behemo and their fellow six kin.

Humans soon congregated around the white ark, establishing Magic Kingdom Levianta, and began creating a variety of advanced magic tools and technologies. In EC 013, Sin was activated by Kiril Clockworker, resulting in the magic kingdom's destruction. Following the Levianta Catastrophe, a vast majority of mage families went extinct and nearly all of kingdom's magical technology to be destroyed or buried, leaving only the few survivors with the knowledge of creating and using magic tools.

In EC 014, Hänsel and Gretel created the vessels of sin from the remains of their adoptive mother, Eve Moonlit and her Original Sin. As the centuries progressed, the use of magic tools declined with the lessening of magic users. While the vessels of sin continued to cause calamity and misfortune, their connection to historical events remained largely ignored. By the 7th century EC, magic was regarded as little more than myth.

During the early EC 980s, Gallerian Marlon began collecting vessels of sin. The vessels were later stored in Evil's Theater after Gallerian's death in August, EC 983. There, several of them awakened, taking on human forms. After the destruction of the Third Period around EC 998, the vessels of sin were collected by the god Michaela and their demons were summoned to assist Allen Avadonia.

Mechanics
All magic tools contained magical energy in some way, allowing a user to tap into its latent magical abilities. Some tools, such as the Very Amazing Green Onion, retained the specific magical energy of its owner, allowing the user to communicate with said owner. In general, a user needed to be in physical contact with a magic tool in order to utilize it.

Due to their nature, magic tools were mainly utilized by mages, with skilled magic users using them to great effect. However, with magic training, individuals with magical potentials could learn how to use magic tools. Non-mages were also capable of accessing a magic tool's powers and abilities, especially when interacting with the vessels of sin. As a result, using vessels of sin would sometimes result in the vessel's demon possessing the user, with the user being especially vulnerable if they had severe insecurities.

Although some tools such as the vessels of sin were seemingly indestructible, some tools would gradually deteriorate over time and had limitations to their usage. However, casting Clockwork Secret Art made it possible for the tool to be rejuvenated and thus usable once again.