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 excessively common in earlier eras, magic tools waned in use during the Third Period in the wake of the Levianta Catastrophe.

History
Long before the creation of the Third Period, the Sin ark was used by the gods to escape their destroyed paradise and travel the black sea beyond it. Arriving at a new location, the gods' second paradise in the Second Period lasted for a thousand years before being destroyed. The surviving 72 gods then fled once again, traveling to a new location, where they worked together to create the Third Period. At some point, the gods also developed the Very Amazing Green Onion. In around BT 528, the sun god dropped the ark in Evillious' northern region to seal the rampaging Levia-Behemo and their six kin. Eventually, humans congregated around Sin, establishing Magic Kingdom Levianta.

Eventually, a temple was built around Sin, forbidding anyone to take advantage of its power to resurrect the dead. At some point, the mages of the Magic Kingdom were able to successfully recreate the Very Amazing Green Onion. Modelling off of the divine creation produced by the gods, they used it as a communication device. In EC 013, Kiril Clockworker used Sin to resurrect Elluka Clockworker. Casting Clockwork Secret Art on the machine, Kiril successfully rejuvenated the defunct device before the spell's magic faltered and the ark went out of control. Resulting in a massive explosion that caused the Magic Kingdom's collapse, Elluka was successfully resurrected, with Levia-Behemo existing within her soul.

After the Catastrophe, the Green Onion also became a rarity, with only a handful of mages knowing the processes behind its creation, preservation and usage. The explosion also extended to Levianta's neighboring countries, causing a famine that eventually forced Adam and Eve Moonlit to abandon their adopted children in the Forest of Bewilderment. However, the two eventually found their way home and murdered the couple.

With the composite magic in Eve's body manifesting itself as the Original Sin, Hänsel and Gretel then split it into seven fragments and scattered them around the world, resulting in the creation of the Demons of Sin. Each of the demons eventually inhabited their own vessels, which were subsequently passed on from one individual to another over the course of the centuries, influencing numerous events in Evillious history. Sometime during the EC 980s, six of the seven vessels were collected by Gallerian Marlon and stored in his theater. There, several of them awakened, taking on human forms.

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.