| Major_Blackhart |
Ok, I gotta ask about him, reading the Numeria book that just came out. First of all, LOVE IT!!! Absolutely love it. It's got so much awesomeness in it that I can't quite describe it.
But now, about Alling Third. What were his influences? That seven pieces of skymetal just absolutely rings of Xin and Thassilon, though it seems done in a different way than the Sihedron was, as a puzzle phylactery, not necessarily as a source of power the way Xin's artifact was.
Plus, there bears a certain resemblance between the two on a similar level in terms of concept and even design. Not saying at all that they went about it in similar ways. Xin was benevolent. Alling Third is not. But I gotta ask, when coming up with that art work, did the artist take a look at the clockwork reliquary and say that looks actually pretty damn good.