Baleful Beacon

The Baleful Beacon is an orange-red, square-cut gemstone approximately 0.75 meters long per edge with a self-illuminating, shimmering finish. Created sometime during the early First Era in Breaca, the Baleful Beacon sat atop an obsidian column and provided ample light for Demonic ships passing through while also suppressing the Baleful Bay's rainstorms.

One week after the Shadow lifted, the obsidian lighthouse collapsed, and the Beacon fell into the sea as it lost its self-illuminating glow, forever covered by the darkness of the oceans as deep currents carried it away.

Its whereabouts remain unknown.

Abilities
The Baleful Beacon had the ability to tame the Baleful Bay for which it was named. Drawing energy from a Demon mage or a sufficiently-skilled mage, the Beacon required uninterrupted concentration for up to an hour before its full effects began. When it was active, however, the Baleful Beacon cleared the Baleful Bay's skies by disrupting air and sea currents in North Breaca, diverting moisture elsewhere or otherwise dumping it into the seas near the buffer's periphery.

Due to its age, relative unfamiliarity, and possible wear, it is unknown whether the Beacon's full power can ever be realized in the post-Shadow world. Low-level mages might find it difficult to protect the waters surrounding a ship, while higher level mages may be able to protect an archipelago or peninsula by starting the Beacon. Regardless, if discovered, studying the Beacon itself might lend clues as to how the Demons subjugated Meridia's more hostile environments, opening further paths of magic previously thought intractable.

It is unknown whether the Beacon works only in the Baleful Bay, or if its properties can be exploited elsewhere.