Hidden Cache Of Artifacts
A few months after The Dark Council dissolved, I came across a massive trove of artifacts that were kept on the Astral level. I spent some time sifting through the artifacts and sending them back to their rightful Owners or putting them into a safe place.
While I didn’t look too deeply, I did sense there were a lot of artifacts of power. I could only assume the artifacts had been taken as payment for some of the deals made with the Dark Council or stolen.
It seemed that The Dark Council had been collecting these artifacts. Things that could be used as weapons, provide information, act as gateways, or control others.
I generally have no interest in seeking powerful artifacts. I certainly don’t need them, and I’ve already got more than my fair share.
However, there are two (at least at this point of writing this) that I have a vested interest in. But they are not objects, they are living beings.
I truly abhor slavery and will do all I can to end it. Both these beings happened to be slaves.
Master Key
Omen and his binds were one of them.
Those binds caused enormous trouble for Omen. They forced him to behave in any way The Triquerta desired.
When Jack managed to put a second set of binds on him, I was able to negotiate a deal to obtain them. However, I was fully aware that this didn’t include the original binds.
I always think in the long term. So, even though I didn’t have the Master Key to the binds, I had already gone to a lot of planning and trouble to ensure they would legally come to me.
The Binds and the Master Key were Soul bound. I’m not about to get into how I managed this, save that when I did finally take possession of the Master Key, The Council of 12 (especially the psychotic goddess, Sekhmet) went ballistic on me and asked for it back. They even had Omen and his new handler ask me for it.
I wasn’t too keen to do that, considering I knew that two of their numbers had already ordered Omen to kill me.
Souls
My only interest in the binds was to return to Omen his Free Will. I could not remove them, as it would kill him. More importantly, I didn’t want Omen to go on a rampage where he would end up eating the Souls of everyone he could get his hands on.
But was Omen considered something so important that he could end this world or reality? As mentioned, he was a Soul Eater. This meant that he would literally eat Souls. He did that to feed another Being that had been connected to him.
Omen claimed that he would eventually consume every Soul there was. It was not a matter of if, but rather when. It was a claim Omen repeated several times. He spoke of it matter of factly, as though it was an immutable Universal law.
This claim never felt right to me. My feelings on the matter is that he was going to be used as a reset button. It was a way to rid the Universe of all that was deemed undesirable.
This is just an educated guess. There will always be more information uncovered, but for now, that’s where I’ll leave this subject.