DreamSmoke — Dark Artifact

The ash-field nomads called these DreamSmoke totems and still make them, the only order in the fields that did not end with the Long Rot. They trap the final visions of the dying. Place one near a sleeper and their dreams loop through the skull's open maw, filtered and returned altered. Whether the dreams came back better or worse depended on what the smoke had already swallowed. The nomads will not carry one within a day's walk of the Oracle's chamber. They say the two listen to each other.

Built in stacked bands, layered filament fused into a single sculptural surface where every ridge, every swirl, every tooth catches light differently. The machine, the material, and the intention.