"By the Bonds of the Earth"
| Type | Staff |
|---|---|
| Effects | Unimaginable control over all earth and land, massive earth titan armor. |
| Source | Grumbar elemental ancient of Earth |
The Staff of the Osugborn Marsh (or just Staff of the Marsh) is one of the Tools of the Primordial Ancients,
History
The staff was said to have been forged by Grumbar during a prehistoric battle between the gods and the Elemental Demi-Gods. Creation stories detail the battles fought and how it seemingly gave birth to the land masses of Quelmar, but after time, the myths and stories all become unreliable, and the only well known fact is that the staff eventually was recovered by a group of heroes known as Animal Storm at The Howling Crag.
The Curse
Eventually when the druid who recovered the staff was close to dying, she encased the staff in a nearly impenetrable barrier, which only fiends could enter. The secret reason was that the hero long ago was in fact a Rakshasa, a type of demon herself. The clergy that would later hold up in the Crag considered themselves the last defense against a possible Demonic Infiltration, an event where a demon or devil stole the staff and used it to destroy the world.
Recovery
In the mid 400s PR, shortly before the Arctic Autumn, a group known as AFEW, having already recovered one elemental tool (The Crown of Empyrosis), broke into the Howling Crag on a mission of taking the staff. While this seems malicious, they were in fact trying to protect the staff from Bane and his Banites. Unfortunately for AFEW, the Banites had already arrived, having made short work of most of the church's clergy. The remaining Grumbarans who hadn't taken shelter watched as one of the intruders, a Rakshasa by the name of Tigger, passed through the protective barrier, taking the Staff for himself.
