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The Casteless are rarely established enough or connected enough to own works of artifice like their more connected kin do. They usually scavenge or make their own Artifacts, if they have any at all.
The Bonding Stone, Jade tool
Artifact 2
When Malik Fenn baited a Wyld Hunt into his enclave of Casteless, they tore through the outnumbered and ill-equipped Dragon-Blooded, losing none of their number in the ambush. Many among the Silver Pact had predicted they would fall to the first Wyld Hunt to notice them, so when they survived without casualties their status improved in the pragmatic eyes of Lunars where survival holds great weight. To his followers, Malik Fenn gave most of the spoils, for rewarding good followers renews their faith. He took for himself but one bauble, one that has helped him bind the Cult of Razik closer to one another.. and closer to him.
The Bonding Stone, when attuned by a sorcerer for 5 motes, grants the use of the Sworn Brothers’ Oath spell as an additional control spell.
See Manual of Exalted Power: The Dragon-Blooded pages 122 and 123 for the Sworn Brothers’ Oath spell, with the following 3e additions:
Disruption (Oathbond rating): When a rival sorcerer disrupts the Sworn Brother’s Oath, the test of loyalty to take harmful action against another member of the brotherhood is reduced by the rival’s sorcerer’s Essence, to a minimum of 1, until either the bond is broken or the disrupting sorcerer dies.
Control Spell: When you use a Willpower to aid a member of a mutual Sword Brotherhood, you may gain 1 Devotion die, up to that Sword Brotherhood’s Oathbond rating. You also gain 1 automatic success for Oathbond rolls. Outside of Sword Brotherhoods, people are supernaturally aware of your tendency towards loyalty to your chosen brotherhoods, effectively Reputation 3 (Loyal), though if that means they think you will keep your word in a shadow of that loyalty or that you will more likely betray outsiders in favor of your sworn brothers is in the eye of the beholder.