Staff of Tier

The Staff of Tier was an ancient magical weapon and artifact which was created by Tier out of bitter vengeance for his people's rejection of him. It was very powerful in the hands of the wielder, but carries a heavy burden. The Staff is said to have been able to cure all ills. The wielder of the ancient relic was known as "the Master of the Staff". The Staff grants the wielder eternal life granted they, but they still need to eat in order to not waste away, however it also makes them able to conjure up any food and drink. The wielder of the Staff would be nearly all-powerful, but only as long as they were holding the Staff in their hand.

The Staff was long and made of black diamond formed out of the black sand from the shore of the Isle of Tier which had been compressed. It contained all of Tier's magic and negative emotions. When Tier had created the Staff, he brought it to a cavern at heart of the isle and stuck it in the ground, thus causing the island to become alive, able to move where it willed and consume everything in its path. When Tier at last decided to die, the Illican pirate Bar-Enoch sought and found the Staff, and through trickery defied the curse Tier had put on it and took it for himself, thus making the Isle of Tier stagnant. When Bar-Enoch at last decided to die, he did so still clutching the Staff of Tier. The Deltoran trader, Dare Larsett, found the Staff in Bar-Enoch's tomb in the turtle cave in Illica and, using a goozli bought from Thurl in Two Moons he took it in order to bring it back to King Lief of Deltora. However, he was betrayed by his ship's captain, Mikah, who murdered him and took the Staff for himself, bringing it back to the Isle of Tier and causing it to become alive once more.

The Staff was destroyed by Britta's goozli, who dragged it through the mud of the Isle of Tier and dropped it into the water at the shore, after which it dissolved into tiny bits of glittering sands.

Crafting
After Tier were betrayed by the people of Two Moons and exiled by them to a small, remote island, he created the Staff of Tier out of vengeance for their actions by taking handfuls of the black sand from the island's shore and pressing it between his hands until it became diamond. He poured all his magic, grief, passion and rage into the Staff. He then went to the heart of the island, and plunged the Staff into the earth, causing the island to come alive and granting it the ability to move where it willed and devour other life where it found it. Ships, monsters of the deep and even smaller islands were consumed by the Isle.

Theft
Tier lived for centuries, but he eventually grew bored with life and welcomed death. While he died the island lived on. One day a pirate named Bar-Enoch came to the Isle of Tier, and by trickery defied Tier's spell and took the Staff, wresting it from the island's heart and bringing it with him to use for his evil deeds. Thus the Isle of Tier were no longer able to move or consume anything.

Appearance
The Staff of Tier was a long, sleek, black diamond staff, made from the compressed black, glittering sand of the shore of the Isle of Tier.

Abilities
The Staff of Tier had the ability to make the Isle of Tier come alive and kept it alive as long as its tip was buried in the earth of the island within the cave at the centre of the isle. It also allowed the wielder to conjure up non-living thing such as jewels and riches, as well as food and drink of any kind. It allowed the wielder to breathe fire, command the wraiths of the isle, levitate anything, and sense events happening at a distance. It could all ills,, and heal any injury. The Staff granted eternal life to the wielder as long as they held it in their hand, but they still needed to eat in order to not waste away. In the hands of the wielder, the Staff makes its Master practically all-powerful.