Weave Lens

The Weave Lens is a magical lens created by Morrigan at the request of Ira Wendagoth. It is a disc-shaped, green gemstone that allows someone to read magical scripts on enchanted objects by looking through it. The Weave Lens was requested to complete the Veilscatter Scope, a telescope built to ascertain the true nature of Ruidus, and it was successfully installed into the telescope.

Description
The Weave Lens, which is the "best sort of term" to name the item, is a disc-shaped, emerald-green gemstone about the size of a human palm. When the light hits it, it reflects off with a prismatic effect. The stone is cut with a smooth curvature and rough edges, and the edges of its facets have faint grooves created to hold an enchantment. While looking through it, shadows appear to flatten.

It allows one to identify enchantments, which give off a glow when viewed through the lens, and then to see patterns, symbols, runes, and magical scripts within these auras. It is suggested that each script is different between items.

A Weave Lens is not a standard magical item, and the one created by Morrigan is apparently a unique item. It was still in a rough but not necessarily unfinished state. As a result, the enchantment works only once per day for a short time after the lens is activated.

History
As Ira Wendagoth, Birdie Calloway, and Oleander Calloway built the Veilscatter Scope in Exandria to ascertain the nature of Ruidus, Ira contacted Morrigan to request a Weave Lens to complete the telescope. At some point before Exandria Unlimited, set in 842 PD, Fearne Calloway received the Weave Lens from Morri with instructions to give it to Birdie and Oleander, her parents, when she found them.

Fearne, who did not know any details about the lens, privately showed it to Chetney Pock O'Pea. Chetney determined that it was magical, but did not understand anything further about it, and advised her to protect it. During a confrontation between Bells Hells, Yu Suffiad, and Birdie, Fearne showed the gem to her mother. Fresh Cut Grass used an Identify spell to determine an approximate name and its ability to make enchantments visible. Laudna was also able to further use the lens to read the enchanted script on Yu's sword. The lens was then given to Birdie.

Birdie was not sure why the Weave Lens was needed or what it might provide about Ruidus, but she believed that its successful delivery would complete the project sooner. It was ultimately delivered to Ira, who installed it into the Veilscatter Scope, completing the device for its purpose of observing Ruidus.

After Ira stole the Moontide Crown from the Veilscatter Scope, Orym attempted to extract the Weave Lens from the device. However, Ashton Greymoore smashed it, expecting to be unable to because it was enchanted. Laudna physically repaired it using Mending, which did not restore the enchantment.

Behind the scenes
The Weave Lens was written by Ashley Johnson into Fearne's backstory for Exandria Unlimited.

Trivia

 * The Weave is a name used in the Forgotten Realms to describe the essence of raw magic and potential energy that spellcasters shape to create desired effects.