Weave Lens

The Weave Lens is an apparently unique magical lens created by Morri Calloway 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 a telescope-like device being built to ascertain the true nature of Ruidus.

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 Weave Lens created by Morri Calloway is apparently a unique item. It was still in a rough but not necessarily unfinished state. As a result, the enchantment works only for a short time after it is activated.

History
As Ira Wendagoth, Birdie Calloway, and Oleander Calloway built a telescope-like device in Exandria to ascertain the nature of Ruidus, Ira contacted Morri Calloway to request a Weave Lens to complete the device. 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.

Birdie was not sure why the Weave Lens was needed in their device or what it might provide about Ruidus, but she believed that its successful delivery would complete the project sooner.

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.