◈ ENTITYThe Mimic Tear
The Eternal City's failed lord, every Tarnished's silvered shadow
The Mimic Tear
The Mimic Tear is the strangest of the Spirit Ashes a Tarnished can carry. Where every other ash summons a fixed creature, a soldier, a dog, a wolf, the Mimic Tear summons a perfect copy of the summoner, identical in armour, weapons, and skills. The Mimic Tear Ashes description names what they are and where they come from : 'This spirit takes the form of the summoner to fight alongside them, but its mimicry does not extend to imitating the summoner's will. Mimic tears are the result of an attempt by the Eternal City to forge a lord.'
The Eternal City, Nokron and Nokstella, fallen into the Lands Between when Astel was called down, was once a civilisation whose ambitions outran its god. Failing to find an Empyrean of its own, it tried to forge one. Silver Tears, formless intelligent sludge, were the medium ; the experiment was to feed a Silver Tear enough imitations of life that it would one day, of its own, choose to be born a lord. The husks scattered across Nokstella's basin attest the failure. The Mimic Tear in the Eternal City lake-bed and the Larval Tears that Rennala uses for rebirths are what remain of that ambition : the Eternal City still refining itself, in case one day the imitation is good enough.
Use to summon the spirit of a mimic tear. This spirit takes the form of the summoner to fight alongside them, but its mimicry does not extend to imitating the summoner's will. Mimic tears are the result of an attempt by the Eternal City to forge a lord.
Larval TearCore of a creature of mimicry known as a silver tear. Material required by the amber egg cradled by Rennala to birth people anew.
A hardened husk shed by a formless life form known as the Silver Tear. The Silver Tear makes mockery of life, reborn again and again into imitation. Perhaps, one day, it will be reborn a lord...
