Obelisk

An Obelisk is a tower built to temporarily store and refine magical energy in Aycilon. Magic users can draw upon energy stored in an Obelisk with relative ease, and a single Obelisk can provide magical energy for users up to 1000 miles away, with the exception of the Great Obelisk on Mt. Radas.

History
During the Subjugation, the Obelisks were constructed to focus Aycilon's free magical energy to turn it against the ground below (in an event which would become referred to as the Deconstruction), effectively ending life on Earth by breaking it apart from within. The Great Obelisk on Mt. Radas was intended to be the site at which each Obelisk could be activated simultaneously to achieve Deconstruction.

In the final hours of the Subjugation, Aycielas Verderen escaped imprisonment and freed a dozen fellow slaves. Together, they ambushed a Vanguard of Revash caravan carrying the Great Obelisk's Keystone, which was en route to the Obelisk itself for activation. With the Keystone, the entirety of the slave camp was freed from the mind-control of the overseers and an uprising began which would later become the Dawn of Aycilon.

Despite the danger of the Obelisks, which was not fully realised by the Ayciels after the Dawn of Aycilon, the freely accessible magical energy that they provided was welcomed and became an integral part of Ayciel society. Previously-esoteric practices became the norm and enabled the Ayciels to delay their own deaths by thousands of years.