Talk:Friendship Bond Rings/@comment-5782071-20170128032642/@comment-24588058-20170128052657

The inspiration for this artifact is a bit twisted. So, the very base of my idea is inspired by Ash-Greninja and the bond he shares with Ash. Then, while I was thinking about my story I'm writing, I thought about how cool it would be if two friends had rings that let them draw on each other's strength to help them. And this idea basically formed out of that, about eight hours ago while I was waiting to get my haircut. Strange how ideas can form.

I decided to make the downsides similar to Stevenson's Bookends, in all honesty, partially because I had completely forgotten about that artifact. But at the same time, I thought that such a bonding type of experience might cause the merging of people. I had tossed around the idea of making the downside the merging of both people into one being, but it just didn't seem to sit well with me.

Now, the Statues are not the only artifact with similar effects, but of course they have the closest match to these in terms of matching effects. Now, the Statues were collected during the first year of Warehouse 8 (by the same Regent who discovered this one, no less! I'm writing up her history now, I'm hoping it'll be ready within a few days) from Germany. The Statues themselves appear to date back to an older civilization (I haven't decided which one yet, but I'm leaning towards Celtic). Now, I didn't mention it above, but when the Marines were interviewed by the Warehouse agents, they actually drew pictures of the rings for the agents. Now, if you compare the rings and statues, they appear to be from the same civilization. I haven't yet decided how deep I want the connection between the Statues and the Rings to go, whether they'll have the same origin/provenance or perhaps even the same owners. I can tell you that the downside of the Statues will be the death of the friends if they travel further than fifty miles from each other's location (The owner of the one statue died fifty miles from his friend, who died at the same time.)

And the rings are unique. And they don't look like an infinity.