God Tier Pocket Watch

God Tier Pocket Watch
Origin	Created by Skaian Chess Set
Type	Pocket watch
Effects	Allows for manipulation of a God Tier's life force
Downsides	See effects; stopping the mechanism will kill the God Tier.
Activation	N/A; Already activated
Collected by	N/A
Section	Numen Vault
Aisle	N/A
Shelf	N/A
Date of Collection	N/A
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Appearance

A series of ornate pocket watches with colors depending the Aspect and attributes they're bestowed. When the watch is held by it's owner, the face changes from an ordinary clock face into a depiction of the owner's God Tier symbol with a background that is split in half vertically, the left (when facing the clock) being purple and the right being orange.

Creation

After beating the Skaian Chess Set in a match, a hidden drawer in the board will slide open revealing the pocket watch. This attribute was not evident until after Aden, Juan, and Mary recovered their watches from the possession of Gloria von Dichi. How she obtained them is still unknown, but her ties to the creation of the artifacts is suspected.

Abilities

The watch has similar powers to that of Johann Maelzel's Metronome, in that it is synced with its associated God Tier’s life force, and damaging it will injure or kill the person. Simply squeezing it is enough to cause significant incapacitating pain, described as an intense pressure in the chest. God Tiers are unable to effectively use their abilities if another person possesses their watch.

Connection

In the webcomic Homestuck, The character Doc Scratch possessed a normal size grandfather clock that displayed the status of any God Tiered character. When the God Tiered character died, the clock shows if the death was Heroic (gold), or Just (purple). If the pendulum stopped on either half, the character would be permanently dead. If the pendulum stopped between the two halves, the God Tier would regenerate and return to life.

Trivia

• The watches were originally a grandfather clock, much like the original source, and were created to give Aden Taylor an Achilles' Heel.
• Juan's watch has a lapis blue casing with a crimson-on-sanguine scheme for the face. Aden's has a brass case with white-on-black. Mary has a comparitively mundane polished steel watch with a navy and sky-blue colored face.
• If the clock is destroyed, gripping the watch will keep the bonded person alive until the clock can be repaired.
  • If not repaired within 24 hours, the person will die regardless.
• Theoretically, a Risen One could gain unconditional Immortality (a literal and permanent form of immortality) by destroying their watch (not a match of someone who shares their Claspect, their own specifically). However, this is absolutely forbidden by the Ascendere (Caliborn, the in-canon example of a Lord of Time, gained this form of immortality and became Lord English by destroying his Clock).