Siege Malicious

The Siege Malicious was a magical throne that determined the Oinoloth.

Description
As mentioned above, the Siege Malicious was a throne. It was made from the same material Khin-Oin was made from&mdash; the backbone of a deity. It was a big and immovable throne intended for superhumanly big people. It was so big that people who were smaller than intended for the throne looked especially ridiculous on it.

It was decorated with inlaids of tarnished silver, base copper, and brass as well as a crown of rubies at the top.

Powers
The Siege Malicious was to determine the Oinoloth and give the prospective ruler of Khin-Oin full control over diseases on Oinos.

This was done by the prospective Oinoloth sitting on the throne. If the sitting one killed the predecessor, the throne accepted him or her as the new Oinoloth and made the skin of him or her slough off. With the loss of skin came power over diseases on Oinos, namely the power to create, modify, or nullify any disease.

When a person who did not qualify as the Oinoloth, for example a person who merely drove away but not killed the current Oinoloth, sat on the throne, the throne struck the person with a particularly strong version of a disease called gray wasting that eroded the person's force of personality.

History
Around 1357 DR, an arcanaloth called Yrkhetep tried to usurp Phraxas' position and the Siege Malicious in a ploy that involved gaining control over the Vilhon Reach.