Wu-Xing War Compass

The Wu-Xing War Compass is a wondrous engine of the Celestial Empire, a great mystical compass borne upon a wheeled platform and tended by robed astromancers who read the flows of magic as a sailor reads the stars. Aligned to the ley-lines that thread the land, the Compass draws upon the harmony of the five elements to bolster the spells of Grand Cathay's mages and to steady the resolve of the soldiers who march beneath its shadow. Its slowly spinning needle points not to north but to fortune, guiding the army along paths of good omen and warding it against the ruinous magics of Chaos. In the hands of a skilled Shugengan, the War Compass becomes a nexus of celestial power, weaving the disparate energies of the battlefield into a single unyielding order. It does not kill, but it turns the very cosmos to Cathay's advantage, and against the anarchy of the north that is a weapon beyond price.