Tear of Boccob

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The Tear of Boccob was a tear-shaped crystal given to the archpriests of the Temple of the Mind's Eye in Estorium by Boccob. After the Illithid War, a group of priests took the Tear out of Estorium, and built a tower north of Wellspring to house it. Contact with the tower gradually declined, and eventually its location was lost.

In the year 2959, Tephra hired a mercenary band called the Stormcrows to reclaim the Tear. When they arrived in the tower, however, they discovered that it had been corrupted by the energies of the Far Realm. The Tear's energies warped them into hideous aberrations. They began worshiping it, until it was stolen by an illithid named Shathrax living in the sewers beneath Wellspring. Using his own mercenaries - a band of dark ones from the Shadowfell - Shathrax kidnapped townsfolk and exposed them to the corrupted Tear, transforming them into monsters.

It was around this time that the Challengers of the Unspeakable became aware of the Tear, and its interest to Tephra. Confiding in Dierdre, a priestess of Ioun in Wellspring, that they had learned of its possession by Shathrax, they delved into the sewers to reclaim it. Dierdre, however, took matters into her own hands, and used her magic to summon the Tear from Shathrax's clutches. Its corruption proved greater than she anticipated, though, and when she attempted to cleanse it her body was twisted and warped. Shortly thereafter, agents of Tephra stormed the temple and stole the Tear, taking it through the Shadowfell. When the Challengers returned, she confessed what she had done and urged them to destroy the Tear, as its corruption was too great.