The golden Sun Scepter, although broken in half, still allowed a glimpse of its once magnificent form. This was definitely an artifact of extraordinary value, and its owner must have been a person of towering power and influence.
Liszt reached out and picked up one half of the scepter.
It was a rod, with a metallic texture, but it was not clear what metal it had been made from. It felt moderately heavy in hand, perhaps slightly lighter than a similar iron rod. The pattern on it was very regular, with one ring nestled within another, yet it was a mystery what it intended to convey.
At the very end of the scepter was a hexagonal prism one finger in length.
On the cross section of the break, there were jagged notches, not as if it had been chopped or smashed, but as though the break was caused by some kind of stress.
"So it's not made of a single metal, but a metal rod cast in layers," Liszt concluded as he looked at the colors on the fractured surface.