Legend said the Orb wasn't a weapon, but a repository. It held the fundamental logic used by the First Warlock to bind spirits to his will. To "look into" the Orb was to peer into the very source code of magic. 1. The Visual Descent
If you die while attuned, the orb consumes your soul. You cannot be revived except by Wish or divine intervention. Your soul is added to the “pact collateral” inside the orb, and the orb regains all expended charges. orb of the warlock code
To look into the code was to realize that the world was programmable, but the Orb had a "Security Protocol." Every second Elara spent debugging the spell, the Orb drained a fragment of her memory to fuel its processing power. Legend said the Orb wasn't a weapon, but a repository
When you roll a 1 on an attack roll or saving throw using Charisma, the orb punishes the lapse. You take 2d10 psychic damage (no save), and for 1 minute, any creature that can hear you understands your surface thoughts as if under Detect Thoughts . Your soul is added to the “pact collateral”
Elara pulled her hands away, gasping. The Orb dimmed, returning to its obsidian state. She had the fix, but she also had a terrifying realization: the "Warlock Code" suggested that the entire world was just one execution of a much larger program.