Royal rods

Usage examples of scepters.

He reached down and plucked up a number of scepters from among a litter of metal-bound tomes, platters and smaller boxes.

With a growing, grating roar, it canted over on the stony rubble and rattled out into the room: a black catafalque whose upthrust electrum arms held aloft a coffin and several scepters for a few impressive moments before toppling over on its side and crashing into and through the floor.

Electrum arms, smashed and twisted in the fall, melted as shattered scepters in their grasp died amid their own small and roiling magical blazes.

A few moments of work with the long thongs that always rode in his belt pouch, and the scepters were riding ready at his hip, the coffer hidden down the front of his breeches.

The five Dreadspells exchanged awed, delighted glances, the roaring of their unleashed magic swallowing their shouts of excited approval, and poured down death until Elryn slapped at their arms and waved the scepters in his hands.

When he had their attention, the senior Dark Brother aimed the scepters at an angle toward the floor beside the shaft.

Elryn aimed his scepters to Fire through the opened, dust-choked space in the wake of the three staves.

The death of two scepters, one in his hand, should have torn Ingryl Ambelter apart.