Khnurn's Needle

Summary

A simplistic needle, forged out of some kind of sun-gold, its tip hardened with a white-looking metal that is unidentifiable in nature. With a slight twisting nature, a small smooth point for fingers to hold, and a thread-hole lined with a blue crysium material, a surprising amount of detail went into shaping it so. The needle itself is always accompanied by three silvery bobbins, themselves echoing the twisting design of the needle. No matter where the needle goes, the bobbins are always nearby to be found--in bags, bookcases, drawers, pockets. It's impossible to separate the four pieces from each other completely, much to many vexing attempts at doing so.   Khnurn is one of Sa-kemet's rare few transcultural gods, being found in Atenkhet, the Sa-kemet Tribes, and other powers in the region. Depending on whose mythology, he can be either nebusah, muurun, or rachtoh. The last of which is often a more exclusive variant to the mertakan who dwell in the deserts, in which Khnurn is a woman.   He is often called the Weaver God, or more fancifully, the God of Threads and Needles. His domain is that of textiles, be it threads, clothes, or other things relating to the art of weaving. It is to him that offerings of wondrous greatness are given to be evaluated. If they are accepted, Khnurn puts them for sale in his store to the other goddesses. Thus, whether believed in or not, acceptance into his store is often a hallmark by which some mistresses strive to reach.   According to myth, Khnurn's needle is the god's prized instrument. It is with that he has hand-crafted the divine weaves that adorn the other goddesses, imbuing ineffable beauty and noble power. Yet, among his prized disciples, the people who were once rachtoh, some grew jealous of his fantastic capability. They stole his needle and bobbins, trying to discern how it gave him such supreme talent. In turn, Khnurn wasn't able to complete the weave of a fellow goddess, earning ridicule and scorn for failing his task.   Lit with anger, Khnurn searched high and low, only finding his needle in the hands of his followers when they came to return it. For doing so, their lives were spared; but for stealing his needle, they were punished to lose their weaving abilities. So it came to be the rachtoh were changed, becoming the mertakan of the deserts, the huntresses of the sands, forever to never weave with silk again. Ecologists often scoff at the idea, but the myth is pervasive in the cultural mind of the mertakan.   Stranger still, despite the seeming belief that Khnurn's needle was returned to him, there are some prominent legends that it was not. In these, the rachtoh intended to return it, but died or became lost, unable to fulfill the task. Khnurn, being told of some of his followers what happened, changed them all into the supreme huntresses the mertakan are known to be. Then, he tasked them to find his needle and bobbins, and they would not be returned to form until they succeeded.   Where his needle is, and whether or not it was real at all, remains to be found.