Asomatous Canvas Projector (stage)

This inches-wide, rounded cube packs in an incredible amount of arcanotechnological components. A nozzle on one side can project a vibrant, animated illusion.

Asomatous canvas projectors have become popular across Lanjyr for civic color, theatrical entertainment, animated artwork and advertisements, and more. While the figment sheds light, it is nowhere as luminous as that of arctech everbright lamps and actual electric incandescent filament bulbs.

Some talented artists have experimented with sets of multiple cubes intended to be played in sequence, creating an animated and audible story in five-minute segments; these exhibits have been called kinetograms.

By touching the cube as an action and thinking upon a desired figment (or transferring an image from an alacritous camera), the user can set the cube to memorize the figment and then project it when the desired conditions are met, just as if casting a programmed illusion spell. The uncommon stage projector can fill a 30-foot cube out to a range of 120 feet. This functions in many respects as a programmed illusion . However, the figment lasts indefinitely, sheds light as bright as a torch, and has a distinctly washed out, somewhat grainy and flickering character (similar to what we’d recognize as early silent films) that makes it completely obvious to even a common lizard that it’s an illusion.

Since anyone can adjust the cube’s programming, asomatous canvas projectors are normally kept under literal lock and key, often in bronze filigreed boxes with a gap just large enough to allow the invisible strands of illusory magic to pour through. Unsurprisingly, these cubes are prime targets for pranksters and protestors.