>>720031464
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The Shamans tuned with the spirits of the dead, then used that to generate amber sap through trees that would then be imbibed in a larvel tear grown from spiritgraves.
The giant dead snake in the Shaman Village was coiled around an egg-shaped object, that was the Rune of the Unborn, which Marika stole when the village was destroyed by the Hornsent.
Marika used that power on herself in order to ascend to Godhood, but the sacrifices tainted the grace she stole with death, creating gold and shadow, and a reality with no defined new death and life but an eternal rebirth.