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| - The WV?: Rise up Flash animation features two scene transitions suggesting that the scepters may, in fact, hold Skaia itself. It is unclear whether this was literal or artistic; however, the former is implied by the flow of lava into the orb on Jane's fork causing lava to rain down among the clouds. Recap 2 says the following about the scepters: The two kings command their armies from the field. They each have a scepter that serves a similar purpose to the queens' rings. When activated, a scepter causes a king to be a giant, and bear the properties of all the prototypings. A king is able to deactivate a scepter, to hand it off to another so that they will not be affected in that way. When the black king captures the white king's scepter, the Reckoning begins. The Reckoning sends all the meteors in the veil toward Skaia, in stages. First the small ones, then gradually, the bigger ones, over a 24 hour period. It's implied that defeating the Black King or destroying his scepter causes the Reckoning to end; since the Reckoning (and thus the end of the world) begins when the White King's scepter is captured, this would fit in with the role of kings in Chess, where their capture ends the game.
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