After killers failed to assassinate the Emperor in 1499 IC, a merchant from distant Cathay presented the monarch with this amulet. It was a small disk of copper carved with strange sigils. While the Emperor gratefully accepted the item, he had no love for magic or anything of the sort, and so, he promptly had the merchant executed and ordered the Amulet destroyed. But the guard tasked with the duty kept it instead, selling it for a tankard of ale. It changed hands many times, finally resurfacing briefly during the Great War Against Chaos, when a Captain who, after a failed poisoning by a Cultist, noticed its change of colour when in came close to the poisoned wine. It was lost again shortly after the Captain was stabbed to death on the night following.[1a]