Cephilon

Cephilon is an enormous mythical mana-dynamical beast. It is said to be constructed by the mages from The Palace, but it has never been seen and there is no physical evidence of its existence.

Files have been found in The Palace that resemble plans for complicated mana-dynamical systems: special actuators, joints, sensors et cetera. Plans seemingly describing certain specific compound patterns, compounded compound patterns and those compounds combined to form complete systems like articulating legs, arms and even parts of sensory processing systems have been found. These plans, however, have not been deciphered. They have been written in a secret cryptic language seemingly proprietary to these files.

It is said that the channels and materials are of such high quality that a lot of material is superfluous, the mana continuing to flow even when the channel itself has been removed. [Meta: this is not correct].