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“ These beings are so powerful that not much can ever harm them. They live forever. Their personal boxes exist solely in case they get tired of this life. They willingly enter their boxes--their crypts, if you will--and no longer exist. „
― Dunster Happ to Bellflower, Fables #98 — "Red Dawn, Chapter Five of Rose Red"


The magic box artifacts are magical containers that first appear in flashbacks in Fables #98 — "Red Dawn, Chapter Five of Rose Red."

Description

“ Each of the Great Powers has his own personal magic box artifact. For example, Hope has her Pandoran Jar. Your North Wind fellow has his Cask of Ancient Winds. Mister Dark has his Vault of Primal Darkness. And so on. They all have something like that. „
― Dunster Happ to Bellflower, Fables #98 — "Red Dawn, Chapter Five of Rose Red"


These artifacts are personal magic boxes that belong to the Great Powers. The Boxing League copied the idea to lock away more malign powers. According to Dunster Happ, because not much can harm them, the Powers use these boxes as a way to die or commit suicide. The boxes are hidden away in safe otherworldly locations that can only be accessed by their owners. It is theorized that they pass on to some new afterlife of sorts.[1] It is shown that a Great Power can be killed by another's box artifact when Mister Dark was pulled into the North Wind's artifact.[2]

Known boxes

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Appearances

Fables

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Fables #98 — "Red Dawn, Chapter Five of Rose Red"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Fables #106 — "Downfall: Chapter Five of Super-Team"

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 As first established in Fables #111 — "Windswept: Chapter Four of Inherit the Wind," Winter Wolf succeeded her grandfather, the North Wind, as the new North Wind; presumably, this means that she inherited his Cask of Ancient Winds.