Artifact
Artifact noun - A man-made object taken as a whole.
Relics
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Which you get right at the beginning and keep throughout the expansion, levelling them as you go via relics and artifact power.
Source: Evolving Weapon - Artifact of Doom The three elemental relics appear to be this, but in Conception it is revealed that each of them empower different things of a human which is why Seya went batshit insane.
- The Covenant are artifact seekers searching for relics of the Forerunners they worship, but a strange reading identifying the human colony Harvest as having thousands of relics causes some Covenant to launch an initial skirmish thinking humans are keeping the treasures for themselves.
Source: First Contact Faux Pas
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