The Transcendence Lexicon

The Transcendence Lexicon is one of many alien storage lexicons, kept in The Ark, that holds the genetic information of several races with enhanced and even somewhat god-like capabilities. It was created by the Echanai engineers during the building of the Guidance Initiative. Though, there are many lexicons that have equal function as the Transcendence Lexicon, stored in the Ark, the Transcendence Lexicon was eventually stolen and reconfigured by Nubix rulers after The Warden Siege. The modifications would allow the lexicon, itself to serve as an information source for a component that altered the DNA of a given subject.

Pharaoh's Cube
The Transcendence Lexicon the Nubix refugees once possessed would eventually be modified into what eventually became known as the "Pharaoh's Cube". It essentially became a device that could exert a beam to a target, mutating and transforming the living target into a hybrid of it's native species and a species logged within the lexicon. Though the lexicon can be reconfigured to several different races, it stays on the "Nubix" setting for thousands of years.

The Pharaoh's Cube has a separate component, called The Amulet of Nubix which serves as a target piece. The Lexicon holds the information to create the Amulet, but only allows one to exist at one time. The Edawa became knowledgeable of the alien technology and found it abandoned in the City of the Gods. Ever since, they protected it as they traveled west of Egypt.