The Prokaryote stone was a hard, smooth, brown-colored object that could move within an individual's mind to unleash "ideas, images, memories" they might have forgotten or suppressed.[1]
History[]
Giles used a Prokaryote stone to gather information about the psychological trigger the First Evil was using to control Spike. He enlisted Willow to recite a spell that transformed the stone into a silvery, worm-like creature that crawled past Spike's right eyeball then invaded his brain through his optic nerve. It induced a vivid recollection of when Spike heard the song that was the trigger.[1]
When the Prokaryote stone left Spike's body, he remembered the song and revealed to the others what the trigger was. However, they did not know how to free Spike of the First's influence. Later, Spike remembered the experiences of siring and then staking his mother, the traumatic memories that allowed his trigger.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
- Prokaryotes are cellular organisms that have no nuclear membrane and no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes. Their genetic material is in the form of single continuous strands. Prokaryotes include bacteria and blue-green algae and make up the kingdom Monera.