Okay, all this talk of Artifacts has me reliving good times.
Let's share some of our own cool artifacts.
Here's one of mine
The Eye of Roaming sight.
Appearance: A stickpin style cloak or robe clasp with a huge greenish orange Tigers eye gem for it's centerpiece.
History: This artifact is the sorcerous creation of Ravana the king of the Raksasha tiger demons. Ravana, later in his immortal life became obsessed with knowing and seeing all to keep from having his precious things taken from him, and asked a skilled mortal glassmaker to fill his vast castle (carved inside a great mountain in the south) with the finest of silvered mirrors such that he could watch all things going on in his home through their reflections, all of which focused on his throne of ivory and silver. He did this, for so keen was Ravana's eyes that he could discern the smallest of details in even the tiniest of reflections.
In return, the Rakasha king offered the man a pendent in which he would place great power and knowledge of many things.
However, the man, was wise in his craft as well as in life, for a glassmakers life is a hard one. He knew that the Raksasha would not bargain truthfully, and that once he was done setting the last mirror and came for his payment, he would receive it and die on the claws of the king.
So it was that he arranged for the last mirror to be set, so that it would catch the bright morning light and blind the Raksasha king for a time.
Sure enough, after a great midnight feast of thanks for the Glassworker's efforts, with the fare consisting of exotic beasts, cooling sherbets, and wines made by creatures of the air and fire and earth, the Tiger King, Ravana betrayed the glassmaker, dangling before him the amulet with its single great jewel, but then laughing and telling the man he meant to kill him dead after he gave him his payment and feast upon his liver.
The morning sun however choose that moment to fall upon the final mirror and be reflected a hundred hundred times, gaining in strength as it went. The light struck the Tiger king squarely in his great green gold eyes and blinded him, causing a great tear of the same color to land upon the amulet, changing the single great clear gem it once was into the likeness of the king's own eye, and in so doing imbued the object with a portion of his kingly and discerning sight.
As he flailed about, the king dropped this treasure, and the Glassmaker scooped it up and ran.
Knowing that merely blinding the tiger king was not enough, he then threw a great bladder of blood onto the floor behind him which burst, staining the Raksasha king's floor and robes a bright scarlet and hiding the man's scent from the King's nose.
All day long the man ran from the King through his underground castle to confuse his scent and path, and at last came to the entrance to the glittering hall of silver.
In a final move to secure his escape, he turned the final mirror at the door to close the way into the castle behind him, locking the Raksasha king in his own hall among ten million reflections and the light of a single day captured for all time... or at least until the door is found and opened once more.
In addition to its more mundane powers, the item has two unique abilities that define its use.
First, it can create a Wizard Eye effect when the user puts the tiger eye gem to his own eye and concentrates. While so doing the user can see through the wizard eye it creates.
The range of the wizard eye is unlimited, as is its duration of use, but it can only be used to see places that the user has been to with the amulet openly displayed.
The eye can be blocked or detected as any scrying device can. However, while using this eye, the user loses all sense of his own body to the point of complete insensibility.
And second, the item allows the use of any one feat per day, subject to DM approval...(this is the gift of knowledge that the Raksasha promised)
Powers
Minor benign powers 3 minor
suggested powers
Light at 30th level 3/day
Darkness at 30th level 3/day
faerie fire at 30th level 3/day
Major benign powers 3 major
suggested powers
Clairvoyance and Clairaudience 30th level 3/day
True seeing 3/week
Glassee 3/week
Minor malevolent effect 2
Suggested effects
Wound user for use of any minor effect for 1d12 (the item "bites" the user causing them to bleed.
Blind user for 1d6 rounds for the use of a major power and take 1d12 damage
Major malevolent effect 1
suggested effects
Each week of use were all powers are used will cause the user to gain some "appearance characteristic" of a Raksasha.
Order of progression: Tiger eyes, Fuzzy tiger ears, sand paper tongue, Body fur all over, Tail, Tiger nose, Whiskers, Big Fangs, become completely carnivorous, Claws on hands, Self grooming habits, final transformation.
Note, it doesn't turn you into one, you just start looking like one.
Prime power: Gain the powers and immunities of a Raksasha for 1 day 1/week. (including shape change ability and immunity to all damage save that of a blessed bolt.)
3xI ____,____,____
3XII ____,____,____
2XIII ____,____,____
1XIV ____
1XV ____
Suggested method of destruction... Return it to the Raksasha King, and let him lick it. This will return the gem to its normal state, and break the enchantment on the object allowing it to be destroyed through conventional means.
This could be fun.
Let's share some of our own cool artifacts.
Here's one of mine
The Eye of Roaming sight.
Appearance: A stickpin style cloak or robe clasp with a huge greenish orange Tigers eye gem for it's centerpiece.
History: This artifact is the sorcerous creation of Ravana the king of the Raksasha tiger demons. Ravana, later in his immortal life became obsessed with knowing and seeing all to keep from having his precious things taken from him, and asked a skilled mortal glassmaker to fill his vast castle (carved inside a great mountain in the south) with the finest of silvered mirrors such that he could watch all things going on in his home through their reflections, all of which focused on his throne of ivory and silver. He did this, for so keen was Ravana's eyes that he could discern the smallest of details in even the tiniest of reflections.
In return, the Rakasha king offered the man a pendent in which he would place great power and knowledge of many things.
However, the man, was wise in his craft as well as in life, for a glassmakers life is a hard one. He knew that the Raksasha would not bargain truthfully, and that once he was done setting the last mirror and came for his payment, he would receive it and die on the claws of the king.
So it was that he arranged for the last mirror to be set, so that it would catch the bright morning light and blind the Raksasha king for a time.
Sure enough, after a great midnight feast of thanks for the Glassworker's efforts, with the fare consisting of exotic beasts, cooling sherbets, and wines made by creatures of the air and fire and earth, the Tiger King, Ravana betrayed the glassmaker, dangling before him the amulet with its single great jewel, but then laughing and telling the man he meant to kill him dead after he gave him his payment and feast upon his liver.
The morning sun however choose that moment to fall upon the final mirror and be reflected a hundred hundred times, gaining in strength as it went. The light struck the Tiger king squarely in his great green gold eyes and blinded him, causing a great tear of the same color to land upon the amulet, changing the single great clear gem it once was into the likeness of the king's own eye, and in so doing imbued the object with a portion of his kingly and discerning sight.
As he flailed about, the king dropped this treasure, and the Glassmaker scooped it up and ran.
Knowing that merely blinding the tiger king was not enough, he then threw a great bladder of blood onto the floor behind him which burst, staining the Raksasha king's floor and robes a bright scarlet and hiding the man's scent from the King's nose.
All day long the man ran from the King through his underground castle to confuse his scent and path, and at last came to the entrance to the glittering hall of silver.
In a final move to secure his escape, he turned the final mirror at the door to close the way into the castle behind him, locking the Raksasha king in his own hall among ten million reflections and the light of a single day captured for all time... or at least until the door is found and opened once more.
In addition to its more mundane powers, the item has two unique abilities that define its use.
First, it can create a Wizard Eye effect when the user puts the tiger eye gem to his own eye and concentrates. While so doing the user can see through the wizard eye it creates.
The range of the wizard eye is unlimited, as is its duration of use, but it can only be used to see places that the user has been to with the amulet openly displayed.
The eye can be blocked or detected as any scrying device can. However, while using this eye, the user loses all sense of his own body to the point of complete insensibility.
And second, the item allows the use of any one feat per day, subject to DM approval...(this is the gift of knowledge that the Raksasha promised)
Powers
Minor benign powers 3 minor
suggested powers
Light at 30th level 3/day
Darkness at 30th level 3/day
faerie fire at 30th level 3/day
Major benign powers 3 major
suggested powers
Clairvoyance and Clairaudience 30th level 3/day
True seeing 3/week
Glassee 3/week
Minor malevolent effect 2
Suggested effects
Wound user for use of any minor effect for 1d12 (the item "bites" the user causing them to bleed.
Blind user for 1d6 rounds for the use of a major power and take 1d12 damage
Major malevolent effect 1
suggested effects
Each week of use were all powers are used will cause the user to gain some "appearance characteristic" of a Raksasha.
Order of progression: Tiger eyes, Fuzzy tiger ears, sand paper tongue, Body fur all over, Tail, Tiger nose, Whiskers, Big Fangs, become completely carnivorous, Claws on hands, Self grooming habits, final transformation.
Note, it doesn't turn you into one, you just start looking like one.
Prime power: Gain the powers and immunities of a Raksasha for 1 day 1/week. (including shape change ability and immunity to all damage save that of a blessed bolt.)
3xI ____,____,____
3XII ____,____,____
2XIII ____,____,____
1XIV ____
1XV ____
Suggested method of destruction... Return it to the Raksasha King, and let him lick it. This will return the gem to its normal state, and break the enchantment on the object allowing it to be destroyed through conventional means.
This could be fun.
