Book of Bone and Ebony

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CHAPTER THREE • THE WONDERS OF THE DEAD
nature, the mouths of the screaming faces embossed in
the bow’s soulsteel will open their mouths and howl in
agony.
If the wielder chooses to spend 5 additional motes
of Essence, then the bow will taint his next shot with the
corruption of the walking dead. Should the victim of the
shot be slain by it, then he will arise as an undead
creature controlled by a hungry ghost. The resulting
creature has the physical statistics and abilities of the
victim who was slain but has an essentially animal
intelligence, as the hungry ghost seeks only to slaughter
those around it. It will, however, obey the commands of
the bow’s wielder. The body of a possessed victim falls to
pieces and deliquesces a full day after combat. If the
victim does not die from the wound, then he is safe for
the moment — from this fate, at least — and the
wielder’s spent Essence is wasted.
The bow can only create one feral zombie per turn.
While it can be used in Archery Charms, or even
Combos, multiple arrow strikes cannot create feral
zombies. That requires an individual shot and the
expenditure of 5 motes of Essence.
Artifact Traits:
Power •••, Usefulness ••••, Game Impact •••,
Script Immunity •••;
Drawback ••• (Component •, Notoriety ••)
CHART OF THE FINAL LANDS (ARTIFACT •••)
Penned on white grave-linen with ink made from
corpse-ashes, and always pallid and clean however
dirty its surroundings, this map is woven with enchantment.
It requires an investment of 5 motes of
Essence for the owner to attune herself to it, but once
this is done, it can not only show the owner’s location
and surroundings but can also track other people
across the Underworld.
In order to identify her own surroundings, the
owner must unroll the Chart of the Final Lands and
spend another 5 motes of Essence while concentrating
on the scale she desires; yards, miles, leagues, tens of
leagues or hundreds of leagues. The Chart will ripple
and then redraw itself in shadowy lines, showing the
owner’s location at the center. Her surroundings are
marked on the map in the scale that she desired, with
50 units of the desired scale in each direction. Features
of the landscape are clearly marked, but buildings only
have their outer limits indicated on the Chart. The
exception to this is if the owner is currently inside a
building and has asked the Chart for the smallest
possible scale. In that case, the rooms around her will
be marked, and any secret doors not hidden by magic
of any circle that prevents scrying will also be evident
on the Chart. No actual names are written on the
Chart, except for the five rivers of the Underworld, and
Stygia itself, should either be within range.