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Strong divination; caster level 13th; Craft Wondrous Item, futuresight; Price 100,000 gp; Weight 4 lbs. Charm Sets Charm sets consist of collections of various strange fetish items and charms, gathered together in precise ways and activated with a minor spell. The items are always natural or at least somehow related to the natural world. Charm sets draw upon the power inherent in all things to produce a variety of effects, only a few of which are described here. They work on the basis of their own strange logic. Followers of Essoch are often skilled in the use of charm sets. The key to the charm sets lies with the items and ingredients that comprise them. Such items include skulls (often small animal skulls), bones, bits of flesh, teeth, small bags of herbs, string soaked in a herbal brew, slivers of precious metal, leaves, stalks of plants, blood, bat wings, animal claws, colored stones, feathers, locks of hair, bark, eggshell, seeds, acorns, nuts, dried mud (often with herbs mixed in), paint, tiny clay figurines, nails or pins, wood splinters, scratched shards of glass, and so on. When the proper charms are assembled in a specific manner and chanted over for an hour, the charm set is ready. To activate a charm set, one must intentionally cast a cantrip spell into it (ignoring the spell’s normal effect), at which point the charm set takes on the property it was designed for. The effect lasts for one hour per caster level. When the effect ends, the components and charms become useless and cannot be used as part of a charm set again. A spell more powerful than a cantrip can activate the charm set, but the set gains no enhanced benefit from doing so. Charm sets are simple to dispel, their caster level being 0. Their effects are always treated as 0-level effects (even when the potency of the effect would suggest otherwise). A few example charm sets include the following: Avoidance: The creator must assemble the following ingredients upon a headband, hat, helmet, or headdress: three clear crystals tied with leather cords and sprinkled with powdered hemlock, a metal strip etched with special symbols, and four claws of a badger. Chapter One: The Oracle of Jezer-At 17
18 Book of Hallowed Might II: Portents and Visions When activated, the charm set forces anyone wishing to attack the wearer to make a Will saving throw (DC 11). Those succeeding can attack normally. Those failing the saving throw cannot make successful attack rolls against the wearer and cannot cast offensive spells at him or her for 10 rounds. Once the saving throw is attempted, successful or not, a creature need make no further saving throws against this specific charm set. Cost of components: 230 gp. Time to create: 11 hours. Devilry: The creator must assemble the following ingredients upon a wooden staff: three jagged bits of metal, 16 teeth from monstrous humanoids, a 6-foot leather cord soaked in ogre sweat and cut into pieces to tie the other components to the staff, and a smattering of human blood. When activated, the saving throw DCs of the wielder’s spells with the evil descriptor gain a +2 bonus. Cost of components: 450 gp. Time to create: nine hours. Grace: The creator must assemble the following ingredients upon a belt: a rabbit’s foot painted red, three teeth from a gazelle, a silver thread 12 inches long, and five leaves from a rosebush. The creator wraps the leaves in a piece of parchment that bears special symbols drawn in ink made from the blood of a cockatrice, then ties off each end of the rolled parchment with pieces of string exactly 4 inches long. When activated, the charm set grants the belt’s wearer a +4 competence bonus to Balance, Climb, Escape Artist, Jump, and Tumble checks. Cost of components: 120 gp. Time to create: 10 hours. Might: The creator must assemble the following ingredients upon a bracer or armband: 2 feet of metal wire, a circular iron plate set with a red stone, and a leather pouch made from the flesh of a bull and containing a shard of glass soaked in bear’s blood and inscribed with a special symbol. When activated, the charm set provides a +2 enhancement bonus to Strength. Cost of components: 200 gp. Time to create: 16 hours. Personality: The creator must assemble the following ingredients on an individual’s person: two cloth pouches filled with rose petals and powdered rhino horn, a strap of cloth rubbed with sea salt and bearing three circular gold charms, and a broken dagger hilt. When activated, the charm set provides a +2 enhancement bonus to Charisma. Cost of components: 200 gp. Time to create: 12 hours. Resistance: The creator must assemble the following ingredients upon a vest, cloak, robe, or shirt: a small baked clay orb filled with incense, a bit of melted tallow with a pair of bone needles pushed through in a cross shape, and three coiled rat tails in a pouch made of a folded bit of snakeskin wrapped in a piece of purple string. When activated, the charm set provides a +1 resistance bonus to saving throws. Cost of components: 75 gp. Time to create: seven hours. Speed: The creator must assemble the following ingredients upon a pair of boots or on bands meant to be wrapped around a creature’s legs: three feathers from a giant eagle, a silver charm made to look like a horse’s head, a 1-inch circle of cloth with the claw of a lizard pinned to it with a bronze pin, and two 2-footlong pieces of leather cord soaked in urine and vinegar. When activated, the charm set provides a +10 bonus to speed. Cost of components: 300 gp. Time to create: 14 hours. Striking: The creator must assemble the following ingredients upon a melee weapon: a small animal bone carved with a special symbol and a bag containing three beans, a handful of copper dust, iron filings, and ground terrifin root (found in any humid climate). The bag and bone are affixed tightly to the weapon’s haft, handle, or pommel. When activated, the charm set provides a +2 enhancement bonus to attack and damage rolls. Cost of components: 150 gp. Time to create: eight hours. Warding: The creator must assemble the following ingredients upon a shield or on an individual’s person: two small animal skulls marked with special symbols, a patch of animal flesh from a paw or claw (or flesh from a humanoid’s hand) painted with blue symbols, a muddy paste including ground garlic and dark green leaves, and at least 3 feet of cord soaked in water boiled with lizard eggs. The cord is used to affix all the other bits but must remain uncut. When activated, the charm set provides a +2 enhancement bonus to Armor Class. Cost of components: 200 gp. Time to create: 10 hours. Artifacts The holy symbols of Essoch and Enaul stem from the legends of artifacts touched by the gods—items that carry immense divinatory power. Crook of Essoch: This knarled wooden staff measures 7 feet long and has a hooked end. Legend has it that Essoch himself created the staff and wielded it for a time while he walked in the world. The crook is a +4 defending quarterstaff. It grants the wielder a +5 competence bonus to Profession (speaker of portents) and Survival checks, and allows him to use any of the following spells each once per day: commune, divination, futuresight†, and prophetic warning†. Strong divination; caster level 20th; Weight 5 lbs. Hourglass of Enaul: This hourglass measures 2 feet high and 6 inches across. The multicolored sands within the glass shimmer as they fall. It was made as a gift to Enaul himself by a powerful high priest, but it was stolen by means of a powerful planar gate before it could be delivered. The wielder can choose any moment in the future and see what happens in the spot where she stands holding the hourglass. As with all visions of the future, this is only a possible future. Each time a mortal uses the hourglass, the user must attempt a Will saving throw (DC 20 + number of times the hourglass has been used in the past week) or go completely and permanently mad. Overwhelming divination; caster level 25th; Weight 20 lbs.
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