Book of Bone and Ebony

EXALTED • BOOK OF BONE AND EBONY
wishes for it to resume its smaller form, and she can do this
from either side of the bridge — or even while standing on
it. It will then shrink, returning to being a chain of
vertebrae in her hand. If people should still be on the
bridge at this point, they will fall.
Artifact Traits:
Power ••, Usefulness •••, Game Impact ••, Script
Immunity ••;
Drawback •• (Component •, Notoriety •)
BONE HARPOON (ARTIFACT ••)
This barbed harpoon is carved from the bones of a
dead behemoth, inlaid with soulsteel, and is paired with a
soulsteel gauntlet. Most of the time, only the gauntlet
exists, but at a moment’s notice, the wearer of the gauntlet
can summon up the harpoon. The harpoon may be used in
hand-to-hand combat, and it has the statistics of a dire
lance (see Exalted, p. 342) under those circumstances.
However, it has another use.
If thrown so that it strikes a target (the throw must
connect, and the target must suffer at least one level of
damage), then the user can spend a mote of Essence to
invoke the harpoon’s true power. A soulsteel chain shimmers
into existence between the gauntlet and the harpoon,
and it promptly tightens, dragging the target to a mere
three feet away from the harpoon’s owner, at which point
the chain vanishes, leaving the butt of the harpoon in the
owner’s gauntleted hand. The harpoon may be thrown
again, or it may be used in hand-to-hand combat, as the
owner wishes.
In order to drag the target to him, the Harpoon’s
owner must oppose his Strength + Melee to the target’s
Strength + Endurance. If the player of the harpoon’s owner
scores equal or more successes, then the target is dragged
across to the wielder of the harpoon, though this does not
cause additional damage. This takes a full combat turn. If
the target’s player scores more successes, then the target
can remain where she is standing, though the harpoon is
still in her flesh and the chain still exists. The harpoon’s
owner may attempt to drag her to his feet again next turn,
or he may choose to let the chain vanish and retrieve the
harpoon at his leisure.
Artifact Traits:
Power ••, Usefulness ••••, Game Impact ••, Script
Immunity •••;
Drawback •• (Component •, Notoriety •)
BRACELETS OF PASSIONATE ARTISTRY
(ARTIFACT ••)
These hammered soulsteel bracelets are several inches
wide, stretching halfway up the forearm, but always precisely
fit their owner, however large or small his arms. They raise the
owner’s Craft, giving him a bonus of one die to all rolls
involving works of art or craft that he creates while wearing
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them. If he is working in an area where he actually has a
specialization (such as Soulsteel or First Age Weapons) then
he gains a bonus of two dice, as the bracelets respond
particularly well to directed and focused passion for crafting.
The bracelets are made of soulsteel that has been
hammered from the ghosts of craftsmen and is unornamented
other than the single small soulfire crystal which is set in
each bracelet. When their owner is working, the bracelets
croon in wailing occult harmony as they remember their joy
in craftwork. The bracelets can be separated, but they must
both be worn to be effective. If one is destroyed, the other
immediately shatters and falls to dust.
Artifact Traits:
Power •, Usefulness •••, Game Impact •, Script
Immunity ••;
Drawback •• (Component •, Notoriety •)
CANDELABRUM OF REMEMBERED KIN
(ARTIFACT ••)
Sometimes, the dead wish to see how their living kin
fare. And, if they are willing to pay the price, there are ways
of doing so. This slender, five-branched candelabrum is
made of soulsteel, set with garnets and onyx from the
mines of the Underworld, and it offers the dead the chance
to briefly see their families again. When candles of a
certain formulation are placed in the candelabra and lit in
a certain way, the smoke rises from the holders on the four
outer arms and the innermost socket and forms a circular
window in the air. This window, which is a full yard in
diameter, will display the particular family member of
whom the candle-lighter was thinking, for as long as the
candles burn, even if the family member moves around
during that period. The power of the artifact can be
protected against by countermagic or by spells that block
scrying and sorcerous spying.
The candles must be made from a particular mixture
of pounded ash, juniper berries and melted wax from used
funeral candles, with wicks of linen taken from the shrouds
of members of the family in question. Another family
member must light the candles and must be directly linked
by blood to the descendant (or ancestor, if still alive) who
is the target of observation. The candles will burn for a
maximum of half an hour. If blown out before that time is
over, they can be relit and reused. The candelabrum itself
may be used a maximum of five times a day, assuming that
the owner has sufficient candles for his wishes. Those who
are observed through it may, on a successful Perception +
Occult roll at a difficulty of 7, smell juniper and ash in the
air and see a faint shadow of smoke hovering where no
smoke should be.
Artifact Traits:
Power ••, Usefulness ••, Game Impact •, Script
Immunity ••;
Drawback •••• (Component ••, Notoriety ••)