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CHAPTER 3
DRACONIC
MAGIC
Description: This silver dragon scale is expertly shaped
to fit around the throat and is studded with chrysoberyls and
white pearls.
Activation: The resistance to cold and natural armor bonus
granted by the sterling collar function continuously while
the item is worn. Once per day, the wearer can activate the
ability to walk on clouds (an immediate action) for up to 10
minutes.
Effect: A sterling collar grants resistance to cold 5 and a +1
enhancement bonus to natural armor. In addition, the wearer
can walk on clouds just as a silver dragon does; treat this as
an air walk spell (PH 196) that works only in fog or clouds.
Aura/Caster Level: Moderate abjuration and transmutation;
CL 9th.
Construction: Craft Wondrous Item, air walk, barkskin,
resist energy, 6,000 gp, 480 XP, 12 days.
Weight: 1 lb.
Price: 12,000 gp.
TAREKAZARI OF THE
COILED DRAGON
This jeweled amulet allows its owner to speak with a
dead creature or to prevent a fallen comrade from being
reanimated.
Description: This amulet is fashioned from a pan lung
dragon scale decorated with silver and amethysts. It hangs
from a silver chain and bears an inscription that reads “Honor
thine ancestors” in Draconic.
Activation: To activate a tarekazari, its owner must place
the amulet on the remains of a creature and speak the command
word (a standard action). It functions once per day.
When first grasped, the amulet telepathically instructs the
wearer (simultaneously in the Spirit Tongue and Draconic)
on its effects and how to activate it.
Effect: When activated, a tarekazari of the coiled dragon first
recites the names of five generations of the dead creature’s
ancestors. It then allows three questions to be asked of the
creature’s spirit, subject to all the restrictions of a speak with
dead spell (PH 281) cast by a 7th-level caster.
Alternatively, the creature’s remains can be rendered
immune to reanimation as an undead creature by any effect.
This immunity is permanent.
The tarekazari does not permit questioning a creature’s
spirit and then rendering the same creature immune to
reanimation—one effect must be chosen.
Aura/Caster Level: Moderate divination and transmutation;
CL 7th.
Construction: Craft Wondrous Item, hallow or dispel taint
(see Oriental Adventures), legend lore, speak with dead, 1,800 gp,
144 XP, 4 days.
Weight: —.
Price: 3,600 gp.
WATERY HACHIMAKI OF THE
TYPHOON DRAGON
By channeling the mighty power of a tun mi lung dragon,
this headband grants control of the wind and the rain.
Description: This blue silk headband is sewn with black
pearls and features a tun mi lung dragon scale as its central
ornament.
Activation: Activating the hachimaki requires a standard
action. Each of its effects functions once per day. When first
donned, the item telepathically instructs the wearer (simultaneously
in the Spirit Tongue and Draconic) on its effects
and how to activate it.
Effect: A hachimaki can be used to produce a control weather
effect and a control winds effect, each once per day.
Aura/Caster Level: Strong transmutation; CL 13th.
Construction: Craft Wondrous Item, control weather,
control winds, 12,000 gp, 960 XP, 24 days.
Weight: —.
Price: 24,000 gp.
LEGACY ITEM:
WYRMBANE HELM
Fashioned from the skull of a young blue dragon, the Wyrmbane
Helm is an open-faced helmet of fearsome appearance.
The dragon’s skull is merely decorative, riveted to a plain helm
of blue steel and studded leather beneath. The Wyrmbane
Helm is rather bulky, but because dragonbone is light and
strong, it’s not much heavier than a normal helmet.
The Wyrmbane Helm is a legacy item, and as such relies on
the rules presented in Weapons of Legacy.
Nonlegacy Game Statistics: Helm of minor electricity
resistance; Cost 2,000 gp. The helm provides its wearer with
resistance to electricity 5.
Omen: A dry, acrid scent lingers about the helm—the sharp
smell of lightning in the air. Small blue-white sparks fly from
the wearer’s weapons when he strikes a blow in combat, or
from his hands when he casts an evocation spell. The sparks
are harmless.
HISTORY
Long ago, a human realm named Solon sat in the vast deserts
and steppes of the east. A kingdom of sorcerous warlords,
it arose from the wreckage of an even older empire of vast
magical might. Solon competed with other successor-states
for dominion over the lands of the east, and it also battled
the mighty blue wyrm Sturykkazynarr, ruler of the dusty
desert to the south. (DC 10)
Sturykkazynarr was the unquestioned lord of a large,
fierce clan of blue dragons, and commanded the fealty of no
small number of brown and fang dragons, as well. Through
the dragons sworn to serve him, Sturykkazynarr held sway
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