Rimebound Pendant

Origin

Fashioned by Professor Sylic in the Underhall Archives beneath The Collegium Arcanum as a controlled research tool for studying The Frost Corruption without permitting raw exposure to it.

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Current Location

with Professor Sylic

Background

The Rimebound Pendant began as a modified Heat Stone Pendant. Sylic bound a cut fragment of Heat Stone together with a living corrupted trace inside a dense primordial ooze medium used for specimen containment. The result is a portable equilibrium: enough warmth to keep the sample from blooming outward, but not enough to destroy the pattern he is trying to study.

At a glance it resembles an ordinary heat stone pendant, practical rather than ornate. On a second look the stone is visibly wrong. Warm mineral light and icy blue-white rime appear braided together inside the setting, as if two incompatible states have been forced to share the same small space. Sylic uses it when he needs proximity to corrupted matter without carrying an exposed sample through the archives.

The pendant offers connection, not comfort. Those who wear it for long report numb fingertips, cold dreams, and the unsettling sense that something on the other side of the link has noticed them.

Properties

• Functions as a contained living sample of The Frost Corruption, stabilized by the bound Heat Stone.
• Can be worn or handled when studying tainted objects, tissues, or active traces that would otherwise be too dangerous to keep near the body.
• The wearer can use a charge to Detect Frost Corruption while wearing the pendant. The pendant regains five charges once per day.
• Nearby corrupted creatures, objects, or places cause the blue-white veining inside the pendant to sharpen and the surrounding warmth to falter.
• If the heat stone binding were ever cracked, drained, or separated from the sample, the pendant would become a contamination source rather than a research tool.

Detect Frost Corruption

Any living thing you see within 10 feet of yourself, you can take the Magic action and you will mentally see a flash of frost & ice if that creature is infected or you will receive nothing if it is not infected.

Each charge you use higher than one you receive a flash of the moment that living thing was infected by the Frost Corruption.  Each charge allows you to go back one infection event.

If you use three charges on a corrupted creature. The wearer would see a flash of frost & ice, then a flash of the moment that creature was infected and then a flash of the moment the creature that infected it was infected.

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