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Adrenian’s Circle +2 Ring of Protection and Elven Kind (+5 Move Silently)
Silver ring set with obsidian engraved with entwined leaves and vines.
The master wizard Athaornath Veran from Wheloon of Cormyr smithed Adrenian’s CIrcle in 544 as a reward for the legendary adventurer Aranorin Saertirae (Silver-horizon) who performed great deeds across Faerun. It was lost in 591 when Aranorin was lost at sea after exploring a vast dungeon somewhere near Leuthilspar of Evermeet. The ring turned up on the finger of an aquatic elf somewhere near Athkatla in 760 and passed into the keeping of a druidic circle. The druids then passed the ring to Galdenon the Ranger who passed it to his son Adrenian in 788.
Arraldris (Fury’s Heart ) +1 Flaming Long Sword
Fury’s Heart is a vicious weapon set with amethyst stones on the rain guard and filigreed with silver along the foible. The hilt is wrapped in cracked basilisk leather. When swung, a trail of smoke emanates from the blade in a black arc.
A high priest of Kossuth; Pycero Wynbracs from Hlammach of Impiltur smithed Fury’s Heart in 521 as a reward for a warrior named Oldim Dularran who set out to slay a Great Ice Worm known as Hallacref. Something happened however, and Oldim vanished. Eventually, Pycero tacked Oldim to the underdark where he found that Oldim had ran afoul of a drow necromancer called Xudra Wehlnet (Weaver-grace The Dark-host). A great battle ensued but Oldim had already heard Xudra’s whispered enchantments or words and had descended into great evil and Pycero was killed.
A few years later Oldim was betrayed and killed by his master and the blade became a part of Xudra’s horde. In 545 Xudra was plane shifted while recovering a stolen treasure somewhere near Hlammach of Impiltur.
Adrenian the Ranger came upon the sword in 789 when investigating the cause of a forest fire just south ofthe Wealdath wood. In an underground cavern flooded with lava in the heart of the wood, he found Arraldris, its flame and smoke being the cause of the fires. Several salamanders protected the blade but Adrenian prevailed and recovered the sword.
Ayanette’s Love Charm (Amulet of Natural Armour +2)
This amulet hangs on a delicate silver chain and is a silver pendant with a rough uncut clear crustal set into its top where the chain meets the charm. The silver metal is engraved with two entwined unicorns on one side and the symbol of Lurue (a unicorn’s head) on the other.
Ayanette was a drow ranger from Menzoberranzan who had turned from evil and embraced the surface world and worship of Luru. She also took a human name (her original name is lost).
Over several decades between 1300 and 1363, she roamed the Sword Coast and after experiencing others’ intolerance of her, settled in solitude in The Wealdath where she served the nature gods and druids of that place.
The amulet was created for her by the wild elf druid Galmrane in 1333 as a gift of love, the two were married later that year and had a daughter who they named Luru in honor of the unicorn goddess.
In 1370, wild elves had tracked Galmrane to their home and were shocked to find him married to a sworn enemy and father to a half drow.
Their bigotry lead to a battle where they tried to take Ayanette and Luru away but in the fight, they were both struck a mortal wound and Galmrane could only watch as they died and he was dragged off to face his elders for his “crime”.
What he did not see was that The Unicorn Goddess spared Ayanette and Luru by transforming them into unicorns – one of purest white, the other of darkest black. It is said that mother and daughter still roam the Wealdath today looking for Glamrane.
What became of the druid is unknown but his amulet sank deep into the earth and was claimed by the forest eventually finding its way into the Underdark where it was found in the lair of a Boggle by Syprendias the Imaskari Necromancer.
Bracers of Bezantur (+1 Bracers of Armour)
These bracers are forged of thin steel and silver plated. They carry various lines of thaumaturgy about its cuffs and is set with red enamel marking them as Thayan in origin.
The history of this item is short, one of the many items fashioned by the Red Wizards of Thay for their various nefarious needs. These particular bracers were created in 1370 alongside a matching cloak, by the promising Wizard Latah Gar, an evoker and slaver from Bezantur. He travelled to far away Amn to serve under his master; Fenarane The Clean, a Red Wizard stationed in Athkatla in 1372. His work here did not last long as he was sent on an expedition into the Cloud Peak Mountains in early 1375 in search of an ancient ruin.
Calestvae (Faithful Light) +2 Silver Short Sword
Calestvae (Faithful light) is a slender silver sword set with king's tears stones on either end of the cross guard and filigreed with mithril along the pommel and rain guard. The hilt is wrapped in fine crimson hide.
The wise master wizard Dyrriel Dether from MettleDale of The Great Dale created Calestvae (Faithful light) in 978 before giving it to the infamous merchant Slinggak Kradar who was famous for defeated an invading army of orcs. It was thought destroyed in 980 when he was plane shifted while exploring a mountain somewhere near Glen of The Dalelands but was found by the elf Odatula Erafry later that year somehow entwined within the boughs of a gnarly oak in the Moon Wood. Prying the sword free, Odatula recognized how potent the weapon could be against lycanthropes and travelled for a while in The Marches felling the allies of Malar wherever he could find them.
Eventually, Odatula was called to Amn where he had heard rumours that a cult of Wererats had given to worshipping a demon that was imprisoned deep beneath the Cloud Peaks somewhere.
Legend tells that the blade was blessed with other hidden properties that would reveal themselves only to the worthy – a blade of legacy perhaps?
One tale told how the blade would swing quicker than the eye could perceive yet other tales told that it was a dancing blade cloaked in a wreath of sparks and electricity.
Cannons of Protection (Bracers of Armour +2)
A set of fine steel bracers complete with Remorhaz leather gauntlets and elbow couters, the metal is worked with a strange design of swirling clouds wrapped around entwined serpents each one stabbed through the head with an ornate dagger.
Crafted in 1302 by Lyincasane the Imaskari Wizard in High Imaskar (beneath Mulhorrand) inspired by a series of dreams where he was attacked by flying serpents who tore him limb from limb, he met his fate at the hands of the necromancer Syprendias in 1370 when they came to blows during a heated debate regarding the nature of undead. Syprendias’ familiar; a foul serpent of fiendish origin, devoured Lyincasane’s body.
Lyincasane was highly regarded amongst the higher echelons of High Imaskar’s nobility and when he went missing, Syprendias was accused of his murder but was quickly released following a meeting between her master and the council of elders.
Delimbyrteu (Shining moon) +2 composite shortbow
Delimbyrteu (Shining moon) is a slender shortbow set with brilliant white moonstones along the shaft which is wrapped in knotted wyvern hide.
The hated elf Ethral Ryvamaraleir from Teziir of The Dragon Coast crafted this bow in 739 and travelled far and wide using it himself to slay many humans. He met his end in 1125 at the hands of a knight he encountered along the Trade Way in Cormyr and the bow was claimed as a spoil and taken to Marsember.
It was taken in 1205 when it was stolen along with many other treasures in a daring raid by unknown thieves.
The bow turned up in 1350 when it was gifted to the rogue Caros DeVemen for his loyalty to the Shadow Thieves of Amn.
Flamebolt (+2 Adamantine Flaming Greatsword)
This sturdy and brutal looking blade is continuously wreathed in flames. The weapon is a stout dwarven claymore – a shorter, wider blade but with a two-and-a-half-handed hilt wrapped in charred red dragon hide (for the record; red dragon hide does no char easy!).
The blade is decorated with the symbol of Haela Brightaxe along the foible (a flaming great sword). The cross-guard is shaped into licking flames and the pommel is tipped with an array of ten small rubies each in the mouth of a small red dragon.
This blade was forged about 8000 years ago by the church of Moradin as a gift for the High Kaxanar Mirdane Kragakor of Gottenhall beneath the Cloud peaks in what is now Amn in the ancient dwarven realm of Xotherin.
Mirdane wielded the blade on many forays into the underdark and also the surface and hundreds of drow, stingers, duergar and other creatures fell to its bite.
As MIrdane grew older and her various injuries took their toll, she was reduced to a less active role though her ruling of the church was just as judicious. Though she was too infirm to lead the scouts of the Bloodmaidens, she was still as active as she could be in the defence of Gottenhall when the stinger and duergar invasion that brought about the end of the First Age of Shanatar, forced the dwarves out but she fell in that effort.
Thane of Gottenhall, Falgon Dolbor son of Thand of Clan Xothaerin took the blade from Mirdane’s corpse and cut his way through the wall of invaders just as the great wards were placed and the temples hidden beneath the city by Dumathoin’s will. Thane Falgon and around two hundred of his soldiers were trapped in the temples as they descended and they became trapped.
It is told (though the accuracy of what follows his questionable) that Falgon and his men were spared a slow, agonizing death by starvation by the Mordinsaman and food and water was provided to them by magic, but they would never leave their temple tomb eventually and willingly becoming undead guardians of lost Gottenhall.
Great Cloak of The Inner Face (Cloak of Resistance +3)
This delicate and elaborate great cloak is fashioned in the style preferred by Deep Imaskari and appears to be centuries old. Cut from finest velvet that has a very dark red tinge to it in certain light. The sleeves are loose and bilious, the hood is deep and supported on a frame work of chitine strands and has a built in veil of black spider lace. It is narrow at the waist and tied with a simple chain of silver with an ornate star shaped clasp at the neck.
Crafted in 1312 by Syprenedias’ Master (at the time) an Imaskari Lich called Undrel who was over a thousand years old, the cloak was meant as a gift to Undrel’s daughter, Inikrel.
Inikrel was a promising cleric of Shar who was the reason Undrel had been driven from High Imaskar (beneath Mulhorrand) for the worship of any God was frowned upon by the elders of their capital city and Undrel’s association with necromancy and the undead had made him an outcast.
One night, the Empress and her counsel had had enough of his practices and sent the Order of Artificers to kill him and locate his phylactery. They failed miserably and Undrel, Inikrel and the young Syprenedias lay them to waste before escaping.
Inikrel had suffered a mortal wound in the escape and as she died in Undrel’s arms, he promised to have her raised once they had the chance and gift her with unlife as he had.
Syprendias took her belongings, and her body and followed Undrel into the lower dark where some Drow friends of his gave them solace. Here, Undrel prepared the foul alchemy that would raise Inikrel as a lich and some of these unguents were tested on Syprendias infusing her with undead energy and rotted her flesh but she remained living balanced on the line between life and undeath.
As the weeks passed, Undrel could only think of his daughter and neglected Syprendias’ training yet still experimenting on her. She was jealous and coveted Undrel’s attentions and one night in 1319, in a fit of jealousy and while Undrel was busy readying the magic that would return his daughter to unlife, she stole his phylactery, returned to High Imaskar, threw herself at the mercy of The Empress and betrayed her master.
Undrel and his phylactery were destroyed later that day but Syprendias was given no mercy by the Empress and she was cast into the deepest cell. She languished in the dark for 50 years until a servant of Shar came to her and released her, taking her into his service and returning her belongings, including this cloak. Where her new master took her after this is unknown but Syprendias surfaced again in early 1370 looking for Drow ruins in the Cloud Peaks.
Gwairochthimae (Pegasus Wing) +2 Returning Dagger
Pegasus Wing is a heavy dagger marked with faeries at play along the blade and filigreed with mithril on the foible. The hilt is wrapped in cross bonded gold hide.
The priest Olember Steeliskir, a follower of Aerdrie, in Procampur of The Vast forged Pegasus Wing in 1067 but it was stolen by a disgraced knight Hureuph Lakicu who vanished shortly after. It was lost in 1068 when Hureuph was killed in a horse riding accident after a long war somewhere near Procampur and the dagger lay buried in the dirt until a farmer happened upon it while tilling his fields. He later sold the dagger in Procampur for a gold piece unaware of its properties.
The dagger rested on the belt of a Tamdred Rilytson, the captain of the Morning Mist, a galleon that traded upon the Dragonmere. After a bad storm, he had to sell the dagger to a shipwright in Marsember in Cormyr to pay for repairs but later conspired to steal the dagger back. This plan failed and Tamdred was hung for theft and his ship and belongings forfeit. Tamdred’s first mate ran riot through Marsember’s port in anger at his friend and employer’s execution and stabbed the shipwright to death with Pegasus Wing before fleeing the city. He tried to throw the incriminating dagger away but it kept returning to his hand and he was caught with a few of his mates and hung.
The dagger passed into the vaults of the city until around 770 when it was placed among other treasures as payment to The Klariven high house.
Osittar Klariven ventured west on a crusade with his sons into Calimshan where he met his end in 778 at the hands of a Nomad Shiek called Amudarash yn Preerad al Ambaht and he passed it to his bodyguard Marakmur yn Ishrumi el Besmeed. Marakmur was sent on a quest by Amudarash to locate a sage in the north where he met Adrenian the Ranger in 779. Adrenian helped Marakmur find the sage and during an ambush on the road to Athkatla later that year, Adrenian saved Marakmur’s life. Marakumur gifted the dagger to him in gratitude.
Heldustad’s Pack (Heward’s Handy Haversack)
A backpack that appears to be well made, well used, and quite ordinary. It is constructed of finely tanned leather, and the straps have brass hardware and buckles engraved with musical notes and dancing elven maidens.
It has two side pouches, each of which appears large enough to hold about a quart of material. In fact, each is like a bag of holding and can actually hold material of as much as 2 cubic feet in volume or 20 pounds in weight. The large central portion of the pack can contain up to 8 cubic feet or 80 pounds of material. Even when so filled, the backpack always weighs only 5 pounds.
The name Heward was given to this bag in 1088DR after a bard called Heldustad claimed to have travelled to a parallel dimension or plane very similar to Aber Toril but with its own pantheon. The deities there were very similar but one in particular; The god of bards and music named Heward, caught Heldustad’s attention and he spent many years serving the temple whilst looking for a way back.
Once he had located a cleric powerful and wise enough to send him back, he returned with this bag (and many other trinkets) and the secret of its construction, which he passed to the wizards he had befriended on Aber Toril who were interested in his journey.
Heldustad died a happy old man in 1120DR and the bag was passed to his half elven son; Calemor of Amn, also a bard (though not a very good one by all accounts) who travelled the south for many years last being seen in the Selunite colony of Minsor Vale in Amn.
While such storage is useful enough, the pack has an even greater power in addition. When the wearer reaches into it for a specific item, that item is always on top. Thus, no digging around and fumbling is ever necessary to find what a haversack contains. Retrieving any specific item from a haversack is a move action, but it does not provoke the attacks of opportunity that retrieving a stored item usually does.
Imbradaj Jiham Dabrad (Oasis in the trees) +3 Longsword
An ancient Amnian Kaskara straight bladed sword no longer forged by any known weaponsmiths, this blade dates back over 900 years.
The blade of the kaskara was usually about a yard long, double edged and with a spatulate tip.
Imbradaj Jiham Dabrad (Oasis in the trees) is a gleaming weapon inlaid with lightning blasts set with star rose quartz stones on the rain guard. The hilt is wrapped in tightly bonded red leather.
This kaskara has lain in dust since around 400DR at a watch tower on the Amnian border somewhere in the Cloud Peaks.
The evil necromancer Aencala Sagearran from somewhere in Amn enchanted the blade in 700 commissioned by the Calishite knight Kimran yn Dumara el Sumaal who wielded it in many wars. It was claimed in 311DR when he was killed by a beholder while performing some secret task for an unknown lord somewhere near The Cloud Peaks.
His belongings were recovered by a passing patrol but what became of the soldiers that recovered Imbradaj is lost to history.
Lenses of Denthen Glasscrop
Delicate thin wire spectacles hold fragile clear lenses that cover the eyes.
The High Xothor of Dugmaren Brightmantle, Denthen Glasscrop crafted these spectacles over 9000 years ago in the hidden temple of Dugmaren that stood in the Plaza of The Mordinsaman in lost Gottenhall far beneath the Cloud Peaks of what is now Amn.
Denthen lead the temple in the construction of many devices and items that would later be used to defend the ruins of Xotherin from tomb robbers and thieves.
She was also responsible for scribing many scrolls in a project where divine spells were converted for use by arcanists. Such was her ability and status within the church and among the dwarven pantheon that she was even able to convert many arcane spells that were denied to divine spell casters. Her life work was devoted to the assembling of a great library of magical scrolls that would eventually hope to be the foundation stone to bringing arcane and divine casters closer together into a unified discipline of magic. This work was never completed as The Spawn Wars and the gradual retreat of the Dwarves of Xotherin as each of the 8 kingdoms fell, lead to the forced abandonment of Gottenhall. Much of her research was taken by the retreating dwarves and Denthen (along with many of the other priests of the ten Mordinsaman) were lost in the retreat as the city was sealed and the temples hidden from the unworthy.
It is rumoured that Karsus visited the ruins 7000 millennia later and some of her work was the basis for his Avatar spell that ultimately caused the fall of Netheril in -339DR.
These lenses were created to help Denthen in her ambitious project and were left behind in the chaos that followed. The glasses were never named by Denthen, she never saw them as important enough, but a name was later given to them by Azlar; a priest of Dumathoin, who found them while investigating the ruins of Gottenhall in 1375DR.
The glasses allow the continuous use of read magic and detect magic when worn.
Purple Dragon Ring
A purple dragon ring is a brass ring inscribed with the purple dragon symbol of the Obarskyr royal family of Cormyr, and they are usually worn by the Purple Dragon Knights to protect the royal family from harm. By 1372 DR it has been reported that over 4000 of these rings had been made.
If this ring is worn on the same hand as a commander's ring, they are treated as one ring.
The ring has the ability to produce a magical light source up to 40' (12m) away. This light source will last up to about 10 minutes.
The ring also can be activated to detect poison in gases, liquids and solids that it comes into contact with. It glows a golden-green colour if poison is present.
While activated, it will also glow bright blue if placed in contact with anything "enchanted".
These rings have been reported as being around 2000 gold pieces each. Other reports record their value at around 4000 gold pieces.
This particular ring was traded to the bard Calemor of Amn by a rogue and merchant of trinkets called Kurwood of Athkatla who ran a stall in Waukeen’s Promenade at the time selling trinkets gathered from all over the realms.
It is reported that Kurwood gave it to Calemor in 1374 after he heard a rumour that the original owner of the ring – a knight called Bramblyn Hollowfast, had arrived in Amn looking for it.
How Kurwood came to be in possession of the knight’s ring is unknown but Kurwood was known to have been very well travelled.
Shimraen (Auran for Sky Messenger) +2 Long bow (frosting)
Shimraen is a graceful bow set with red spinel stones along the grip and filigreed with silver along its length. The haft is wrapped in split blue leather. It has a cold breeze emanating from it that seems to ruffle clothes and hair when being used.
The wizard Kenrale Fyrag from The Vast crafted Shimraen in 1026 but it fell into the hands of the great warrior Fensele Threthae of Aurl who killed Kenrale and went on to wield the bow on many adventures believing the weapon was his by right as a servant of the mistress of cold.
It was claimed in 1030 when he was killed in a terrible dungeon while investigating a fire cult somewhere near Baldur’s Gate.
It is thought that his remains were destroyed by powerful elemental fire yet the bow refused to burn.
From here it Shimraen was taken south towards Chult where the followers of the fire cult were to cast the bow into a volcano as offering to their god (thought to be Kossuth but this is just a guess) and destroy this figt of Auril but something happened to the pilgrims and the bow lay at the bottom of a frozen lake for years until found in 1158DR by fishermen from Riatavin in Tethyr when it was washed up (still encased in ice) on the banks of the River Ith.
They took it to the priest of the temple of Selune in Riatavin who kept it in their vaults until the moonmistress there left to set up the Selunite colony of Minsor Vale in Amn and took the bow with her in case she needed to sell it to raise coin for her endeavour.
It is thought that it was bought from the temple at Minsor by a traveller passing through but no record exists of this exchange.
Shroud of Bezantur (+1 Cloak of Protection)
This cloak is a billowing red coat of red cotton with a red and silver silken lining. The robe has deep pockets on its interior and is decorated with silver and crimson thaumaturgy lines and symbols along the hem and cuffs. The hood is deep and can be drawn by a silver chord.
The history of this item is short, one of the many items fashioned by the Red Wizards of Thay for their various nefarious needs. This particular cloak was created in 1370 alongside a matching set of bracers of armour, by the promising Wizard Latah Gar, an evoker and slaver from Bezantur. He travelled to far away Amn to serve under his master; Fenarane The Clean, a Red Wizard stationed in Athkatla in 1372. His work here did not last long as he was sent on an expedition into the Cloud Peak mountains in early 1375 in search of an ancient ruin.
Siasthia (Broken oath) +2 shortsword of domineering
Siasthia is a frightening sword with a dark grey blade that refuses to reflect the light. It is cut with dancing dragons and set with blue quartz stones across the cross guard and filigreed with gold along the foible and blade that also acts as a channel for poisons. The hilt is wrapped in braided lizard scale.
The noble artificer Odraam yr Vampet el Rumizmal from Calimshan smithed Siasthia in 572 commissioned by the great warrior Gohuur yn Charej el Dhuran (who was also his lover).
She had promised to return to Odraam and make this her last adventure. This sword was to be his gift to her and its appearance then was very different; gold and silver that would blind with its brilliance when it caught the sun.
However, they were destined never to be reunited as she vanished while exploring a far off continent in 617 when she was lost in a great storm.
Heartbroken, he cursed Umberlee and Valkur for taking his wife and hurled the sword into the ocean in the hope of piercing either of their hearts.
Of course, this never happened and Odraam died of heartbreak a few years later.
What happened to the sword during the next few centuries is unknown but it surfaced again in 1365 in the hands of Caros DeVemen. Caros had become a shadowdancer and on his first foray into the plane of shadow he was thought dead as he failed to return for many months. When he did return, he had acquired a shadow servant and Siasthia. The sword was now tainted with darkness and its bite caused fear in those of weak will as if touched by the shadows themselves while fighting the wielder of Siasthia.
Sleeves of The Green Stalker (Lesser Bracers of Archery)
These light yet sturdy bracers of leather are trimmed in wolf fur that has been dyed green and are branded about with swirling leaves and vines intertwined around an arrow – the symbol of Solonor, elven god of archery.
The druid Zhadush yr Surutri al Prasrej from Athkatla of Amn crafted the Sleeves in 767 and were passed into the hands of the good Ranger Windhaas Grathris who carried them all over Faerun. They was lost in 797 when Windhaas was mortally wounded by a powerful curse while hunting monsters somewhere near Baldur's Gate of The Western Heartlands.
They turned up again when The half elf Odatula Erafry from Selgaunt of Sembia found them in the belly of a foul Otyugh in 981. They were again thought lost in 993 when Odatula was lost in a trap while investigating a dark cult in the Cloud Peaks of Amn.
The Eye of Xorlarrin (Crystal Ball)
A perfectly spherical and clear ball about ten inches in diameter, it comes with an ornate desk stand of twisted iron and is wrapped in a deep purple spider silk bag that is stitched with giant spider web strands.
Syprenedias the Imaskari wizard came across this crystal ball in 1372 while digging through the ruins of Maermydria in the North Dark looking for her coverted information on the creation of Chitine.
The ball was crafted by the Drow wizard Ghaunradek who was a servant of the matron Mother Zeerith of house Xorlarrin in Menzoberranzan. What happened to Ghaunradek and why he was in Maermydria is unknown but it is thought he was killed during the War of The Spider Queen.
The history of House Xorlarrin is imprinted into the eye and now and then shimmering spiders can be seen within the glass along with images from the very Houses history (the eye is not viewing the house, these images have gathered in the eye from over many years of history).
These images include the fabled Spell Tower and its surroundings.
The house was famous for its wizards, even giving the males status near to the females. Matron Mother Zeerith would even listen to the men, as she relied more on advisors than other matriarchs. The wizards had more arcane power than any other house, and those who had no skill would not survive childhood. Such talentless males were used as sacrifices. In 1361 DR, there were seven masters of Sorcery from House Xorlarrin and Ghaunderek was among them.
The cautious nobles would dress in loose clothing and masks so that not even their gender, much less their individual identities, could be seen.
By 1372 DR, House Xorlarrin had become the fifth House of Menzoberranzan.
The Four Confession Rings (+2 Rings of Protection)
These rings are formed of delicate silver with intricate engraving of interlocking swirls and loops. The rings are open ended and thick across the knuckle covering almost the whole finger and shaped into a star with ten wavy points. The ring does not meet around the back, the end of the loops falling short and long of each other.
The Imaskari necromancer Syprendias had ten apprentices given to her by her master in early 1371 when she was sent to recover ancient alchemical tomes from drow ruins hidden beneath the Cloud Peaks. The rings were forged for the four apprentices that survived a series of tests that Syprendias used to weed out the weaker of the ten.
The tests are known amongst Imaskari wizards as The Confessions and involve challenges drawn from the eight schools of magic.
Silver ring set with obsidian engraved with entwined leaves and vines.
The master wizard Athaornath Veran from Wheloon of Cormyr smithed Adrenian’s CIrcle in 544 as a reward for the legendary adventurer Aranorin Saertirae (Silver-horizon) who performed great deeds across Faerun. It was lost in 591 when Aranorin was lost at sea after exploring a vast dungeon somewhere near Leuthilspar of Evermeet. The ring turned up on the finger of an aquatic elf somewhere near Athkatla in 760 and passed into the keeping of a druidic circle. The druids then passed the ring to Galdenon the Ranger who passed it to his son Adrenian in 788.
Arraldris (Fury’s Heart ) +1 Flaming Long Sword
Fury’s Heart is a vicious weapon set with amethyst stones on the rain guard and filigreed with silver along the foible. The hilt is wrapped in cracked basilisk leather. When swung, a trail of smoke emanates from the blade in a black arc.
A high priest of Kossuth; Pycero Wynbracs from Hlammach of Impiltur smithed Fury’s Heart in 521 as a reward for a warrior named Oldim Dularran who set out to slay a Great Ice Worm known as Hallacref. Something happened however, and Oldim vanished. Eventually, Pycero tacked Oldim to the underdark where he found that Oldim had ran afoul of a drow necromancer called Xudra Wehlnet (Weaver-grace The Dark-host). A great battle ensued but Oldim had already heard Xudra’s whispered enchantments or words and had descended into great evil and Pycero was killed.
A few years later Oldim was betrayed and killed by his master and the blade became a part of Xudra’s horde. In 545 Xudra was plane shifted while recovering a stolen treasure somewhere near Hlammach of Impiltur.
Adrenian the Ranger came upon the sword in 789 when investigating the cause of a forest fire just south ofthe Wealdath wood. In an underground cavern flooded with lava in the heart of the wood, he found Arraldris, its flame and smoke being the cause of the fires. Several salamanders protected the blade but Adrenian prevailed and recovered the sword.
Ayanette’s Love Charm (Amulet of Natural Armour +2)
This amulet hangs on a delicate silver chain and is a silver pendant with a rough uncut clear crustal set into its top where the chain meets the charm. The silver metal is engraved with two entwined unicorns on one side and the symbol of Lurue (a unicorn’s head) on the other.
Ayanette was a drow ranger from Menzoberranzan who had turned from evil and embraced the surface world and worship of Luru. She also took a human name (her original name is lost).
Over several decades between 1300 and 1363, she roamed the Sword Coast and after experiencing others’ intolerance of her, settled in solitude in The Wealdath where she served the nature gods and druids of that place.
The amulet was created for her by the wild elf druid Galmrane in 1333 as a gift of love, the two were married later that year and had a daughter who they named Luru in honor of the unicorn goddess.
In 1370, wild elves had tracked Galmrane to their home and were shocked to find him married to a sworn enemy and father to a half drow.
Their bigotry lead to a battle where they tried to take Ayanette and Luru away but in the fight, they were both struck a mortal wound and Galmrane could only watch as they died and he was dragged off to face his elders for his “crime”.
What he did not see was that The Unicorn Goddess spared Ayanette and Luru by transforming them into unicorns – one of purest white, the other of darkest black. It is said that mother and daughter still roam the Wealdath today looking for Glamrane.
What became of the druid is unknown but his amulet sank deep into the earth and was claimed by the forest eventually finding its way into the Underdark where it was found in the lair of a Boggle by Syprendias the Imaskari Necromancer.
Bracers of Bezantur (+1 Bracers of Armour)
These bracers are forged of thin steel and silver plated. They carry various lines of thaumaturgy about its cuffs and is set with red enamel marking them as Thayan in origin.
The history of this item is short, one of the many items fashioned by the Red Wizards of Thay for their various nefarious needs. These particular bracers were created in 1370 alongside a matching cloak, by the promising Wizard Latah Gar, an evoker and slaver from Bezantur. He travelled to far away Amn to serve under his master; Fenarane The Clean, a Red Wizard stationed in Athkatla in 1372. His work here did not last long as he was sent on an expedition into the Cloud Peak Mountains in early 1375 in search of an ancient ruin.
Calestvae (Faithful Light) +2 Silver Short Sword
Calestvae (Faithful light) is a slender silver sword set with king's tears stones on either end of the cross guard and filigreed with mithril along the pommel and rain guard. The hilt is wrapped in fine crimson hide.
The wise master wizard Dyrriel Dether from MettleDale of The Great Dale created Calestvae (Faithful light) in 978 before giving it to the infamous merchant Slinggak Kradar who was famous for defeated an invading army of orcs. It was thought destroyed in 980 when he was plane shifted while exploring a mountain somewhere near Glen of The Dalelands but was found by the elf Odatula Erafry later that year somehow entwined within the boughs of a gnarly oak in the Moon Wood. Prying the sword free, Odatula recognized how potent the weapon could be against lycanthropes and travelled for a while in The Marches felling the allies of Malar wherever he could find them.
Eventually, Odatula was called to Amn where he had heard rumours that a cult of Wererats had given to worshipping a demon that was imprisoned deep beneath the Cloud Peaks somewhere.
Legend tells that the blade was blessed with other hidden properties that would reveal themselves only to the worthy – a blade of legacy perhaps?
One tale told how the blade would swing quicker than the eye could perceive yet other tales told that it was a dancing blade cloaked in a wreath of sparks and electricity.
Cannons of Protection (Bracers of Armour +2)
A set of fine steel bracers complete with Remorhaz leather gauntlets and elbow couters, the metal is worked with a strange design of swirling clouds wrapped around entwined serpents each one stabbed through the head with an ornate dagger.
Crafted in 1302 by Lyincasane the Imaskari Wizard in High Imaskar (beneath Mulhorrand) inspired by a series of dreams where he was attacked by flying serpents who tore him limb from limb, he met his fate at the hands of the necromancer Syprendias in 1370 when they came to blows during a heated debate regarding the nature of undead. Syprendias’ familiar; a foul serpent of fiendish origin, devoured Lyincasane’s body.
Lyincasane was highly regarded amongst the higher echelons of High Imaskar’s nobility and when he went missing, Syprendias was accused of his murder but was quickly released following a meeting between her master and the council of elders.
Delimbyrteu (Shining moon) +2 composite shortbow
Delimbyrteu (Shining moon) is a slender shortbow set with brilliant white moonstones along the shaft which is wrapped in knotted wyvern hide.
The hated elf Ethral Ryvamaraleir from Teziir of The Dragon Coast crafted this bow in 739 and travelled far and wide using it himself to slay many humans. He met his end in 1125 at the hands of a knight he encountered along the Trade Way in Cormyr and the bow was claimed as a spoil and taken to Marsember.
It was taken in 1205 when it was stolen along with many other treasures in a daring raid by unknown thieves.
The bow turned up in 1350 when it was gifted to the rogue Caros DeVemen for his loyalty to the Shadow Thieves of Amn.
Flamebolt (+2 Adamantine Flaming Greatsword)
This sturdy and brutal looking blade is continuously wreathed in flames. The weapon is a stout dwarven claymore – a shorter, wider blade but with a two-and-a-half-handed hilt wrapped in charred red dragon hide (for the record; red dragon hide does no char easy!).
The blade is decorated with the symbol of Haela Brightaxe along the foible (a flaming great sword). The cross-guard is shaped into licking flames and the pommel is tipped with an array of ten small rubies each in the mouth of a small red dragon.
This blade was forged about 8000 years ago by the church of Moradin as a gift for the High Kaxanar Mirdane Kragakor of Gottenhall beneath the Cloud peaks in what is now Amn in the ancient dwarven realm of Xotherin.
Mirdane wielded the blade on many forays into the underdark and also the surface and hundreds of drow, stingers, duergar and other creatures fell to its bite.
As MIrdane grew older and her various injuries took their toll, she was reduced to a less active role though her ruling of the church was just as judicious. Though she was too infirm to lead the scouts of the Bloodmaidens, she was still as active as she could be in the defence of Gottenhall when the stinger and duergar invasion that brought about the end of the First Age of Shanatar, forced the dwarves out but she fell in that effort.
Thane of Gottenhall, Falgon Dolbor son of Thand of Clan Xothaerin took the blade from Mirdane’s corpse and cut his way through the wall of invaders just as the great wards were placed and the temples hidden beneath the city by Dumathoin’s will. Thane Falgon and around two hundred of his soldiers were trapped in the temples as they descended and they became trapped.
It is told (though the accuracy of what follows his questionable) that Falgon and his men were spared a slow, agonizing death by starvation by the Mordinsaman and food and water was provided to them by magic, but they would never leave their temple tomb eventually and willingly becoming undead guardians of lost Gottenhall.
Great Cloak of The Inner Face (Cloak of Resistance +3)
This delicate and elaborate great cloak is fashioned in the style preferred by Deep Imaskari and appears to be centuries old. Cut from finest velvet that has a very dark red tinge to it in certain light. The sleeves are loose and bilious, the hood is deep and supported on a frame work of chitine strands and has a built in veil of black spider lace. It is narrow at the waist and tied with a simple chain of silver with an ornate star shaped clasp at the neck.
Crafted in 1312 by Syprenedias’ Master (at the time) an Imaskari Lich called Undrel who was over a thousand years old, the cloak was meant as a gift to Undrel’s daughter, Inikrel.
Inikrel was a promising cleric of Shar who was the reason Undrel had been driven from High Imaskar (beneath Mulhorrand) for the worship of any God was frowned upon by the elders of their capital city and Undrel’s association with necromancy and the undead had made him an outcast.
One night, the Empress and her counsel had had enough of his practices and sent the Order of Artificers to kill him and locate his phylactery. They failed miserably and Undrel, Inikrel and the young Syprenedias lay them to waste before escaping.
Inikrel had suffered a mortal wound in the escape and as she died in Undrel’s arms, he promised to have her raised once they had the chance and gift her with unlife as he had.
Syprendias took her belongings, and her body and followed Undrel into the lower dark where some Drow friends of his gave them solace. Here, Undrel prepared the foul alchemy that would raise Inikrel as a lich and some of these unguents were tested on Syprendias infusing her with undead energy and rotted her flesh but she remained living balanced on the line between life and undeath.
As the weeks passed, Undrel could only think of his daughter and neglected Syprendias’ training yet still experimenting on her. She was jealous and coveted Undrel’s attentions and one night in 1319, in a fit of jealousy and while Undrel was busy readying the magic that would return his daughter to unlife, she stole his phylactery, returned to High Imaskar, threw herself at the mercy of The Empress and betrayed her master.
Undrel and his phylactery were destroyed later that day but Syprendias was given no mercy by the Empress and she was cast into the deepest cell. She languished in the dark for 50 years until a servant of Shar came to her and released her, taking her into his service and returning her belongings, including this cloak. Where her new master took her after this is unknown but Syprendias surfaced again in early 1370 looking for Drow ruins in the Cloud Peaks.
Gwairochthimae (Pegasus Wing) +2 Returning Dagger
Pegasus Wing is a heavy dagger marked with faeries at play along the blade and filigreed with mithril on the foible. The hilt is wrapped in cross bonded gold hide.
The priest Olember Steeliskir, a follower of Aerdrie, in Procampur of The Vast forged Pegasus Wing in 1067 but it was stolen by a disgraced knight Hureuph Lakicu who vanished shortly after. It was lost in 1068 when Hureuph was killed in a horse riding accident after a long war somewhere near Procampur and the dagger lay buried in the dirt until a farmer happened upon it while tilling his fields. He later sold the dagger in Procampur for a gold piece unaware of its properties.
The dagger rested on the belt of a Tamdred Rilytson, the captain of the Morning Mist, a galleon that traded upon the Dragonmere. After a bad storm, he had to sell the dagger to a shipwright in Marsember in Cormyr to pay for repairs but later conspired to steal the dagger back. This plan failed and Tamdred was hung for theft and his ship and belongings forfeit. Tamdred’s first mate ran riot through Marsember’s port in anger at his friend and employer’s execution and stabbed the shipwright to death with Pegasus Wing before fleeing the city. He tried to throw the incriminating dagger away but it kept returning to his hand and he was caught with a few of his mates and hung.
The dagger passed into the vaults of the city until around 770 when it was placed among other treasures as payment to The Klariven high house.
Osittar Klariven ventured west on a crusade with his sons into Calimshan where he met his end in 778 at the hands of a Nomad Shiek called Amudarash yn Preerad al Ambaht and he passed it to his bodyguard Marakmur yn Ishrumi el Besmeed. Marakmur was sent on a quest by Amudarash to locate a sage in the north where he met Adrenian the Ranger in 779. Adrenian helped Marakmur find the sage and during an ambush on the road to Athkatla later that year, Adrenian saved Marakmur’s life. Marakumur gifted the dagger to him in gratitude.
Heldustad’s Pack (Heward’s Handy Haversack)
A backpack that appears to be well made, well used, and quite ordinary. It is constructed of finely tanned leather, and the straps have brass hardware and buckles engraved with musical notes and dancing elven maidens.
It has two side pouches, each of which appears large enough to hold about a quart of material. In fact, each is like a bag of holding and can actually hold material of as much as 2 cubic feet in volume or 20 pounds in weight. The large central portion of the pack can contain up to 8 cubic feet or 80 pounds of material. Even when so filled, the backpack always weighs only 5 pounds.
The name Heward was given to this bag in 1088DR after a bard called Heldustad claimed to have travelled to a parallel dimension or plane very similar to Aber Toril but with its own pantheon. The deities there were very similar but one in particular; The god of bards and music named Heward, caught Heldustad’s attention and he spent many years serving the temple whilst looking for a way back.
Once he had located a cleric powerful and wise enough to send him back, he returned with this bag (and many other trinkets) and the secret of its construction, which he passed to the wizards he had befriended on Aber Toril who were interested in his journey.
Heldustad died a happy old man in 1120DR and the bag was passed to his half elven son; Calemor of Amn, also a bard (though not a very good one by all accounts) who travelled the south for many years last being seen in the Selunite colony of Minsor Vale in Amn.
While such storage is useful enough, the pack has an even greater power in addition. When the wearer reaches into it for a specific item, that item is always on top. Thus, no digging around and fumbling is ever necessary to find what a haversack contains. Retrieving any specific item from a haversack is a move action, but it does not provoke the attacks of opportunity that retrieving a stored item usually does.
Imbradaj Jiham Dabrad (Oasis in the trees) +3 Longsword
An ancient Amnian Kaskara straight bladed sword no longer forged by any known weaponsmiths, this blade dates back over 900 years.
The blade of the kaskara was usually about a yard long, double edged and with a spatulate tip.
Imbradaj Jiham Dabrad (Oasis in the trees) is a gleaming weapon inlaid with lightning blasts set with star rose quartz stones on the rain guard. The hilt is wrapped in tightly bonded red leather.
This kaskara has lain in dust since around 400DR at a watch tower on the Amnian border somewhere in the Cloud Peaks.
The evil necromancer Aencala Sagearran from somewhere in Amn enchanted the blade in 700 commissioned by the Calishite knight Kimran yn Dumara el Sumaal who wielded it in many wars. It was claimed in 311DR when he was killed by a beholder while performing some secret task for an unknown lord somewhere near The Cloud Peaks.
His belongings were recovered by a passing patrol but what became of the soldiers that recovered Imbradaj is lost to history.
Lenses of Denthen Glasscrop
Delicate thin wire spectacles hold fragile clear lenses that cover the eyes.
The High Xothor of Dugmaren Brightmantle, Denthen Glasscrop crafted these spectacles over 9000 years ago in the hidden temple of Dugmaren that stood in the Plaza of The Mordinsaman in lost Gottenhall far beneath the Cloud Peaks of what is now Amn.
Denthen lead the temple in the construction of many devices and items that would later be used to defend the ruins of Xotherin from tomb robbers and thieves.
She was also responsible for scribing many scrolls in a project where divine spells were converted for use by arcanists. Such was her ability and status within the church and among the dwarven pantheon that she was even able to convert many arcane spells that were denied to divine spell casters. Her life work was devoted to the assembling of a great library of magical scrolls that would eventually hope to be the foundation stone to bringing arcane and divine casters closer together into a unified discipline of magic. This work was never completed as The Spawn Wars and the gradual retreat of the Dwarves of Xotherin as each of the 8 kingdoms fell, lead to the forced abandonment of Gottenhall. Much of her research was taken by the retreating dwarves and Denthen (along with many of the other priests of the ten Mordinsaman) were lost in the retreat as the city was sealed and the temples hidden from the unworthy.
It is rumoured that Karsus visited the ruins 7000 millennia later and some of her work was the basis for his Avatar spell that ultimately caused the fall of Netheril in -339DR.
These lenses were created to help Denthen in her ambitious project and were left behind in the chaos that followed. The glasses were never named by Denthen, she never saw them as important enough, but a name was later given to them by Azlar; a priest of Dumathoin, who found them while investigating the ruins of Gottenhall in 1375DR.
The glasses allow the continuous use of read magic and detect magic when worn.
Purple Dragon Ring
A purple dragon ring is a brass ring inscribed with the purple dragon symbol of the Obarskyr royal family of Cormyr, and they are usually worn by the Purple Dragon Knights to protect the royal family from harm. By 1372 DR it has been reported that over 4000 of these rings had been made.
If this ring is worn on the same hand as a commander's ring, they are treated as one ring.
The ring has the ability to produce a magical light source up to 40' (12m) away. This light source will last up to about 10 minutes.
The ring also can be activated to detect poison in gases, liquids and solids that it comes into contact with. It glows a golden-green colour if poison is present.
While activated, it will also glow bright blue if placed in contact with anything "enchanted".
These rings have been reported as being around 2000 gold pieces each. Other reports record their value at around 4000 gold pieces.
This particular ring was traded to the bard Calemor of Amn by a rogue and merchant of trinkets called Kurwood of Athkatla who ran a stall in Waukeen’s Promenade at the time selling trinkets gathered from all over the realms.
It is reported that Kurwood gave it to Calemor in 1374 after he heard a rumour that the original owner of the ring – a knight called Bramblyn Hollowfast, had arrived in Amn looking for it.
How Kurwood came to be in possession of the knight’s ring is unknown but Kurwood was known to have been very well travelled.
Shimraen (Auran for Sky Messenger) +2 Long bow (frosting)
Shimraen is a graceful bow set with red spinel stones along the grip and filigreed with silver along its length. The haft is wrapped in split blue leather. It has a cold breeze emanating from it that seems to ruffle clothes and hair when being used.
The wizard Kenrale Fyrag from The Vast crafted Shimraen in 1026 but it fell into the hands of the great warrior Fensele Threthae of Aurl who killed Kenrale and went on to wield the bow on many adventures believing the weapon was his by right as a servant of the mistress of cold.
It was claimed in 1030 when he was killed in a terrible dungeon while investigating a fire cult somewhere near Baldur’s Gate.
It is thought that his remains were destroyed by powerful elemental fire yet the bow refused to burn.
From here it Shimraen was taken south towards Chult where the followers of the fire cult were to cast the bow into a volcano as offering to their god (thought to be Kossuth but this is just a guess) and destroy this figt of Auril but something happened to the pilgrims and the bow lay at the bottom of a frozen lake for years until found in 1158DR by fishermen from Riatavin in Tethyr when it was washed up (still encased in ice) on the banks of the River Ith.
They took it to the priest of the temple of Selune in Riatavin who kept it in their vaults until the moonmistress there left to set up the Selunite colony of Minsor Vale in Amn and took the bow with her in case she needed to sell it to raise coin for her endeavour.
It is thought that it was bought from the temple at Minsor by a traveller passing through but no record exists of this exchange.
Shroud of Bezantur (+1 Cloak of Protection)
This cloak is a billowing red coat of red cotton with a red and silver silken lining. The robe has deep pockets on its interior and is decorated with silver and crimson thaumaturgy lines and symbols along the hem and cuffs. The hood is deep and can be drawn by a silver chord.
The history of this item is short, one of the many items fashioned by the Red Wizards of Thay for their various nefarious needs. This particular cloak was created in 1370 alongside a matching set of bracers of armour, by the promising Wizard Latah Gar, an evoker and slaver from Bezantur. He travelled to far away Amn to serve under his master; Fenarane The Clean, a Red Wizard stationed in Athkatla in 1372. His work here did not last long as he was sent on an expedition into the Cloud Peak mountains in early 1375 in search of an ancient ruin.
Siasthia (Broken oath) +2 shortsword of domineering
Siasthia is a frightening sword with a dark grey blade that refuses to reflect the light. It is cut with dancing dragons and set with blue quartz stones across the cross guard and filigreed with gold along the foible and blade that also acts as a channel for poisons. The hilt is wrapped in braided lizard scale.
The noble artificer Odraam yr Vampet el Rumizmal from Calimshan smithed Siasthia in 572 commissioned by the great warrior Gohuur yn Charej el Dhuran (who was also his lover).
She had promised to return to Odraam and make this her last adventure. This sword was to be his gift to her and its appearance then was very different; gold and silver that would blind with its brilliance when it caught the sun.
However, they were destined never to be reunited as she vanished while exploring a far off continent in 617 when she was lost in a great storm.
Heartbroken, he cursed Umberlee and Valkur for taking his wife and hurled the sword into the ocean in the hope of piercing either of their hearts.
Of course, this never happened and Odraam died of heartbreak a few years later.
What happened to the sword during the next few centuries is unknown but it surfaced again in 1365 in the hands of Caros DeVemen. Caros had become a shadowdancer and on his first foray into the plane of shadow he was thought dead as he failed to return for many months. When he did return, he had acquired a shadow servant and Siasthia. The sword was now tainted with darkness and its bite caused fear in those of weak will as if touched by the shadows themselves while fighting the wielder of Siasthia.
Sleeves of The Green Stalker (Lesser Bracers of Archery)
These light yet sturdy bracers of leather are trimmed in wolf fur that has been dyed green and are branded about with swirling leaves and vines intertwined around an arrow – the symbol of Solonor, elven god of archery.
The druid Zhadush yr Surutri al Prasrej from Athkatla of Amn crafted the Sleeves in 767 and were passed into the hands of the good Ranger Windhaas Grathris who carried them all over Faerun. They was lost in 797 when Windhaas was mortally wounded by a powerful curse while hunting monsters somewhere near Baldur's Gate of The Western Heartlands.
They turned up again when The half elf Odatula Erafry from Selgaunt of Sembia found them in the belly of a foul Otyugh in 981. They were again thought lost in 993 when Odatula was lost in a trap while investigating a dark cult in the Cloud Peaks of Amn.
The Eye of Xorlarrin (Crystal Ball)
A perfectly spherical and clear ball about ten inches in diameter, it comes with an ornate desk stand of twisted iron and is wrapped in a deep purple spider silk bag that is stitched with giant spider web strands.
Syprenedias the Imaskari wizard came across this crystal ball in 1372 while digging through the ruins of Maermydria in the North Dark looking for her coverted information on the creation of Chitine.
The ball was crafted by the Drow wizard Ghaunradek who was a servant of the matron Mother Zeerith of house Xorlarrin in Menzoberranzan. What happened to Ghaunradek and why he was in Maermydria is unknown but it is thought he was killed during the War of The Spider Queen.
The history of House Xorlarrin is imprinted into the eye and now and then shimmering spiders can be seen within the glass along with images from the very Houses history (the eye is not viewing the house, these images have gathered in the eye from over many years of history).
These images include the fabled Spell Tower and its surroundings.
The house was famous for its wizards, even giving the males status near to the females. Matron Mother Zeerith would even listen to the men, as she relied more on advisors than other matriarchs. The wizards had more arcane power than any other house, and those who had no skill would not survive childhood. Such talentless males were used as sacrifices. In 1361 DR, there were seven masters of Sorcery from House Xorlarrin and Ghaunderek was among them.
The cautious nobles would dress in loose clothing and masks so that not even their gender, much less their individual identities, could be seen.
By 1372 DR, House Xorlarrin had become the fifth House of Menzoberranzan.
The Four Confession Rings (+2 Rings of Protection)
These rings are formed of delicate silver with intricate engraving of interlocking swirls and loops. The rings are open ended and thick across the knuckle covering almost the whole finger and shaped into a star with ten wavy points. The ring does not meet around the back, the end of the loops falling short and long of each other.
The Imaskari necromancer Syprendias had ten apprentices given to her by her master in early 1371 when she was sent to recover ancient alchemical tomes from drow ruins hidden beneath the Cloud Peaks. The rings were forged for the four apprentices that survived a series of tests that Syprendias used to weed out the weaker of the ten.
The tests are known amongst Imaskari wizards as The Confessions and involve challenges drawn from the eight schools of magic.