| Chapter 8: Psionic Items |
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By their very nature, psionic items tend to be unique creations with their own personalities and goals. The following devices are described to show what is possible with psionically empowered items.
Periapt of Tierna[]
- Discipline: Psychometabolism
- Sciences: Complete healing (14)
- Devotions: Body control (10), cell adjustment (11), displacement (11), mind over body (15)
- Intelligence: 15
- Alignment: Lawful Good
- PSPs: 44
- Ego: 11
The Periapt of Tierna is a pale green gemstone with a white star in its center. It was created about 200 years ago by a seeress of Raam named Tierna. Tierna wandered widely throughout the Tyr region and believed in aiding any person who needed her help. She created the Periapt as a gift for her apprentice Relia, who was unfortunately killed in the desert by raiders soon after leaving Tierna's tutelage. Since that time, the gem has passed from hand to hand across the Tablelands.
The Periapt can speak, but only does so if someone nearby is suffering and its owner does not know of its healing abilities. It grieves for Relia and has been saddened by the violence that surrounds it. Most of its owners have been savage bandits or marauders, and the Periapt wants to be placed in the hands of a healer to perform its original mission.
Red Crystal of Tyr[]
- Discipline: Clairsentience
- Sciences: Clairvoyance (13), precognition (12), spirit lore (14)
- Devotions: Predestination (14), see ethereal (12), see magic (14), spirit sense (14)
- Intelligence: 17
- Alignment: Lawful Evil
- PSPs: 78
- Ego: 17
The Red Crystal of Tyr is a large, jagged shard of unidentified stone, about the size of a sword hilt. Its facets are razor-sharp and can easily injure a careless handler. The crystal is circled by two bands of copper and suspended from a copper chain. Its creator is not known, but it is suspected that Kalak the sorcerer-king may have created it about three King's Ages ago.
The Red Crystal is a vicious thing with a sarcastic, mocking manner. It urges its possessor to do whatever it takes to amass power. It provides its bearer with remarkably accurate knowl- edge of the future, but delights in showing possible failures and death to its unfortunate owner. The Crystal attempts to master any who claim it.
The Crystal has been seen from time to time in the city of Tyr for decades. It is thought that a bold thief might have stolen it from Kalak's treasury, only to be driven insane by the Crys tal's sinister whisperings. As recently as 20 years ago, a High Templar named Kiarnah embarked on a campaign of assassination and terror against his fellows, trying to win Kalak's patronage, on the Crystal's urgings. The Crystal disappeared during the revolution, but it is thought that it might have been taken to Urik by a fleeing ex-templar.
Agafari Rod[]
- Discipline: Psychokinesis
- Sciences: Telekinesis (13), telekinetic barrier (10)
- Devotions: Control flames (15), ballistic attack (11), deflect (14), inertial barrier (10), levitation (13)
- Intelligence: 12
- Alignment: Lawful Neutral
- PSPs: 64
- Ego: 16
The Agafari Rod is a mysterious device crafted by a hermit of the Crescent Forest. It is nearly 3 feet long and carved in the artistic fashion of Gulg, with totem-like creatures climbing its length. A tuft of exotic feathers decorates its head. The Aga- fari Rod is also enchanted as a club +2 in addition to its psionic properties.
The crafter of the Agafari Rod was a powerful druid known as the Keeper. He fought against the logging crews of Nibenay, and occasionally aided the war parties of Gulg by appearing to tell them where the Nibenese forces were encamped. Eventu ally, the Keeper so angered the Nibenese that a party of tem- plars was sent to track him down and kill him. Armed with powerful sorcery, they cut a ruined swath through the Keeper's Grove, forcing him to meet them in battle. The Keeper fell, and his weapon was taken back to Nibenay.
About five years after the expedition's return, the Agafari Rod was stolen from the High Templar's trophy chamber by a Gulgian slave who used it to kill her during his escape. For more than 20 years, nothing has been seen of the Rod, since the slave never appeared in Gulg. However, it's rumored that there's a new Keeper in the forest, and the Nibenese loggers must guard constantly against attacks from the woods.