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MORE MAGIC OF THASSILON

Relics of the RuneloRds

by brian Cortijo and owen K. C. StephenS, with Stephen S. Greer, tim hitChCoCK,

miChael KorteS, niColaS loGue, and GreG a. VauGhan

E ven the passage of millennia has not erased the

mirror. If the master mirror is destroyed, its bearer loses this

bonus and the slave mirror is rendered inert, freeing any

victim and restoring his Charisma.

ConStruCtion

Requirements Crat Wondrous Item, bestow curse, eagle’s

splendor ; Cost 25,500 gp, 2,040 XP

wonders of ancient Thassilon. Pathinder #5 fea-

tures “Magic of Thassilon,” an investigation into

the sinister sin magic and forgotten spells of that fallen

empire’s decadent rulers. Yet, no one article can contain

all there is to know of the runelords’ magic. Revealed

here are 14 new magic items, fantastic treasures, and

deadly weapons that might lie waiting in the nameless

vaults and forgotten crypts of ageless Thassilon.

Dust of Envy

Aura moderate abjuration; CL 6th

Slot amulet; Price 900 gp

deSCription

Upon a frail silver chain dangles a tiny crystalline phial illed

with light blue dust. When one shatters the phial, it releases a

potent lash of abjuration magic that afects all evocation and

necromancy magic in a 30-foot-radius with a targeted dispel

magic. Each phial holds one use of the dust and, once used,

the item is destroyed. This phial can be used as a thrown

weapon (PH 158).

While legends credit Runelord Belimarius with creating

dust of envy, further historical accounts imply that the

remaining runelords also uncovered the secrets of making

their own virtue-related dusts—all of which activate under

similar circumstances and produce similar efects, being

attuned to a speciic sin and targeting spells of the schools

related to the two opposing sins.

ConStruCtion

Requirements Crat Wondrous Item, dispel magic; Cost 450

gp, 36 XP

Relics of envy

Vanity’s Eye

Aura moderate enchantment and transmutation; CL 12th

Slot none; Price 51,000 gp

Weight 1 lb.

deSCription

This pair of ine, silver hand mirrors secretly steals the

conidence and inesse of one bearer and transfers them to

another. Two distinct components make up vanity’s eye: a

silver hand mirror set with lawless glass (the master) and a

silver hand mirror set with slightly warped glass (the slave).

The mirrors have no efect until one looks into the slave

mirror. Once a creature looks into the slave mirror, it must

make a DC 20 Will save or be deceived by the mirror into

believing that it has magically made him more dashing,

suave, and glib. In truth, however, the slave mirror is cursed

and steals the bearer’s Charisma, causing him to take a –6

penalty to his Charisma score. The bearer is unaware of this

penalty, and will not willingly part with the magical mirror.

This penalty persists for as long as the mirror’s curse lasts.

Should the mirror be lost or taken, the bearer does all he can

to retrieve the mirror. Only break enchantment, limited wish,

remove curse, miracle, or wish can make the mirror’s holder

willingly part with the item and return his stolen Charisma.

Breaking the slave mirror also restores the victim’s Charisma.

The slave mirror can only afect one creature at a time and

has no afect on other creatures that look into it.

For as long as the slave mirror imposes a Charisma penalty

upon a victim, the bearer of the master mirror gains a +6

enhancement bonus to his Charisma. This bonus applies as

long as the master mirror’s bearer is within 10 feet of the

Relics of GluTTony

Famine Rod

Aura moderate necromancy; CL 6th

Slot held; Price 24,000 gp

Weight 3 lbs.

deSCription

A famine rod is a 2-foot length of ebony carved in the likeness

of a gaunt, emaciated man. As a standard action, the wielder

can expend 1 charge to make a ranged touch attack against

a foe within 60 feet, dealing 2d6 points of damage on a hit.

The wielder gains temporary hit points equal to half of the

damage the rod deals. The temporary hit points disappear

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1 hour later. The wielder can expend 3 charges to deal 4d6

points of damage instead.

A famine rod has 10 charges when found. Spent charges

are renewed once per week, so that a wielder can expend up

to 10 charges in any 1-week period.

ConStruCtion

Requirements Crat Rod, vampiric touch; Cost 12,000 gp, 960 XP

he does not notice this, the bearer begins eating far more

than before and rapidly puts on weight, his physical form

beginning to emulate Zutha’s in life.

The Bone Grimoire: This portion of the tome bears the

leathery lesh front-cover, twisted rib binding, and a hundred

pages of blood-scripted verse and grisly diagrams. Anyone

who reads the entire text of strange runic code (requiring

1 week of uninterrupted study and a DC 25 Decipher Script

check) must make a DC 20 Will save, or gain a +2 inherent

bonus to Intelligence and begin to take on traits of the

undead (see below). Regardless of this save’s result, the

bearer acquires a deep understanding of necromancy,

gaining a permanent +4 insight bonus on all Knowledge

(arcana) and Spellcrat checks involving this school of magic.

In addition, this section includes a lesh golem manual

identical to the one in the Kardosian Codex .

Ater reading the Grimoire , the bearer’s lesh takes on a

pale cast and, if he failed his Will save, his life force is slowly

replaced by necromantic unlife. Ater reading the entire

text of the Bone Grimoire, the bearer is no longer healed by

positive energy, but rather harmed by it. Negative energy

now heals him. If the bearer channels energy (if he is a cleric

for example) he now channels negative energy. Only a wish or

miracle reverses this condition.

The Black Book: This portion of the Gluttonous Tome

consists of a charred lesh back-cover and 100 pages of

smoked skin scrawled with blood runes in Zutha’s erudite

hand. Anyone reading the Black Book and keeping it on their

person gains the ability to rebuke or command undead as a

cleric of his total character level. If the bearer already possess

this ability, he doubles the amount of undead he can control

at any one time. This section also includes a lesh golem

manual , just like the others.

The Black Book corrupts its reader’s mind and heart. Every

day the GM should make a secret Will save for the bearer—

the DC starts at 10 but increases by +1 for every consecutive

successful save the bearer makes. Every failed save shits the

bearer’s alignment one step toward chaotic evil.

Rebinding the Gluttonous Tome: If two or more portions

of the Gluttonous Tome are brought within 10 feet of each

other, they surge together, tearing free from anyone holding

them and bathing a 30-foot radius spread with ghoulish

green light. This light causes all living creatures within it to

become nauseated for 1d6 rounds (no save). The sections

mesh and meld, lesh knitting with lesh and bones grinding

together. If two or more individuals control a portion of the

tome when they fuse together, the one with the highest total

character level gains control (determined randomly if there is

a tie). Two fused sections grant the bearer the efects of both

parts and the following spell-like abilities at a caster level

equal to the bearer’s HD:

The Gluttonous Tome

Major Artifact

Aura overwhelming necromancy; CL 20th

Slot held; Price priceless

Weight 3 lbs. per section

deSCription

Karzoug is not alone in his restless sleep of the ages. Zutha,

The undead lord of Gastash and Runelord of Gluttony saw

the end in the stars just as his compatriots did and prepared

accordingly. To ensure his vile soul’s return, the runelord

crated a tome of leathered lesh, bound in bone, and inked

in the blood of a thousand slaves. The Gluttonous Tome was

Zutha’s opus—the result of a decade’s toil and his plan to rise

from the ashes of Thassilon.

Dividing his masterwork into three parts—each a potent

artifact in its own right—the Runelord of Greed secreted the

means of his resurrection away in three of his farthest-lung

holdings, protected by the stewardship of his most devout

servants. Thassilon’s cataclysmic end disrupted Zutha’s hopes

of a swit return, though, as his minions deserted, died,

or betrayed their master, resulting in the sections being

scatted across Avistan. For millennia, the potent abjurations

protecting its pages saved the parts of the Gluttonous

Tome from destruction, with each having been lost and

rediscovered countless times. Throughout the centuries the

evil tripartite book has schemed to rejoin its pages.

The three portions of the text and the abilities they confer

are as follows:

The Kardosian Codex: Named for a sinister devourer

wizard who became its custodian a thousand years ago, this

is the middle portion of Zutha’s masterpiece, a 4-inch-thick

sheaf of bone-white blank parchment, indestructible and

completely impossible to mark. The Codex’s power is a secret

only told in blood. Soaking its pages in fresh gore reveals

it to be a spellbook containing spells from the necromancy

school. The only marring the book’s pristine pages sufer is

the addition of more necromancy spells penned in blood.

The book contains every arcane necromancy spell of 1st to 7th

level. Any necromancy spell prepared from the Codex is cast

at +1 caster level. The book also absorbs necromantic energy,

granting the bearer a +4 bonus on saves versus necromancy

efects and immunity to energy draining efects of any kind

(such as from enervation or a vampire’s slam attack). Finally

this section of the Gluttonous Tome includes a lesh golem

manual that re-scribes itself one year ater it’s used.

At will —detect undead, gentle repose

3/day — empowered ray of enfeeblement, false life

The Codex’s hunger passes to the bearer as well. Although

1/day —bestow curse

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If all three parts of the Gluttonous Tom e are brought

together, their bearer is granted the beneits noted above as

well as the following:

3/day — maximized vampiric touch, create undead

1/day —create greater undead, waves of exhaustion

The Gluttonous Tome is Zutha’s phylactery, a slow-burning

vessel of hate that infests any who read it. It corrupts

everyone it touches, ofering them great power over life and

death, but at a secret price. Once the tome is fully rejoined,

its bearer is slowly seduced and devoured by Zutha, the

Runelord of Gluttony. The tome manifests an insidious,

seductive intellect (see below), which it uses to tempt its

bearer to feats of greater and greater depravity. Zutha’s soul

feeds on the necromantic power embraced by the bearer.

Every month, the bearer must make a DC 30 Fortitude save

or gain a +1 inherent bonus to Intelligence (this stacks with

that bonus granted by the Bone Grimoire to a maximum

gain up to Intelligence 26) and permanently lose 1 point

of Constitution. This reduction in Constitution cannot be

restored by mortal magic as long as the Tome is retained.

Despite this wasting away, the bearer becomes addicted to

the necromantic power the tome grants, and must make a

DC 40 Will save to part with the book. Once the tome slays

the bearer, Zutha gains complete control of the body, which

soon transforms into the runelord’s original, bloated, undead

body, freeing him to wreak his evil upon Golarion once more.

The Gluttonous Tome : AL LE; Int 26, Wis 20, Cha 23; speech,

telepathy; 120 t. darkvision and hearing; Ego score 35.

Lesser powers: detect magic at will, major image 1/day, 10

ranks in Bluf (total modiier +16), 10 ranks in Knowledge

(arcana) (total modiier +18).

Greater powers: clairvoyance 3/day, detect undead at will,

fear 3/day.

deStruCtion

The assembled tome must be used as the fuel to cook a meal

for a pious king who has not eaten in over 14 days.

touch; Cost 3,000 gp, 240 XP

Golden Helm of Xin-Shalast

Aura strong transmutation; CL 15th

Slot head; Price 48,000 gp

deSCription

This ornate, crested helmet of gold is typical of those worn

by palace and household guards in and around Xin-Shalast.

Topped with a brush of platinum bristles and iligreed with

silver around the rim and nose guard, the golden helm is

as much a display of wealth and status as it is a powerful

magic tool. When donning a golden helm of Xin-Shalast, the

wearer takes on the appearance of a masterfully sculpted

golden statue. This change is purely cosmetic, except for 10

minutes per day when the owner can activate the efects of

an iron body spell. The iron body efect can be activated as a

free action.

ConStruCtion

Requirements Crat Wondrous Item, iron body; Cost 24,000

gp, 1,920 XP

Relics of lusT

Sadist’s lash

Aura moderate enchantment; CL 11th

Slot held; Price 22,301 gp

deSCription

The sadist’s lash is a long whip of black leather, with sliver

wires running the length of its lash. The lash acts as a +1

wounding whip, which aids enchantment spells in two simple

ways. First, it can deliver enchantment spells with a range of

touch (most notably irresistible dance and touch of idiocy) as if

the wielder had touched the creature struck . Additionally, any

creature that takes damage from the lash does not get the

normal +5 bonus on its saving throw to resist charm person or

similar enchantment spells cast by the wielder or his allies.

This efect lasts 1 minute ater a creature has been struck.

ConStruCtion

Requirements Crat Magic Arms and Armor, dominate person;

Cost 11,301 gp, 880 XP

Relics of GReed

Glove of Strength-Stealing

Aura moderate necromancy; CL 6th

Slot gloves; Price 6,000 gp

deSCription

This single, seamless glove of gray calfskin is itted with

silver inger bones, covering the wearer’s hand snugly yet

stretching to accommodate movement. Once per day, the

wearer of a glove of strength-stealing may spend a free action

to activate a chill touch efect, as per the spell. Any Strength

damage inlicted by the wearer’s touch for the 6 rounds

it remains in efect is added to his Strength score as an

enhancement bonus (to a maximum of +6). This bonus fades

1 hour ater the glove is activated.

ConStruCtion

Requirements Crat Wondrous Item, bull’s strength, chill

Scintillating Garment

Aura moderate enchantment; CL 7th

Slot torso; Price 14,000 gp

deSCription

A scintillating garment can become either a tight-itting tunic

of any style or a long, tight dress of any cut. It appears to

be made of mist and shimmering silks, hinting at the form

and color of the skin beneath without revealing it. When

worn, it gives any successful Diplomacy check made by the

wearer the chance to increase one target’s attitude by one

additional step (PH 72). The wearer chooses a single target

afected by her Diplomacy check to make a DC 13 Will save.

If the target fails, his attitude improves by one step above the

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attitude indicated by the check. If the target succeeds, he is

unafected by the garment but his attitude is still adjusted by

the successful Diplomacy check as normal. Any target that

successfully saves against the garment’s efects is immune to

its magic for 24 hours. A scintillating garment has no afect on

a failed Diplomacy check.

ConStruCtion

Requirements Crat Wondrous Item, eagle’s splendor; Cost

7,000 gp, 560 XP

Requirements Crat Wondrous Item, disguise self, greater

command, shout; Cost 11,500 gp, 920 XP

MaGic of sloTh

Effigy of the Favored Servant

Aura Strong transmutation and necromancy; CL 15th

Slot hand; Price 60,000 gp

deSCription

An eigy of the favored servant is a thumb-sized igurine of

wondrous power depicting a marble, toga-wearing slave. When

commanded, the statue grows and animates with the same

statistics as a hill giant. The giant has no hint of personality,

but is capable of telepathically receiving orders from the item’s

possessor up to a range of 100 feet. The item can be used

twice a week for up to 6 hours per use. If animated in an area

too small for the giant to appear in, the igurine simply doesn’t

animate, with no weekly use expended.

In addition to its use as a igurine of wondrous power, an

eigy of the favored servant can be used as the repository of a

dying soul once per day. By spending a full round action on

a sentient, living creature reduced to –1 or fewer hit points,

the eigy’s bearer can draw its soul into the statuette, killing

the creature if it fails a DC 22 Will save. From that time

forward, the giant summoned by the igurine has the same

personality as the killed creature. The creature must obey

the igurine bearer’s commands, and the eigy functions as

normal. The creature retains none of the skills or abilities

it had in life, being efectively trapped within the statuette.

The creature cannot be resurrected or otherwise returned to

life unless the eigy is destroyed. If the eigy is used to trap

another dying soul, the irst is released and may be raised

normally.

ConStruCtion

Requirements Crat Wondrous Item, animate objects, death

knell, trap the soul; Cost 30,000 gp, 2,400 XP

MaGic of PRide

Empty hands

Aura moderate illusion; CL 7th

Slot gloves; Price 18,000 gp

deSCription

The empty hands are an innocuous looking pair of well-

crated gloves made of sot, tanned brown leather. As a

standard action, the wearer can cause any weapon or item

he holds to become invisible for 3 minutes, during which it

is clear the wearer is holding something, but it’s not possible

to see exactly what it is. The wearer gains a +1 circumstance

bonus on attack rolls with an invisible weapon, a +5

circumstance bonus on opposed Bluf checks made to feint

in combat or claim to be unarmed, and a +10 circumstance

bonus on opposed Sleight of Hand checks made to conceal

a weapon or item. This invisibility can be dismissed as a free

action. The 3 minutes a held item is invisible need not be

consecutive, but must be expended in 1-minute increments.

Empty hands grant no bonuses against foes able to see

invisible objects, as per spells like see invisibility or true seeing.

Empty hands can only afect one item at a time, even if one

item is held in each hand.

ConStruCtion

Requirements Crat Rod, greater invisibility; Cost 9,000 gp,

720 XP

Mantle of Lordly Command

Aura moderate illusion and enchantment; CL 10th

Slot mantle; Price 23,000 gp

deSCription

This intimidating mantle of gold and silver is set with several

large gems, which seem to change in cut and type of stone

every time it’s viewed. The wearer of this mantle always

appears to be clean, uninjured, and calm, granting him a +5

bonus on Diplomacy checks. Also, once per day as a standard

action, the wearer can bellow a single word in a thundering,

imperious tone. This functions as the spell shout , and the

word can be heard by any creature within 200 feet. If this

word is one of the ive orders detailed by the spell command,

in addition to the efects of shout, all creatures within 25 feet

must make a DC 16 Will save or be afected as if by the spell

command. Those damaged by shout take a –4 penalty on this

Will save.

Ring of the Clean Hands

Aura strong transmutation; CL 9th

Slot hand; Price 18,000 gp

deSCription

This delicate ring of forged bronze is formed into the shape

of two hands, which do not quite touch as they meet at the

top of the wearer’s inger. A ring of the clean hands grants use

of telekinesis as a standard action and has 10 charges. These

charges return at the start of the next day.

The ring’s charges can be expended to create the

following effects:

Combat maneuver: This efect costs 3 charges for each

round it is active, but otherwise functions as described by

the spell telekinesis. The force created by this efect has a +9

base attack bonus, and is considered to have Strength 20 and

Dexterity 20.

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Force lash: This efect costs 3 charges, striking out as if with

an invisible whip. One target within 60 feet must make a DC

17 Will save or be struck for 4d6 points of nonlethal damage.

This attack does not afect targets with a +3 or higher natural

armor bonus, or a +1 or higher armor bonus.

Sustained force: This efect costs 1 charge for each round

it is active, but otherwise functions as described by the spell

telekinesis, making it capable of liting 225 lbs .

Violent thrust: This efect costs 5 charges, but otherwise

functions as described by the spell telekinesis , allowing you to

throw up to 9 creatures or objects up to 90 feet, with a total

weight of 225 lbs . The attack roll has a +9 modiier. The Will

save is DC 17.

ConStruCtion

Requirements Crat Wondrous Item, telekinesis; Cost 9,000

gp, 720 XP

on the spear and deals 5d6 points of ire damage to all

creatures within a 20-foot-radius spread. The spear’s bearer

or allies are not immune to this damage (unless they have

immunity to ire from another source) and the weapon is

destroyed.

A sacriicial spear can be detonated at a range by spending

a full-round action to throw the spear and crush the gem.

If the attack roll hits the target, the ireball is centered on

the target, otherwise refer to the thrown weapons chart to

determine where the spear lands (PH 158). Each spear has a

speciic shard attuned to it at the time of its creation, which

can be removed or reaixed to its spear as a standard action.

ConStruCtion

Requirements Crat Magic Arms and Armor, ireball; Cost

1,052 gp, 60 XP

MaGic of WRaTh

Rod of Malrion

Aura moderate evocation; CL 7th

Slot held; Price 22,400 gp

deSCription

This 14-inch rod of simple white oak is sheathed with a

3-inch sleeve of rune-carved steel in the middle. The ends

are seared, as if the wood had endured a forest ire. Once

per day, the wielder of a rod of Malrion can surround a target

with four walls of ire, forming a square around the target.

The caster determines whether the walls spring up within 10

or 20 feet of the target and whether the heat afects creatures

within or outside the barrier of lames. If the walls are raised

within 10 feet of the target with the heat spreading inward,

the target takes 8d4 points of ire damage by standing at

the centermost space; if they are created within 20 feet,

the target takes no damage if he does not move from the

centermost space. The size of the target does not afect how

far away from a creature the walls appear. Passing through

any of the walls deals 2d6+7 points of ire damage (double

damage to undead).

The rod creates as many of the four walls of ire as it can,

though barriers and cramped quarters might prevent the

walls from appearing at their full size. The lames created by

the rod last for 1 minute.

ConStruCtion

Requirements Crat Rod, wall of ire ; Cost 11,200 gp, 896 XP

Sacrificial Spear

Aura faint evocation; CL 5th

Slot held; Price 1,802 gp

deSCription

An ashen shat with a steel blade, this inely crated

masterwork shortspear holds a removable shard of carnelian

at its base. By crushing the gem as a move action, the spear

explodes as per the spell ireball. This detonation is centered

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