Glasses:

Noting Berrus' interest, the Professor pauses his filling of the water barrels and instead clears the water in the direction the dwarf is looking.  "See anything interesting, Berrus?  Do you need me to use any magic to assist you?"

"Nah i tink i got it. Might be needin yer mirror fer it later tho"

As you retrieve the figurine, you realise that it is a fist-sized jade figurine of a parrot, inlaid with lapis lazuli, garnets, and amber to give a vividöy colourful plumage. The workmanship on it is exquisite, but you have no way of telling how old the figurine is. Looking around you though, you find no indication of anyone else's presence.

Perfesser take a look a this

Berrus looks around confused

"Professer??"

He hurriedly sets the statuette on the ground

As Berrus places the statue on the ground, he returns to the woodland scene by the riverside. The figurine is gone, but in its stead, a raven is pecking at the ground.

To anyone else looking, nothing extraordinary has happened, until a startled Berrus drops the figurine and a raven appears.

"Well tha was different,   Perfesser  i swear there was i golden statue where tha Raven be"

Glasses: 

"Yes, I saw the figurine, but you dropped it and it turned into that Raven.  Perhaps it is a magic item you can command, or pick it back up and have it transform back into a statuette-give it a try, if you like," responds the Professor, trying to recall if he has heard of any magical items or effects that have such abilities.

Arcana:  13

"I dinna ken ifn i wan to.  When i held it you all were nae there"

Professor, it is fairly common practice around the known world to imbue totems with magical powers, and that conjuration magic is occasionally used by wizards and druids or naturalistic clerics to produce animal companions and the like. You haven't heard about anything that provides visions or transports the indivual somewhere else though.

Glasses:

Intrigued, the Professor gets out his mirror and focuses on the raven/statuette, invoking it’s magic and holding it so that both he and Berrus can see the results, saying, “If this creature’s history is acceptable, I would certainly be willing to take the creature ‘under my wing’ and see what I can learn about it.”

The first image shows you a valley with a dark castle overlooking a gorge. The entire area seems to be cast into a somber twilight, like the entire area were overcast by thick clouds on a rainy day. A murder of crows flies into the picture and heading straight for the highest tower of the fortress. The second image shows a beautiful elven woman with raven black hair and porcelain white skin walking through a scene of intensely strange natural beauty, towards an ancient forest, with other elves with translucent golden skin waiting inside. Before she gets to the forest though, she flies into a rage, unleashing a cataclysmic whirlwind of magical and elemental energies. The third image shows hundreds of elves, gathered in a palace, smiling and slitting their throats. Before them, the same beautiful elven queen sits in full regalia of a queen, seemingly gaining power from their sacrifice. The fourth image shows a beautiful being with brightly shining skin and a head wreathed in flames or the sun's rays, leading an army of similarly bright skinned and shining elves into battle against twisted black arachnid creatures, led by a woman that seems half elfish and half spider.

 Fang looks up from his whittling of arrows. “Everything okay? Did you see something in the water?” Fang asks of Berrus. 

Insight on the bird??  11

The bird in front of you appears to be just like any other raven you've seen. Come to think of it though, you haven't seen any ravens in this jungle yet... and still Shae held a raven's feather.

"This dinna seem right. Not atall. Yes thoughts professer?"

Then to himself. Os this where shaes feather came from

Glasses:

Shrugging, the Professor moves over to the Raven to see if it flies off or seems "tame".  He says, "I doubt the Raven will respond to me directly as I did not activate the statuette, but I will try.  It seems to have served some ancient and powerful elves, but that does not necessarily make it good or evil." 

Looking at the bird, Snively says, "Are you capable of speaking, Raven?  If you can speak, I can perform a ritual that will let me comprehend your language if it is unknown to me."  If the bird responds with apparent intelligence, Snively will try to engage it in conversation (using Comprehend Languages if needed).  If it does not, he will try to pick it up and see if it flies off, returns to Berrus, or allows him to pick it up (and possibly returns to statuette form).

After some time pacing around the boat, Shae would decide to disembark. She'd take a walk along the beach.

The Raven squawks: "Protect her. Let her know she is safe. Let her know I'm never far." Although the professor is close to the raven, it seems to look at Berrus, as it squawks these words, in a hollow imitation of a comforting voice, like a mother's lullaby.

As it finishes it's message, the raven slowly turns back to a jade and crystal encrusted figurine.

Fang has finished carving two arrows, but is now fascinated by the strange goings on. 

Shae, walking on the beach, spots Mushu flying towards her, and curling up around her shoulders, snapping at the hair at the back of her neck in a playful manner. Shortly thereafter, she finds a beautiful shell, about fist sized, half buried in the sand.

Berrus stares first at the bird.  Then the professor.

Silently almost without a thought he pickets the statuette

"With me last breath" he says softly