Made of glass and enchanted to never break, each bauble is a small, smoothly finished teardrop roughly the length of a thumb and light enough to wear as a pendant, stitch onto a cloak, or simply carry in a pouch. Within the glass lies the image of a rip—a thin, pale fissure that runs through the heart of the teardrop as if the molten sand were pulled sharply apart and then smoothed closed again before it could fully harden. The glass itself is milk-and-bone white, refined so that light passes through it with a faint inner shimmer. When held to the sun it looks almost clear at the edges and in shadow it deepens to the color of old ivory.
This item is passed along by the people who came from a place far across the Astral Sea. They give these baubles to remind people of their deity, a tear in the sky overlooking their distant world. They hold utility spells that seem harmless and can actually be helpful in the right situations. Unknown to those who carry them, every Bauble of Khar’Veyl is a quiet instrument of survey and invitation. The internal rip is not merely decorative. It is a minute, persistent conduit. Each time the glass changes hands—or even rests for a time against a new person’s skin, pack, or bedding—the distant god brushes against that life and retains a faint impression.
Once per day while holding the bauble in your hand, you may touch a medium or small corpse and undo the residual life energies that hold its form together. This reduces the corpse to fine ashes that will scatter on the slightest of breezes, leaving any equipment it might have been wearing behind. This item has no effect upon constructs or undead creatures. A corpse affected by this spell cannot be turned into a corporeal undead, nor can it be brought back from the dead except by Wish or True Resurrection. You can use this item on large corpses when you have obtained 7 levels, huge corpses when you have obtained 12 levels, and gargantuan corpses when you have obtained 16 levels.
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