When you take damage while holding this shield, you can use your reaction and speak its command word to gain temporary hit points equal to 1d8 per your character level. You gain the temporary hit points before the triggering damage is applied to you, and they last until the start of your next turn. When you use the shield in this way it crumbles to dust and is destroyed.

Shields require the Utilize action to Don or Doff. You gain the Armor Class benefit of a Shield only if you have training with it.