While you wear this amulet, you are able to discern if a living organism is experiencing medical distress due to a plague or poison or injury. The magical underpinnings of the detection are based on the same precepts as healing spells, which need to differentiate between healthy and injured tissues prior to performing their restorative transformational magics. Rather than continue on to begin the healing process, this enchantment merely confirms the existence of a non-magical malady.
The small gemstone that serves as the indicator will glow brightly when within arm's length (approximately 3 feet, or one meter) of an organism that has been injured, poisoned, or is suffering from a physical illness like disease, dehydration, hypoxia, or malnutrition.
Permanent transformations will not trigger the amulet, nor will magical transformations that impose altered physical conditions. The temporary loss of ability stats like DEX, CON, INT, WIS, unless they also coincide with other temporary and recoverable physical symptoms, may also fail to trigger the sensing conditions (DM's discretion). The amulet's effect will also not work on undead or other animated necromantic constructs - not truly alive, there's no boundary between "healthy" and "unhealthy" tissue to detect.
Notes: Buff, Jewelry
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