Rod, rare (requires attunement by a cleric, druid, wizard, sorcerer, or warlock)

While holding this rod, you gain a +2 bonus to spell attack rolls and to the saving throw DCs of your spells.

In addition, you can regain 1 spell slot as a bonus action while holding the rod. You can’t use this property again until you finish a long rest.

The rod's core is blackened gold; it has heavy decorative wrappings of iron in several places. Casting identify on the rod at any level below 5th shows only a +2 rod. Above 5th level, the rod makes itself known as the Imperator's Rod and the identifier senses an evil bent within it. It exerts a pull on any spellcaster who picks it up. Once attuned to the rod, the spellcaster becomes secretly cursed. They find themselves unwilling to move too far away from the rod, to let another spellcaster hold it. If another caster attempts to attune, identify, or otherwise study the rod, there will be an argument likely to escalate to fisticuffs, or worse.

The longer the rod stays with a caster, the more profound its effects become. It will improve their physical appearance and condition, confidence, and their sense of self-importance. Particularly that last. To great effect. More and more. Eventually the paranoia sets in. The wielder begins to question the motives of anyone who does not share their aspirations, goals, or passions. They see conspiracy in coincidences. If it goes long enough, they will even suspect their closest friends of distressingly vile sins against them. Everything in the attuned caster's life must revolve around them. The caster's alignment shifts towards evil, and once there, towards chaos.

Once, and only once, when the attuned caster whose alignment has become evil feels truly threatened and in despair for their life, the rod will release its energy, destroying itself to summon a barbed devil which will protect the caster for 30 minutes or until it dies.

Notes: Bonus: Spell Attacks, Bonus: Spell Save DC, Exhaustion, cleric, druid, wizard, sorcerer, or warlock, Buff

Item Tags: Buff

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