Arctic Mermaid Scale

Item of unknown rarity.

This scale comes from an arctic mermaid, a creature rarely found below the polar regions or colder coastlines. When used in different ways, this scale provides different benefits.

Feature: As an action, the bearer of the scale can gain resistance to cold damage while worn (limited).

Feature: As an action, the bearer of the scale can gain advantage on Constitution saving throws for up to one hour.

Feature: Cast an an action, the bearer of the scale may use it to cast Water Breathing. The spell will last up to 24 hours.

Once all three charges are expended, the scale will regain its uses with the effects of a long rest. If all three charges are not expended, the same applies. No action expended will last longer than the required long rest period.

As an item, the scale is versatile. It can retain temperatures and provide heat or cooling to its bearer. It is said in some places that adding a scale to a pot of water before cooking will enhance the flavor of whatever is made. If worn on the bearer's person like an amulet, the scale can give a half-proficiency to insight checks due to its sensitive nature. This object requires an arcana check (DC 12) by any buyers or traders and is considered of little value if the skill check is not made. The item is not sentient, but it is sensitive. It cannot grant additional charges or speak, but the attunement will be more than obvious to its bearer. The scale can only be destroyed by magical means. It has resistance to most damage types, and has immunity to fire and cold damage. If cracked, chipped, or shattered, the scale will dissipate and re-form in the last place the bearer retrieved it from on the next long rest.

Notes: Resistance: Cold, Advantage: Constitution Saving Throws, Half Proficiency: Insight, by any class. If this item is found, it must be meditated on for one hour in order to be attuned to the bearer. If this is a gift or a token, it is automatically attuned to its bearer until it is traded, gifted again, or destroyed., Buff, Utility, Warding