Wondrous Item, artifact (requires attunement by a Artificer )
Thousands of years ago, the Tieflings believed that they had brought the nebula in space inhabited by dwarfs completely under their heel. They had, it turned out, brought all the planets but one to heel, the dwarf's home world; Mandragon. Mandragon is a bastion for dragons, and the dwarfs and dragons flourished in a system of symbiosis. The dragons would help dwarfs in their excavations and the dwarfs would keep them safe for their sometimes centuries-long periods of hibernation. The dragons helped teach the dwarfs technologies and skills they otherwise wouldn't, and over the years, this led to the dwarfs reaching out to the planets around their homeworld. Although they never communicated it, the dragons, all along, were creating a buffer zone so that they could have the advance notice to go dark upon the dwarfs' civilization's inevitable discovery by the Tieflings. When the Tieflings first invaded the nebula, the dragons cast a spell on the entire planet of Mandragon, wrapping it in an unassuming hologram of the space around it. It still orbits its star and sunlight still reaches it, but it is undetectable to the outside world. In the very bowels of the Blue Dragon organization is a portal, the single opening to Mandragon, where you have been several times on quests for your organization.
Although never as adroit as the dragons with spellcasting, a genius tinker created holographic devices hundreds of years ago that utilize the same powers and can create the same effects as Mandragon's hologram, although on a much smaller scale.
The widget has three uses before it needs to be recharged. It can be recharged with 1 dragon canister (1/10 of the larger Dragon Canister).
When active, the Widget will work for 10 minutes (or up to 30 minutes continuously if you use a full charge all in one go). It requires an ACTION to activate and requires your concentration.
You create a hologram of an object occupying up to 1000 cubic meters of space (so 35ish feet by 35ish feet by 35ish feet). No single dimension can be > than 60ish feet. Those are the max sizes, but nothing is too small. You could use it to project a single blade of grass, or a mosquito, if you wanted to. A person, a vehicle, an animal. The hologram also projects auditory stimuli. You can move the holographic image around up to 300 feet from the Widget.
The "detect magic" spell will not detect the hologram's source.
Other forms of perception checks require a DC 16 to detect it. If a hologram passes through a sentient being, they will realize the hologram is not real.
Notes: Artificer , Control, Deception, Artificer
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