A delicate, silver band forged with intricate runes, this artifact is designed to anchor knowledge itself. When worn, the band magically binds itself to a staff, causing it to become a living conduit for magical lore. As the band pulses with power, books and scrolls attuned to the wearer float gracefully around the staff, each page shimmering with hidden power. The band acts as a guardian to the spellbooks it binds, protecting them while granting the wielder an unparalleled command over their contents.
The floating tomes are more than mere symbols of magical knowledge—they act as extensions of the attuned caster, opening their pages at a thought and offering spells with an effortless grace.
Random Properties. The band has the following randomly determined properties:
- 3 minor beneficial properties
- 1 minor detrimental properties
Properties
- Common Staff: The band allows spell books you are attuned to float around the staff, visibly orbiting it.
- Uncommon Staff: The floating spell books are bound to the staff by an invisible force, preventing them from moving farther than 15 feet from it.
- Rare Staff: While the spell books are orbiting the staff, the wielder counts as if they are in possession of the books, and the books are treated as if they are being held for any effects requiring touch.
- Very Rare Staff: The band gains one charge, which it regains at dawn. As a bonus action, the wielder can expend this charge to immediately swap one prepared spell with an unprepared spell of the same level from a floating attuned spell book.
- Legendary Staff: You gain an additional attunement slot that can only be used for a spell book.
- Artifact Staff: You can perform a 1-hour ritual to suppress one negative trait from a spellbook you are attuned to. You may only have one negative trait suppressed in total across all attuned spellbooks at any time. If you perform the ritual again, the previously suppressed trait is no longer suppressed, and you may select a different negative trait to suppress. The ritual requires rare magical ink worth 5,000 gp and sacrifices one 6th-level spell slot. The sacrificed spell slot remains unavailable until the suppression effect is no longer active.
Destroying the Band. The band can only be destroyed by casting it into the River Styx, where it will reveal a hidden inscription along its inner surface. This inscription, visible only for one week relative to your plane of existence, must be read aloud for the band to shatter into fragments. Few know this secret, but a powerful archmage or a lich who once wielded the band might be able to share this knowledge—if one can persuade them to do so.
Notes: Control, Utility
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