Albeswine’s Cartograph of Revelation appears as a large, finely crafted parchment sewn into a thin metal frame of gleaming aluminum and brushed blue-grey steel. When unrolled, it displays the surrounding terrain in real-time—contours of land, architecture, and even the silhouettes of creatures—rendered in stark white lines entwined with faint pig-like glyphs. A soft, pearlescent glow highlights the edges, hinting at the pig-and-white magic coursing through every fiber.
Myths hold that the artifact was born of a grand cartomancer’s obsession with absolute knowledge of the battlefield—eventually corrupted by an otherworldly, porcine demi-god’s essence. Those who master its secrets gain uncanny powers of scrying and reality-warping, but its boar-like spirit constantly tests the wielder’s resolve, ensuring only the cunning can tame the Cartograph’s might.
1. Sensor Field
- Passive Effect: While holding or wearing the Cartograph, you perceive the location of all creatures within 200 feet of both you and the map, unless they’re behind total cover or protected from divination (e.g., nondetection).
- Creatures appear as faint, white silhouettes on the parchment.
- Does not reveal identity or pierce illusions that do not rely on simple invisibility.
2. Remote Strike (“Plunge into the Map”)
- Action (Recharge 5–6):
- Select one creature shown on the Cartograph within 200 feet.
- Make a melee spell attack (using your proficiency bonus + STR/DEX or spellcasting ability).
- On a hit, the target takes 4d8 + your STR/DEX modifier radiant or magical slashing damage.
- On a miss, the spectral blade fizzles harmlessly.
Flavor: As you stab the Cartograph with your weapon, an illusory pig’s squeal echoes, and your blade’s spirit form strikes the target at its distant location.
3. Map Warp
- 1/Day (or Recharge 6):
- Action: You focus on a point displayed within 200 feet on the Cartograph and teleport there, arriving in an unoccupied space.
- If the chosen space is blocked or warded, the teleport fails and the effect is wasted.
- If you take damage or are otherwise disrupted during casting, you must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or lose this action.
Flavor: Pale lines shimmer around you in the shape of a ghostly boar before you blink out of sight, reappearing precisely where the map indicated.
4. Distant Mark
- Bonus Action (At Will):
- Choose a creature shown on the Cartograph within 200 feet and “mark” it.
- You gain advantage on the next attack you make against that creature before the start of your next turn.
- The target can make a DC 15 Wisdom save at the end of each of its turns to end the mark early.
Flavor: A pig-shaped rune briefly flares above the marked target, visible to you (and perhaps your allies) as a glowing white brand.
5. Cartographic Cataclysm (Ultimate Ability)
- 1/Day (Action):
- You hold Albeswine’s Cartograph of Revelation aloft, channeling its stored boar-like might within a 30-foot radius centered on you (or a point you choose within 60 feet, at DM discretion).
- Each creature of your choice in that radius must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 8d8 radiant damage and is knocked prone; on a success, it takes half as much and remains standing.
- The affected area is overlaid with shifting pig-glyphs and glowing white lines for 1 minute, becoming difficult terrain for enemies. An enemy starting its turn there must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom save or become Frightened of you until the end of its turn.
Flavor: The Cartograph unfurls with a resonant squeal, superimposing an otherworldly map over reality. Pig-shaped streaks of light rend the ground, casting foes to the earth in a dazzling surge of radiant power.
Notes: Damage: Slashing, Attunement Attuning to Albeswine’s Cartograph of Revelation requires a short rest spent studying and mentally tracing its pig-shaped runes. Once attuned, the bearer gains all properties and can use them so long as the parchment is on their person or in hand. Ending attunement instantly halts all active effects.