What We Carry
The Chain Breaker
+2 warhammer · rare · requires attunement. Attuned by Agatha.
A heavy dwarven warhammer with a head forged from deep iron and inlaid with silver runes in an archaic dialect. The haft is wrapped in sharkskin leather that never grows slick. When held, the wielder feels a faint vibration — like a heartbeat in the stone.
| Property | Effect |
|---|---|
| Clarity of Will | While attuned: advantage on saving throws against psychic attacks, and resistance to psychic damage |
| Freeing Strike | On a hit against an aberration, +1d8 radiant. This rises to 2d8 against anything able to charm, dominate or enslave |
| Sever the Chain (1/day) | Action. Strike the ground for a pulse of divine light in a 30-foot radius. Each creature of your choice in the area that is charmed, frightened, or under a domination or enslavement effect immediately repeats its saving throw to end it. The original caster does not need to be present |
Where it came from. Out of a behir's hoard on 17 April, in a cavern west and south of the Sanctuary. The party did not find it by chance — the Way sent them. He named it in advance as a weapon made specifically to oppose the Old Ones, marked the cavern on their map as "great reptiles," advised them to kill the behir from range, and handed over two vials of lightning resistance for the job.
He later examined it with visible reverence and confirmed it: genuine, and able to shatter the mental shackles of those held in psychic thrall. Its primary use, he said, is killing the things it was built to fight, and freeing those in their thrall.
Sever the Chain is a thirty-foot area effect that frees the dominated, and the dominator does not have to be present for it to work.
The hammer is dwarven, of deep iron, with silver runes in an archaic dialect, and it is in the hands of a dwarf cleric of Torag, god of the forge and protection. Where it was made, and how it got into a behir's nest, is unestablished.
Currently carried
| Item | Holder | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Stormcaller Blade | Kvothe | Magical longsword, lightning damage. Taken off a bugbear in the Sunless Citadel. Destroyed the Derro portal |
| Flail of Fear | Agatha | Taken off Markus's body. Inflicts frightened — used on a bulette |
| Phoenix Cloak | Agatha | From behind the dragon door in the Sunless Citadel. "Like the forge on a cold morning" |
| Dwarven Plate and a medium shield | Agatha | AC 21 in full kit |
| The Oathbow | Sylvara | See below |
| Periapt of Proof Against Poison | Dravona | Emerald torque from the behir's hoard. Immunity to poison damage and the poisoned condition |
| Stone of Good Luck | Dravona, attuned | +1 to all ability checks and saves |
| Boots of the Winterlands | Kvothe | Troll hoard. They made him feel warm |
| Cloak of the Manta Ray | Kvothe | |
| Cloak of hairless skin | Kvothe | Troll hoard, transmutation. It shrank to fit him. It has not yet done anything alarming |
| Decanter of Endless Water | Ubo | Essential in the deep |
| Silver ring, amethyst and thorn | Agatha | Troll hoard, abjuration |
| Dawnforge Gauntlets | Held at the keep | Iron, etched with dwarven runes. From Araniax's hoard |
| Starlit Compass | Left with Vaelin | Silver, sapphire needle, elven constellations. From Araniax's hoard |
| The silver bracelet | Wearer unrecorded | One-use group teleport to Rockhome, everyone holding hands. Lost if the wearer dies or removes it |
| The Underdark map | Party | From Felani. Destroy if captured |
| The Iron Circle contract | Handed to Banner | The proof |
| Two Potions of Resistance (Lightning) | Agatha | The Way's vials for the behir. Never spent |
| Potion of Heroism, Potion of Frost Giant Strength, Potion of Resistance (Psychic) | Agatha |
The Oathbow
A white bow found leaning against a wall in the Underdark.
- Kvothe grabbed it and took lightning damage. Tried again and went down
- Ubo tried and was shocked too
- Jocelin saw it appear again mid-battle, took it up, and heard "death to our enemies."
It chooses. And then it chose again. Jocelin was killed by a wraith on the 29th of Autumn, and the Oathbow came off her body. Sylvara carries it now, and has hit a kuo-toa leader for 41 with it.
It put one party member on the floor and injured another, and it has not objected to a third.
Given back
Windsong — a very rare +3 longbow resting on the altar in the Sanctuary of Whispered Stars. Kvothe took it and gave it to Jocelin.
The Keeper came for it on second watch. It did not belong to Jocelin. Return it, or "the way" would come. Jocelin returned it — and in exchange the Keeper granted the party use of the Sanctuary for rest.
It was confirmed back on its pedestal when the party returned on 3 April. They know exactly where it is, they are welcome there, and nobody has tried again.
Refused
The tainted spear. Found in the Brokenskull orc hoard in the Dawnforge mines. It radiates bad vibes. Uncle Bill identified it: powerful enchantments, and a bad feeling.
Nobody in the party would carry it, and nobody has ever asked why an orc raiding party in an abandoned copper mine was holding it.
Transferred by combat
The Master of the Mantis tattoos. Mystical markings granting monk abilities that transfer to whoever defeats their bearer.
Zarah took them off a Derro master at the portal chamber; they moved onto her skin the instant she landed the killing blow. She described them as "a second voice that is not quite my own."
She left with them. If she is ever defeated, whoever beats her becomes Master of the Mantis.
Lost, spent, or unaccounted for
| Item | What happened |
|---|---|
| Kvothe's chronicle and ink | Fell down a crevice, 1 May. The party's only written record of itself |
| A magical shield | Agatha's. Lost in the great lake. Caldris walked the bottom looking for it and the party searched again. Still missing |
| The Golden Apple | From the Gulthias Tree. Traded to Voren for spells. Voren has been abducted |
| +1 Plate Mail and a +1 Bastard Sword | Jocelin's. Cached on the trail near Nenlast on the 29th of Autumn. Nobody went back |
| Jocelin's family signet ring | Never identified to a house. Her family have not been told she is dead |
| The brass key | Won by Kvothe at the Midsummer storytelling contest. It has never opened anything |
| The runed coin | An Underdark spell anchor, one of a connected pair, found in Voren's tower. Where is the other half? |
| The scrying rope | Planted by Rindle in the mind flayers' tribute chest, with the matching piece left with Voren. Rindle left. Voren was taken. Status unknown |
| The runed tablet | From the Shrieking Mire — "from mist to mist the dead shall march." Held by the Riders |
| The tablets from Ioun's temple | Held by Ruin. Contents unknown |
| The kuo-toa scroll case | Sealed, trapped, and magically tracked. Destroyed with Void Maw before anyone read it |
| A vial of turquoise liquid (transmutation) | Troll hoard. Never identified |
| Mysterious kegs | From a kuo-toa cache. Contents unknown |
| Five sleeping arrows | Crafted by Assassin Thornapple for three vials of spider venom |
Consumables worth knowing about
- Yew Claw bark, dried — +1d4 to Intelligence saving throws for one hour. The reason three of the party survived a Mind Blast
- Fairy Caps — two in the healer's satchel, foraged by Ubo
- Potions of Domination — enemy materiel. They lower resistance to mind control. Nobody has ever established who makes them