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Mythos Magic Items and Artifacts
This section examines some of the most common and
notorious magic items of the Cthulhu Mythos Such
items are appropriate treasure for many of the monsters
and cults described elsewhere in this book, but many
are hard to find otherwise As normal, the GM decides
if any particular item is available to be crafted or
purchased Table: Magic Items lists all included
magic items by price
Mythos Magic Items
BOKRUG EGG
Aura strong conjuration; CL 15th; Slot none; Price 49,000
gp; Weight 2 lbs.
This clammy iron sphere allows its holder to summon a
ghost of Ib (see page 221) once per day on command
CO N S T R U C T I O N
Cost 24,500 gp; Requirements Craft Wondrous Item,
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BRAZEN HEAD, MINOR
Aura faint evocation; CL 5th; Slot none; Price 5,200 gp;
Weight 15 lbs.
Alignment chaotic neutral; Senses 30 ft., darkvision; Int
10; Wis 13; Cha 10; Ego 2; Languages speech (Aklo,
Common)
This half-scale brass bust has a minor, normal, major,
and legendary version It functions as a minor ring of
spell storing except it must be held to be used and it
holds only 1 spell level
The minor brazen head has 5 ranks in Profession
(Yog-Sothothery philosopher), for a bonus of +6
Unlike most intelligent items, the brazen head can use
its ego to influence any character who spends at least
24 hours within 100 feet of it The head maintains this
link until claimed by or given to another owner The
head can activate itself normally to cast a spell stored
by its spell storing function.
A minor brazen head can serve as a spellcaster's
familiar if the master has Improved Familiar and an
arcane caster level of at least 5th The head has hardness
of 5 which improves instead of natural armor as its bonded spellcaster gains levels As an intelligent item,
it has base saving throw modifiers of +4 for all saving throws and no class skills The head's ability to deliver touch spells does not allow the head to move Instead, the head holds the spell until touched by a valid target for the spell, at which point the spell is automatically
delivered When bonded as a familiar, the brazen
head can cast the following spells 1/day each— doom
(DC 12), hold person (DC 13), summon monster II A spellcaster with a minor brazen head familiar can cast contact other plane once per week with a command word while in contact with the minor brazen head to
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CO N S T R U C T I O N
Cost 2,600 gp; Requirements Craft Wondrous Item or Improved Familiar, contact other plane, doom, hold person, imbue with spell ability, summon monster II
BRAZEN HEAD Aura moderate evocation; CL 7th; Slot none; Price 23,000 gp; Weight 15 lbs.
Alignment chaotic neutral; Senses 30 ft., darkvision; Int 10; Wis 18; Cha 10; Ego 8; Languages speech (Aklo,
Common, three others)
This half-scale brass bust functions as a minor brazen
head except that it can store up to 2 levels of spells and
it is a more skilled and potent familiar
A brazen head has 10 ranks in Profession
(Yog-Sothothery philosopher), for a bonus of +14 It can only bond with an arcane spellcaster of at least 9th level that has the Improved Familiar feat Its base saving throw bonuses are each +5 Its familiar spell DCs are 3 higher
than the minor brazen head due to higher Wisdom.
CO N S T R U C T I O N
Cost 11,500 gp; Requirements Craft Wondrous Item
or Improved Familiar, contact other plane, doom, hold person, imbue with spell ability, summon monster II