Staff of Winter

Staff of Winter
Magic Item [Very Rare, Cold]
Rank: 3 (Potency 30)
Description: An ironshod staff that feels slightly cool to the touch when held.
Properties
  • +1 Item bonus to Arcana.
  • You gain the use of the following spells, which may be cast at Eldritch Rank 3 or your rank, whichever is higher. You may use Mastered Augments for the Spells at the your [Eldritch Rank - 1]. Casting Times of these spells are converted to Focus Times and they no longer require Verbal, Somatic, or Material components. The cost and recovery times for each spell remain unchanged.

    Additionally, if you already have one or more of these spell mastered, you may instead cast those spells with a +1 item bonus to Eldritch Rank.

Allocation: 3 Resolve
Aura: Weak Enchantment
"It’s cold out there, that’s true. But if you don’t leave my dwelling immediately, the Tundra is going to seem like the inside of a roiling volcano by the time I’m done with you."
——Wendilin Ice, Mistress of Frost

Description

Crafted from petrified pine trees, and magically treated with thin layers of unbreakable ice, this crude looking wooden staff is adorned with a variety of tokens of the tundra. Frozen rodent skulls, iced over bird feathers and other tribal knick-knacks create the appearance of a primitive magic weapon.

Lore

This staff was made as a gift from a barbarian shaman to an encroaching tribe of Frost Giants. Normally, most would have expected them to take the staff and crush the barbarian tribe without a second thought, but the Jarl of the giant clan recognized the possible gain of allying with a people capable of crafting such items. The gift was accepted, and the tribe was in turn gifted with the corpse of a massive whale, providing food for a feast unlike any they had ever seen before, cementing an alliance that would dominate the frozen north for centuries.