A length of prayer beads

Cold Mind, Iron Body

Tags: magical, beautiful

A cord almost 10 feet long, strung with bronze beads. Each bead is carved with a different glyph and a figure in a unique meditative pose. If you run your fingers along the beads, you feel a sense of stillness — but also a merciless weight of judgement.

To unlock it, you must:

• decipher the Rime Lord glyphs embossed upon many of the beads;
• learn the meditative chants that accompany the beads (from a trove of knowledge or someone who knows);
• spend a season in isolation, naked and fasting, meditating with the prayer beads, risking illness, accident, and misadventure.

Cold Mind, Iron Body

Preparation: ☐ ☐ ☐

When you Bolster by spending downtime in isolation, fasting, and meditation with the prayer beads, hold Preparation (as per the Bolster move).

While you hold at least 1 Preparation, you require only an hour of sleep each night, can endure cold weather without warm clothing, and need not consume supplies or provisions when traveling or making camp. After about ten days of such hard living, lose 1 Preparation.

Also, you can spend 1 Preparation to:

• Add +1 to any roll, after it is made (maximum +1 per roll)
• Clear a debility, or refuse to mark one
• Perform a feat of extreme endurance
• Ignore harm from a source of elemental energy (fire, cold, lightning, etc.)