A gold butter lamp
Revealing Light
Tags: magical, beautiful, reach, area
An oversized, highly decorated lamp, shaped like a chalice with a wide cup, like those lamps they use up north to burn mammoth-butter in their rituals.
It's worth a fortune (Value 4), but there's more to this lamp than meets the eye.
To unlock it, you must:
- consult with a disciple of the Rime Lords (or one of their troves of lore) to learn the recipe and mantra that makes the lamp work;
- acquire the special ingredients for the clarified mammoth-butter to be burned in the lamp (Value 1);
- risk drawing the attention of one or more wraiths when you first light the lamp and utter the incantation.
Revealing Light
When you spend a day preparing the special ingredients (Value 1) according to the secret recipe, you create a jar of magic butter (☐ ☐ ☐ hours).
When you light the lamp using the magic butter and intone the mantra, the lamp gives off a pale, heatless light so long as you continue to chant. Within this light:
- Active spirits are visible, even if they are not manifest
- Illusions, glamours, and veils are stripped away
- Shapechangers can be seen for what they truly are
- Hidden things radiate a bright aura
- Lies spoken are visible as black smoke that lingers near the ground
Alas, the light draws the ire of any wraiths (or other hungry undead spirits) nearby.