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 AMATIVE PEARL
Level: 4
Form: Opaline oil
By spreading this over the skin
of you and someone you are
sleeping with, in love with, or
otherwise passionate about,
you create a connection that
stretches through space and
time. The two of you have a
lasting telepathic connection
(up to a mile) that ends the
next time the two of you are
intimate in some fashion.
Color: Blue
CANDLE EYE
Level: 4
Form: Plain wax candle
If you inscribe your name
or symbol in the wax of
this candle, whenever and
wherever it burns, you can
see (but not hear or use any
other sense) as if you stood
where the candle does. The
candle can be snuffed and
relit—just like a normal
candle—and has a total burn
time of about eight hours.
Color: Blue
ASEMIC PEN
Level: 6 (+1 die)
Form: White pen
You write with this pen, scribing
what appears to be about 17 words,
although they are in fact nonsense.
The viewer reads in the “words”
you’ve made whatever you wish
them to read, although the details
are known to them, not to you. They
read what they believe they should.
Tell someone it’s a note from their
lover and they will see words to that
effect, perhaps referring to a secret
in-joke only the two of them share.
For as long as the effect lasts, you can
show what you’ve written to different
people and compel them to see
different things.
Depletion: 0 (check each round)
Color: Grey
CLOCK POWDER
Level: 9
Form: White powder
This is powdered time. When
you inhale it, you gain three
extra rounds. You can use
them at any time before
the next sunset. They
do not need to be used
consecutively—you can
spread out their use as long
as you use them before the
effect ends.
Color: Blue
collectors don’t care about the secret inside; the cocoon itself is
BEETLE BULLETS BESHELA’S
Level: 4 (+1 die) MASQUERADE
Form: Blue-black beetle Level: 4
Form: Elegant, oversized mask
When loaded into a pistol or rifle,
this living beetle functions like When hung in the air, the mask
a bullet except that it burrows floats at your eye level and
answers three questions. Two
into whatever it strikes,
inflicting 4 more points of answers are always true, and
damage on the following one is a lie.
Color: Indigo
round. You must keep the
beetle fed and alive for it to
function.
Color: Red
Beetle bullets are typically found in groups
Beshela was once the most glamorous of all angels.
of three or more. Most people keep them
Beshela is a mysterious figure that no one has ever seen.
in a small container where they can live
This ephemera object is not actually named after Beshela.
somewhat comfortably, like a cigar box.
COCOON OF THE COIL OF CHAOS
EVERMOTH Level: 3
Level: 3
Form: Small glass cocoon Form: Ceramic snake biting
Whisper a secret into the glass cocoon and it will
remain safely out of your head, potentially its own tail
protecting it from prying minds, overly
interested parties, and your own failings
The next spell you cast
to keep it hidden. You will remember that disrupts the area, making
there’s a secret in the cocoon, but you won’t
remember its details. Should you wish to have it seem as though someone
your secret back, you can swallow the cocoon
whole (this trick only works for those who (or something) else that
have put their secret into the cocoon; you can’t
learn someone else’s secret by swallowing
you designate cast the spell
their cocoon). Breaking the glass cocoon instead of you.
releases a dozen rainbow-hued moths, each of
which carries one part of your secret written If you are an Apostate, this
upon its wings.
Color: Indigo
works for the next two
spells you cast instead of
Cocoon collectors will pay well for the cocoons of certain
people with high standing or interesting lives. Oddly, these
just one.
Color: Grey
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 COLLOCATION
POWDER
Level: 4 (+1 die)
Form: Pinch of blue powder
If you sprinkle this powder on
another person, chance will
dictate that you meet that person
frequently. Typically, the “chance”
meetings will occur at minimum
once per day, but circumstances
may cause this to vary somewhat,
and overwhelming circumstances
(one of you locked in a jail cell
or teleporting to a completely
different realm, for example) may
ruin the effect.
Depletion: 0 (check each day)
Color: Gold
ELIXIR OF NIGHT
Level: 7
Form: Dark grey potion
For one week (seven days and
nights), you exist only at
night. While the sun is in
the sky, you do not exist.
Obviously, you cannot take
actions during this time,
but neither can you be
found, affected by any force,
and so on.
Depletion: Ends automatically
on the seventh sunrise
Color: Pale
CRYSTAL TREE
Level: 5
Form: Tree that is 3 inches
(7.5 cm) tall and made of
crystal glowing from within
You establish a bond with a
tree you touch so that when
you wish it, you can see and
hear in your mind’s eye as
if you were standing next to
the tree, regardless of how
far away you are.
Depletion: 0–2
(check each day)
Color: Indigo
FALSE FRONT
Level: 6 (+1 die)
Form: Circle of paper the size of a
human face
You draw the face of a person you know
upon the circle. It doesn’t have to
resemble the person in any way, as
long as you are thinking of them
while you draw it. If you attach the
drawing to your face in some way,
you “become” the person you’ve
drawn, projecting an illusion of near
perfection, from your hair down to
the soles of your feet. To anyone you
interact with, you seem to walk like
the person, talk like them, and know
things they would know (you don’t,
however; that’s the illusion talking).
Depletion: 0 (check each round)
Color: Grey
FLUID KNIFE
Level: 5
Form: Simple knife with a
blade that is always wet
You can slice into a body of
water and create a trough
up to 10 feet (3 m) deep, up
to 5 feet (1.5 m) wide, and
up to 100 feet (30 m) long.
Other liquids can be affected
by the knife as well.
Depletion: 0–4
(check each hour)
Color: Gold
FEROCIENT SMILE
Level: 9 (+2 dice)
Form: Red paste
Brushing this paste across your
teeth causes them to grow
into long, sharp knives. To
accommodate this growth,
your jaw unhinges and your
mouth becomes supernaturally
large. Your appearance causes
all beings within long range
to attempt to run away in fear.
Should you manage to catch
one, you inflict 10 damage
with a single bite.
Depletion: 0
(check each round)
Color: Red
DELIBERATE
TENTACLE
Level: 15 (+3 dice)
Form: Coiled tentacle from an ociram
If you touch this tentacle to a person, it
becomes permanently attached, causing
them to become obsessed with cutting
off their own limbs, to the distraction
and detriment of all other activities.
(All actions suffer a −1 penalty.) If they
succeed in removing a limb, they take 9
points of damage (per limb).
Color: Blue
Ociram are bioluminescent tetrapods that live only in the
Lake of Lost Tongues. Each year they shed one tentacle,
which grows back within a few days.
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The Lake of Lost Tongues, page 42
FIERY BONE
Level: 2
Form: Small bone with a large
match-head on the end
If you strike this like a match
and use it like a candle
or other flame, ghosts
and other dead spirits are
always visible in the light
produced.
Depletion: Ends automatically
when the sun next rises
Color: Indigo
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THEIR FLESH
Level: 6
Form: Bit of skin from a
roachgoblin, dried and
properly seasoned
Eating this bit of skin causes
you to become terrified of
light. As long as you stay in
darkness, you can see as if it
were daylight, and you gain +2
to any action involving hiding
or sneaking. The effect ends
when you enter light or when
the sun next rises.
Color: Grey
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HARASSING FIBULA
Level: 3
Form: Bejeweled brooch in the shape of
a dragon
When placed upon someone’s clothing
(pinned to a lapel, dropped into a
pocket, and so on), the brooch activates
and begins to listen. As soon as the
person wearing the clothing attempts
to use magic that might harm another
being, the dragon screams obscenities,
harassing the wearer to the point that
they are unable to cast the magic.
Once activated, the effect doesn’t end
if the wearer takes off the clothing or
removes the brooch. The effect ends if
the brooch is destroyed or is more than
a very long distance from the wearer.
Color: Blue
FLESHLESS DENIAL
Level: 8 (+2 dice)
Form: Grey, syrupy potion (poison)
You cannot touch the flesh of a
living creature—your form passes
through it as if it were not there.
While this renders you immune
to attacks by a tiger’s claw or the
punch of a drunken bar patron
(but not a knife or a spell), you
also cannot know the touch of
a loved one. In this state, you
cannot use touch spells on other
creatures, nor can they use them
on you. This lasts until the effect is
removed, like a curse.
Color: Gold
HATRED POTION
Level: 3
Form: Black potion
You learn the name of the
being who hates you the
most.
Color: Blue
Some think of this potion as a poison.
THE GOLDEN
TURNKEY
Level: 7
Form: Jawbone of a moon fox
You can whisper the words of an
incantation that you currently know
to the jawbone, which morphs into a
small, ornate key. If you put the key
into any lock and twist it, the stored
incantation takes effect. Alternatively,
you may pass the key (and thus the
incantation) to someone else. An
incantation saved within a Golden
Turnkey doesn’t count against your
ephemera limit.
Color: Gold
This is closely related to the Scarlet Turnkey,
and sometimes they are difficult to tell apart.
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Moon fox, page 131
HOARY STONE
Level: 7 (+1 die)
Form: Silver-grey madstone
You touch this to a creature,
and the creature takes on the
aspect of a very old version of
themselves. They gain 3 vex
in all Certes pools (if a PC)
or a −3 penalty to all physical
actions (if an NPC). Their body
shrivels and weakens, wrinkles
and greys (as appropriate).
Depletion: 0
(check each round)
Color: Red
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GREEN’S GENESIS
Level: 8
Form: Packet of seeds
You sprinkle the seeds, and from
them a forest of immense size and
magnitude instantly grows to fill
a large area. The seeds don’t need
to be cast upon fertile ground to
grow, they may grow vertically
or horizontally, and they don’t
need access to sunlight or water.
The forest is permanent but does
not change or continue to grow
(unless deliberately altered) and
likely cannot support additional
life (such as birds or other natural
creatures).
Color: Green
THE HOUR OF
YOUR DEATH
Level: 13
Form: Hourglass filled with crimson salt
You flip the hourglass and are instantly
overwhelmed with the knowledge that
life is not as long as you believed and
that death’s hand is coming for you. You
feel as though you must accomplish
something tremendous and important
before you go. For one hour, you gain a
+4 bonus and +4 dice enhancement on
all actions that strive toward achieving
this goal—whether it be to paint a
masterpiece, slay a longtime foe, garner
the forgiveness of a lover, or something
else entirely.
As the final piece of sand falls through the
glass, you die.
Color: Green
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CONTRACT
Level: 7
Form: Blank sheet of paper
If you are a Goetic, this contract allows
your next summoning to conjure a devil
3 levels higher than your maximum
with no increase in challenge. However,
in order to complete the colloquy, you
must sign the contract, in which you
promise to commit one action the devil
asks of you in addition to any other
stipulations or requirements involved in
the colloquy.
If you are not a Goetic, if you sign this
contract a level 5 devil appears and
commands you to perform a task.
In return it will perform one service
for you, as long as the service can be
completed within an hour and does not
require the devil to travel more than 1
mile (1.5 km).
Color: Pale
LIQUID ANTIMAGIC
Level: 12 (+3 dice)
Form: Orange-red potion (poison)
After drinking this potion, you
cannot use magical practices. You
can’t cast spells or incantations,
use forte abilities, or activate
magical objects. Known as vislae
death, the effects of this poison
can be ended only if an artifact of
at least level 9 is destroyed and the
pieces are used (by someone else,
on the victim’s behalf ) as part of
Beseech, Call Upon the Legacy,
Imprimatur, Vicissitude, or a
similar invocation.
Color: Gold
JACINTHE INTONING
STONE
Level: 2
Form: Orange madstone
When activated, the stone
records the next round’s
worth of sound and then
repeats that sound at the
same volume every round
thereafter.
Depletion: Ends when the
sun next sets
Color: Gold
LOVE’S PATH
Level: 3 (+1 die)
Form: Red velvet paper rolled
into a scroll
Touch the scroll to another
person, and when you
unroll it, it will reveal one
of their truest desires. You
don’t choose the desire that
is written on the paper.
If the person’s desire is
achieved at any point, the
paper bursts into a flock of
bright red butterflies.
Color: Blue
KING OF WHAT’S
LEFT
Level: 2
Form: Triangular card
You burn the card, which releases
a memory that you had forgotten
(or details about a memory that
you vaguely remember). You can
guide the card to which memory
you’d like it to show you, but it
may not listen.
The memory plays out in the form
of shadows on the nearest wall.
You can speed up or slow down
the memory as you desire, but it
appears only once.
Color: Blue
MACROSMATIA
Level: 4
Form: Powdered leaves
The sense of smell of anyone
inhaling this powder
becomes so strong and
so acute that they gain 5
bene to their Perception,
assuming they use their
nose as part of each
perception attempt.
Color: Gold
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LIGATURE
Level: 4
Form: Two knots on a silk string
If two people each untie one of
the knots while simultaneously
concentrating on each other, they
slip into a comfortable, quiet pocket
of time and space that includes only
the two of them. While they’re in
the pocket, their greatest passions
and sexual desires become known
to each other. When the pocket
depletes, the two people are
returned to where they started, as
if no time had passed.
Depletion: 0–7 (check each hour)
Color: Blue
MACULATION
POISON
Level: 5 (+1 die)
Form: Clear liquid (poison)
Anyone imbibing this poison
becomes tainted and impure
in the sight of angels or similar
beings. Nothing can convince
them to interact peacefully
or pleasantly with the victim.
They most likely flee in
disgust, but if it suits their
nature, they might attack the
impure being.
Depletion: 0
(check each hour)
Color: Grey
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TRAVELER
Level: 2
Form: Oiled facemask
You unfold the facemask and
place it upon your face. As
the oil absorbs into your skin,
you untether from your body,
which allows your spirit to
travel to another place that you
choose. While there, you’re
able to see, hear, and otherwise
experience anything that
occurs, but no one else can
discern your presence.
Depletion: 0
(check each hour)
Color: Blue
QUARRELOUS QUIRE
Level: 4 (+1 die)
Form: Red book with ornate gold
binding
By opening the book, you activate
its natural inclination, which
is to argue convincingly and
passionately about any number
of inane and useless (but likely
inflammatory) topics. It is so
engaging that it affects one
person you choose in short
range who can hear it, causing
them to argue with the book
instead of taking any other
action.
Depletion: 0–1(check each round)
Color: Blue
OBSCENE CHIMENEA
Level: 3 (+1 die)
Form: Miniature fireplace
Lighting a fire in the mouth
of the chimenea causes it to
begin screaming obscenities
in a shrill, high-pitched voice.
Every being within short
range (excluding you) can
do nothing except use their
action to cover their ears or
otherwise attempt to block
the sound.
Depletion: 0
(check every round)
Color: Blue
RECRUDESCENCE
Level: 6 (+1 die)
Form: Silver amulet
If a negative ongoing effect
that you cast upon or
otherwise bequeathed upon
someone ends but they are
still within long range, you
can make the effect take
hold again. This is true of
an effect that depletes or
one that has been alleviated
or cured in some way. The
original effect must be level
6 or lower.
Color: Red
POWDERED HOLE
Level: 3
Form: Vial with green powder
When spilled upon the
natural ground, the powder
eats away at the earth,
almost instantly creating
a hole up to 5 feet (1.5 m)
wide and 10 feet (3 m) deep.
Color: Gold
THE SCARLET
TURNKEY
Level: 8
Form: Jawbone of a moon fox
Touch this to a vislae, and if they currently
know at least one incantation, the
jawbone steals it and then morphs into
a small, ornate key. If you put the key
into any lock and twist it, the stored
incantation takes effect. Alternatively,
you may pass the key (and thus the
incantation) to someone else. An
incantation saved within a Scarlet
Turnkey doesn’t count against your
ephemera limit.
Color: Gold
This is closely related to the Golden Turnkey,
and sometimes they are difficult to tell apart.
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PUFFED TENTACLE
OF BREATH
Level: 3 (+1 die)
Form: Hand-rolled cigarillo of emotion
leaves
When you smoke this and exhale into
the face of another being close to you
(excluding yourself ), a long tendril
of steam reaches out and projects
the emotion of the leaves onto them
for the next few minutes. If you find
or purchase this item, you typically
don’t know the emotion you are
distributing ahead of time, so Puffed
Tentacles of Breath are almost always
a gamble.
Color: Blue
Tent puffs, as they’re sometimes called, are a
popular pastime at parties, bars, and street
carnivals. Money passes hands. Someone gets
hurt. And someone falls in love with a stranger.
A good time is had by some.
SEPTEMBER FLASK
Level: 2
Form: Green flask containing
a brownish-orange syrup
When the syrup is dripped
upon the ground, a
cold wind blows, the
temperature drops 10
degrees, and the leaves of
plants turn brown. This
occurs in a medium area.
Depletion: Ends automatically
when the sun next rises
Color: Gold
For the purposes of long-form practices like
Autumn’s Heralds, an area affected by the
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 SPIDER’S HAT
Level: 4
Form: Black top hat
You call a very large spider to come
out of a secret hatch in the hat and
rapidly weave a web that can take
one of three forms you choose:
✦ Barrier: If there are anchor
points, the web wall stretches
up to 12 feet (3.5 m) in diameter
✦ Armor: You are covered in silken
strands that provide +1 Armor
✦ Ladder: A rope-like ladder
stretches up to 100 feet (30 m)
When it is done, the spider disappears
back into the hat forever.
Depletion: 0–1 (check each hour)
Color: Silver
TALENT THIEF
Level: 7 (+1 die)
Form: Small gold coin with a star cut from
the middle
Holding this coin to your eye, you watch
someone else perform a task or use an
artistic or mental skill that you wish
to emulate, such as painting, doing
complex math, or designing clothing.
After watching for ten minutes,
you garner a deep (but temporary)
understanding of their talent. You gain
+3 on all actions involving that talent.
Additionally, for the next hour, the person
you watched feels as though they’ve
suddenly forgotten much of what they
know. (If a PC, all actions involving the
talent have 1 scourge; if an NPC, the
target is 1 level lower.)
Depletion: 0–5 (check each hour)
Color: Blue
SLIVERED
CACOPHONY
Level: 5 (+1 die)
Form: Shard of a mirror
Anyone who looks into the mirror’s shard
sees themselves being ripped to shreds
by six long-clawed horrors of shadow
and hanging meat. Unable to look away,
the viewer watches their death play out
at the mercy of these beings, certain
that this is how they will die. The viewer
suffers 1 Anguish and becomes obsessed
with these beings. And deathly afraid of
mirrors.
Once the scene is played out, the mirror
shard blackens, taking on the appearance
of an ebony claw.
Color: Blue
It is terribly easy—and terribly dangerous—to
mix up the Slivered Cacophony and the
Slivered Ecstasy. For this reason, many vislae
refuse to have more than one slivered anything
on them at any given time.
TRAPPED KERCHIEF
Level: 5 (+1 die)
Form: White handkerchief
When laid upon the ground,
the kerchief becomes
invisible. While the effect is
active, if anyone—including
you—treads upon the
ground in a small area
around the kerchief, they
suffer 5 points of damage
and lose their next turn.
Once so triggered, the
kerchief disappears, along
with the trap.
Color: Grey
SLIVERED ECSTASY SONG OF THE
Level: 7 (+1 die) SWARMWOLF
Form: Shard of a mirror Level: 8 (+2 dice)
Anyone who looks into the mirror’s
Form: Sheet music
shard sees themselves in the You perform the song on the
moment of their greatest pleasure. sheet music—singing, playing,
Unwilling to look away, they
or otherwise creating the
watch their ecstasy play out in
the most glorious and perfect of
melody—and summon a
experiences. The viewer restores swarmwolf from the Red. It
fights beside you for three
three of their Qualia pools to full.
Once the scene is played out, the rounds, acting on your turn
shard turns opalescent and and doing as you ask (within
shimmery, not unlike a pearl. its ability to do so). After three
Color: Blue
rounds, it disappears, leaving
behind the sound of buzzing.
It is terribly easy—and terribly dangerous—to
Color: Red
mix up the Slivered Cacophony and the
Slivered Ecstasy. For this reason, many vislae
refuse to have more than one slivered anything
THE PATH
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UNBROKEN BENISON UNEVEN CUBE
Level: 5
Level: 5
Form: Chain of metal words split Form: Imperfect black stone
into three pieces
Putting the pieces of the benison
cube about 1 inch (2.5 cm)
across
together in the correct order
allows you to cast a single You speak an incantation into
spell that you know and store
this cube, and afterward
it within the words. The spell anyone possessing it can
doesn’t take effect—it goes
cast the incantation—even
into the benison. You may
then pass the benison to a non-vislae. The cube
someone else, who can cast holds the incantation
the spell by splitting the words indefinitely, so it lasts until
apart. It functions entirely as if it is cast, but it counts as an
cast by them. ephemera object.
Color: Gold
Color: Blue
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 UNMASKING FLUTE
Level: 7 (+1 die)
Form: Silver and gold flute
You play this flute and instantly
the notes reveal all close
beings for what they truly
are: illusions and glamours
are dispelled, disguises are
foiled, forms altered from
the original are revealed,
and the veil of invisibility is
lifted from hidden or unseen
beings. Beings and effects of a
level greater than the flute are
immune.
Color: Indigo
WANTON STORM
Level: 5
Form: Miniature rainstorm
inside a vial
This object must be used inside
a closed structure. When the
vial is opened, it begins to
rain, coating everyone in the
space with a pale blue liquid.
Every person in the area feels
an intense longing for human
touch. Those who don’t satiate
the need gain 1 vex to their
Interaction pool.
Depletion: 0–4
(check each hour)
Color: Silver
WATCHWEED
Level: 6
Form: Dried leaves
If you smoke the leaves in a pipe or
similar device and inhale, you can
exhale a vast quantity of smoke,
enough to fill a very large area. For
one round, vision is impossible
in that area, and then the smoke
clears. However, you can create
a visual illusion in any spot that
the smoke touched. This illusion
can cover what is actually there,
or supplement it. If you are in
the area, you can use an action to
change the illusion dramatically
or subtly, perhaps to maintain its
believability.
Depletion: 0 (check each hour)
Color: Grey
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WICKED KEYHOLE
Level: 11
Form: Talisman of gold with
a keyhole in the center
If you use a wicked key in
the keyhole, both key and
talisman disappear, and a
doorway opens to any place
in the Actuality you wish—
even a location that should
be impossible to reach. The
doorway remains open as
long as you wish, although
it will always close when
the sun next sets.
Color: Green