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Trinkets, Valuable, 5: More useful than simple baubles touched mystery, these items have either a clear purpose, a reliable ability or are made from a fairly costly material. The items could fetch fair prices to collectors of the strange, jewelers, antique or art dealers or simply to barter with if the owner is short on actual currency.

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  1. Traveler’s Spellbook: A finely polished oaken staff  (Quarterstaff statistics) that tingles and hums with magical energy. Its upper half is covered in a number of wide flat strips of high grade leather bearing arcane runes that have been carefully tied around the staff and affixed to the wood with small silver nails. The leather strips flutter and rustle of their own accord as if blown about in a light breeze and small colored sparks occasionally leap from one strip to another. Knowledgeable PC’s will recognize this as a functional, if eccentric wizard’s spellbook and know that each strip of leather bears is own spell and is the equivalent to a sheet of paper from a normal spellbook. —Note: It is up to the DM what spells if any are found already inscribed on the leather strips. More strips could be inscribed with spells and affixed to the staff at the same cost of inscribing a new spell into a spellbook.
  2. Face of the Red Virus: A white harlequin mask displaying a feminine face, with black eyebrows, red lips and solid black eyes.  When unattended the mask presents a blank expression, however once donned, the mask’s eyes glow a bright green (Which the bearer can see though perfectly) and the bearer can change the mask’s expression by passing their hand over the mask. The mask then changes to a frozen caricature of a single expression while still retaining the mask’s basic features. The bearer can choose to have the mask display a set of squarish white human teeth or a set of long needle-like fangs depending on if he wishes the expression to be conforming or terrifying.
  3. Grandmother’s Legacy: A set of bone crochet hooks that grant the bearer the ability to crochet proficiently, as if they had been doing it all of their lives. The bones look strangely humanoid and using the hooks gives the user strange feelings of déjà-vu and strange memories akin to half forgotten dreams. These quasi memories include: crocheting in a circle of old women gossiping about their lives, in front of a roaring fire with grandchildren playing at your feet and giving your handiwork to your extended family and knowing that your efforts will keep them warm in the cold. A knowledgeable PC will realize that the hooks were made from the bones of an elderly grandmother and imbued with a fraction of her spirit and skill.
  4. A cold iron scroll tube containing a signed parchment, entitling the bearer to one unspecified favor or service from a local fey princeling. Knowledgeable PC’s will know that although the favor doesn’t seen to have a catch or price, nothing is ever truly free with the fey.
  5. Windblown Cape: A black waterproof leather cape that can change color and billow dramatically at its bearer’s whims. The bearer can control the cape mentally, causing it to appear in any single shade of color or to move as if blown by the wind. The bearer can cause the cape to ruffle as if in a light breeze or be blown back as if by a raging wind. The cape creates no actual wind to fuel this effect, it is the fabric itself which has been magically animated.
  6. A worn and battered dog collar with a small metal tag attached to the tarnished buckle. The owner of the collar can call the name of the dog who’s name is etched on the metal tag which summons its lingering spirit. The medium sized mutt will then appear before it’s new owner and want to play. The ghostly dog is visible and tangible to only the owner of the collar and cannot interact with anything else with the exception of a single stick or bone that can be used to play fetch.
  7. Evergreen Totem: A totem carved of pine wood carved in the shape of an evergreen tree, strung on a leather throng. The object constantly emits a scented aura of freshly cut pine in a 15 foot radius. The totem can be worn as a necklace or left in a room to mask unpleasant odors.
  8. An eagle shaped letter opener made of electrum
  9. A heavily embroidered neck pillow. When used, the bearer falls into a heavy sleep and has sweet dreams of childhood
  10. Staff of Walking & Distance Measuring: A sturdy oaken walking staff (Quarterstaff statistics) that imparts the bearer with the exact number of miles they have walked while the staff has been on their person.

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