Recently another blogger who's content I love laid down the gauntlet by sending me a challenge, roll on the table found on d4 Caltrops blog and making a post about whatever I rolled. So here we are, posting on a sunday instead of the usual Tuesday and Thursday because of Buster over on 19 Sided Die! That mad lad is making this a challenge to do all 100 topics. I might follow suit as an occasional Sunday special as a way to keep the energy from the weekly Saturday night game.
Rolled d100: Result 10
Describe Expensive Jewelry one might find in a dragon's hoard
In Hodas the dragons have been sleeping for an exceptionally long time. The dragons ruled the world unchallenged for thousands of years. They enslaved the "lesser" races such as humans, giants, minotaur, and featherfolk. Only the mountainborn remained free, pockets of resistance that were too remote for the dragons to care about. Likewise, the Furies were not in the world yet, they had yet to look down from their sky citadels in curiosity. The kobolds had not come to the surface world yet.
To keep the story brief, Humans lead a rebellion against the dragons by organizing the giants and striking back. With nearly 90% of their numbers wiped out the dragons decided it would be better to retreat and simply wait for the rebellion to burn itself down in a few thousand years. This post isn't about that rebellion or how humans rose and fell after that. Its about the dragons!
Naturally as a result of this disappearance thousands of years ago if one can even find one of the few remaining dragons or their hoard you're no doubt going to find items older than the oldest living man, possibly older than the living memory of dwarves. These are art pieces that are unbelievably ancient, some of them showing signs of craft long lost to history.
Irizoxas' Gift
This locket is made of rose colored gold and set with a turquoise stone on the front. the clasp is still functional. inside are a pair of preserved lifelike sketches of human women.
GP Value: 1500
This locket belongs to Irizoxas The Moon Gaze, a Dragon who, during the days of their kind's rule always had his eyes skyward at night, watching the 4 moons of Hodas. Believing that they could reveal the future in their dance across the night sky. Irizoxas was not present when the rebellions began, perhaps he had advanced warning.
The locket itself is extremely intricate, the carving on the gold are of such fine detail one must have extremely sharp eyes or a magnifying glass to see the finest of details. The piece of turquoise almost seems out of place here, a simple hunk of polished stone set into the face of the locket is the key to opening it, by depressing it the latch on the inside is released.
Wearing this locket causes the wearer to roll at +1d when attempting to use non-magical means to calm other humanoids.
If Irizoxas is not dead then he is aware of the missing locket from his horde and will hunt for the thief and the current bearer until he is made whole. The subjects of the sketches are his two favorite servants, who he showered with gifts and treated as pets.
The Grand Rings
This is a gold bracelet set with alternating stones of spinel and Jade clearly made by dwarven hands.
GP value: 800
This bracelet lays in the horde of Thriinathavochan The Grand. A dragon who ruled among the highest counsels of the empire of dragons. Thriinathavochan was mortally injured by giants in the rebellion and flew off, escaping to the secrecy of her horde, her final moments of life were on her horde and among her clutch of eggs. Should her secret lair be found, her eggs are even harder to locate, blending into the architecture of her lair. around her lair has grown into it's own hostile ecosystem, life has sprung from her corpse, leaving only bones in which monsters live among.
This bracelet was part of a collection of bracelets given to Thriinathavochan, worn by her as rings on her claws. The collection was a form of tribute from the dwarves who lived under the hills of her lands, begrudgingly given to her. The designs of them are distinctly dwarven and any dwarf could recognize this as dwarven work but there are exceptionally few living dwarves who could identify the makers mark on the inside of the bands.
When worn together with the 7 identical bracelets the wearer gains +1 to their AC and may cast magic missile and magic shield at the 12-13 level of success at will, as often as once each round.
Silver horns of The Sky Scourge
These massive pieces of silver are hollow on the inside, worn by Morrosuth The Sky Scourge. They are worn at the ends of his own horns as ornamentation and to hide his disfiguration. In human hands they are large enough to require two hands to hold, similar in size to a small child.
GP Value: 2500
These caps were crafted for Morrosuth in order to hide a disfigurement he gained in a battle with the ancient furies as he attempted an assault on one of their sky citadels. The horns are more like caps that are placed on the ends of his horns, hollow on the inside. They were commissioned in secret, a request handled by one of the only other long lived people that dragons respected, elves. The carving on the outside of these are intricate and blend seamlessly into the pattern on Morrosuth's own horns, giving the appearance of the horns simply turning into silver at a certain point.
Should a PC think to melt these down or fashion a weapon, tool, or armor from the silver they will find that this silver is unusual, having properties similar to the legendary elven mithril, allowing it to make for excellent weapons and armor with the same weight and penalty as steel.
Followup:
I wanted to detail some items with some history to them, the PCs might never know that history but the world might and releasing something like these items into the world can have repercussions, for better or for worse. What happens when someone learns that the PCs are carrying something worth these extreme amounts? how do they even sell it? what if the dwarves find out about the bracelets? I think these should lead to further adventure or challenge, which is why a history for something so valuable feels important, even if it's only judge facing.
If you like this idea, rolling a d100 and making a post about it, please head on over to d4 Caltrops and roll for yourself. Link me your post in the comments below this post so I can share your post in my next one! head on over and take a look at Buster's post for where I was inspired by!
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