Dragon's Scale

This large silver scale always feels cold to the touch; a good-hearted person who touches it feels a fleeting sense of safety, protection, and comfort.

Keywords: Magic

Crafting: Cannot be crafted.

Awakened: Your characteristic scores are treated as 1 higher (to a maximum of 2) for the purpose of resisting the potencies of magic abilities. This doesn't stack with the Magic Resistance I imbuement.

Transformed: If you don't use kits, or your armor already has a 5th-level imbuement, you gain 3 ancestry points to spend on purchased dragon knight ancestry traits. If you do use kits, and your armor doesn't already have a 5th-level imbuement, your armor gains the Dragon Soul I imbuement, regardless of your current level.

A hero seeking legacy begins the campaign with the dragon's scale, a large silver scale that always feels cold to the touch. A hero who touches the scale feels a fleeting sense of safety, protection, and comfort. The hero who possesses the dragon's scale should have received the scale from a family member, and should have strong, vivid reasons to believe that the scale will one day unlock the secrets of their heritage.

Unbeknownst to the hero, the dragon's scale formerly belonged to Argynvost, the dragon who founded the Order of the Silver Dragon. The order's headquarters, the mansion of Argynvostholt, can be found in Barovia.

Developments.

• In Arc A - Escape From Death House, when it senses the presence of Death House, the scale burns with an icy cold, one end glowing with a bright, silver light in the direction of the house. While the scale glows in this way, a hero who touches it feels a deep sense of longing, loss, and hope.
• When the hero first encounters Argynvost's shadow in the foyer of Argynvostholt in Arc M - The Dragon's Manor, the scale briefly burns cold in the same way that it did upon sensing Death House. Each time the hero approaches a manifestation of Argynvost's spirit, the scale burns cold, glows with a bright, silver light in the direction of the manifestation, and becomes awakened.
• If the hero helps to retrieve Argynvost's skull and restore it to his crypt in Arc Q - A Shining Beacon, Argynvost's spirit greets the hero warmly, naming them his heir to the legacy of the Order of the Silver Dragon before lighting the beacon of Argynvostholt. The scale becomes transformed.