Raven's Feather

This small, black feather with soft, downy barbs seems to gently tremble, exuding the scent of cold rain and damp earth, when held aloft before a storm.

Keywords: Magic

Crafting: Cannot be crafted.

Awakened: While you possess this feather, you can temporarily become airborne, moving as high as 3 squares above the ground from where you started. If you end your turn while you are still airborne, you fall. If you already have the ability to fly, you instead gain the following benefit: when you fall, you can reduce the effective height of that fall by 2.

Transformed: You can fly, and you no longer need to end your turn on the ground to prevent falling. If you already have the ability to fly from some other source, you instead gain the following benefit: whenever you fall, you can unfurl your wings (no action required), slowing your fall and allowing you to glide. While gliding this way, you move downward at 1 square per round, and you can glide up to 6 squares horizontally as a free maneuver once during each of your turns.

A hero seeking freedom begins the campaign with a raven's feather, a small, black feather with soft, downy barbs. When held aloft before a storm, the feather seems to gently tremble, exuding the scent of cold rain and damp earth. The hero who possesses the raven's feather should have strong, vivid reasons to believe that the feather will always guide them to those who need liberation.

Unbeknownst to the hero, the feather once belonged to the roc of Mount Ghakis, a servant of the goddess known as the Seeker, whose Mountain Fane rests in the shadow of Mount Ghakis in Barovia. The roc once enjoyed disguising itself as a common raven, and shed this feather on one such occasion.

Developments.

• In Arc A - Escape From Death House, when the feather senses the presence of Death House, it is swept away by an unseen and violent wind, the scent of rain and ozone filling the air, before eventually landing on the house's threshold.
• If the hero shows the raven's feather to Fravartiš in Arc C - Into the Valley, she inspects it reverently and returns it to the hero, claiming that she once knew the bird that shed it.
• If the hero shows the feather to Urwin Martikov, Danika Nimirovna Dorakova, Muriel Vinshaw, or any other member of the Keepers of the Feather, that member grows warmer and friendlier toward that hero.
• In Arc J - The Stolen Gem, when the heroes break the Gulthias staff and restore the Wizard of Wines winery to the Martikovs, the feather becomes awakened.
• When the hero first enters the circle of standing stones at the Mountain Fane in Arc T - The Three Fanes, the feather trembles and the air around it briefly grows thick with the scent of rain and ozone as it did upon sensing Death House. If the hero shows the feather to the Roc of Mount Ghakis after consecrating the Mountain Fane in the same arc, the roc places the tip of its beak against the hero's forehead as a sign of gratitude and approval before departing; the feather becomes transformed.