Stone Crest

This flat, round stone engraved with the image of a three-pointed star seems to glimmer with emerald light on nights of the new moon.

Keywords: Magic

Crafting: Cannot be crafted.

Awakened: Up to four willing creatures can touch this stone to attune themselves to it. While holding the stone, an attuned creature can telepathically communicate with attuned creatures on the same world. A creature's attunement to the stone ends when they choose to end it or when they die.

Transformed: You have found harmony with the natural world. You gain the green elementalist's It Is The Soul Which Hears feature, and you gain an edge on tests made to understand or communicate with plants and animals. If you are a green elementalist, you also gain an interpersonal skill and the Thingspeaker perk as you learn to harmonize even with inanimate objects.

A hero seeking harmony begins the campaign with the stone crest, a flat, round stone engraved with the image of a three-pointed star. On the nights of the new moon, the star seems to glimmer with emerald light.

Unbeknownst to the hero, the crest once belonged to a conduit of the Three, in a time before Strahd bound the land to himself; the engravings upon it depict the symbols of the Seeker, the Weaver, and the Huntress. The hero who possesses the stone crest should have strong, vivid reasons to believe that the symbols upon it represent a primal or divine power of harmony and nature, and that the crest can aid them in restoring the sanctity of wild places.

Developments.

• In Arc A - Escape From Death House, when it senses the presence of Death House, the crest emits a low hum and releases a scent of pine needles and earthy soil, which both grow stronger as the hero approaches the house.
• In Arc J - The Stolen Gem, if the hero shows the stone to Kavan, he recognizes it as a symbol of the Three.
• In Arc J - The Stolen Gem, when the heroes retrieve the Martikovs' stolen gem, the stone becomes awakened.
• When the heroes first approach the exterior of Soldav in Arc R - Trials of the Mountain, the stone crest hums and releases a scent of pine needles and earth soil as it did upon sensing Death House, both of which grow stronger as the hero approaches the Shrine of the Three in Soldav.
• In Arc R - Trials of the Mountain, if the hero shows the crest to Elder Burebis, he recognizes it as a symbol of the Three. When the heroes get Elder Burebis's blessing, the crest becomes transformed.