Pollinator Visor (Patreon)

Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement by a druid or ranger)

This chitinous mask rests over your ears and can be raised or lowered using an action to sit on top of your head or in front of your eyes. The mask has two large, eye-like lenses that improve your vision and allow you to visualize scents. While wearing the mask over your eyes, you gain advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight and smell.

The mask has 3 charges and regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. While wearing the mask over your eyes, you can expend 1 of its charges as an action to cast the animal messenger spell from it, targeting a Tiny insect or similar creature within range, such as a centipede, spider, wasp, or scorpion. When cast in this way, the insect covers about 25 miles per 24 hours for a flying messenger, or 12 miles for other insects.

Beekeeper's Commitment. While you are attuned to three magic items that have this named property, the mask regains all expended charges daily at dawn, instead of 1d3, and gains the following benefit:

Bug. When you use the mask to cast the animal messenger spell, you can direct the insect to surreptitiously follow the spell's recipient for the duration instead. When you do, you must also provide the insect with a trigger word or phrase. When the recipient speaks the trigger word or phrase, the insect magically begins to record the following words spoken by the recipient and any other creature it's speaking to. The insect can record up to 25 total words in this way, or up to 6 second's worth of other sounds. Once it has a recording, you hear it in your mind as the insect magically communicates it to you across any distance, provided that you're on the same plane of existence. The message replicates the sound of any recorded creature's voice. The spell then ends, and the insect makes its way back to where you cast the spell.

The Beekeeper Lady Thestra wouldn't stand for ignorance. She wouldn't allow humanity to willingly ignore the truth any more. Reckless expansion only hurt their future selves, even if they refused to see it. The elves had found a balance of nature and civilization: why couldn't humanity? Were they truly so committed to senselessly sprawl over the Material Plane, with no compassion for the damage they were doing? The pain and disruption they were clearly responsible for? All for the sake of...what? Another town, tavern, or manicured lawn?

No.

These were the signs, as she saw it, of a plague of locusts. Consuming with no concern of their impact. Humanity was the next great disaster, and the only solution was to stamp it out.

She would be the great queen bee, a pollinator of good, working to spread balance through the militant defense of the natural world. Her work would allow the world to heal, thrive, and blossom once more. She would build her own hive to support the like-minded, and together, they would see to it that the blight of humanity's greed would be stopped.

—Manifesto of Lady Thestra, 'The Beekeeper', part 3.