Phoenix Fan (Patreon)

Wondrous item, rare

This vibrant paper fan bears a gilded phoenix design and fire opals along its wooden clasp. The fan has 4 charges and regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the fan, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it (save DC 15, spell attack bonus +7): fire shield (4 charges), fog cloud (1 charge; the cloud is made of smoke), scorching ray (2 charges), or wall of fire (4 charges). Alternatively, you can use a reaction when you or a creature within 60 feet of you falls to expend 1 of the fan's charges to cast the feather fall spell on up to five falling creatures within range.

You can cast these spells from the fan even if it doesn't have enough charges. When you do, there is a cumulative 20% chance that the fan is destroyed for each spent charge beyond the number of remaining charges in the fan. If the fan is destroyed in this way, the spell fails and the action to cast it is wasted, and the fan is consumed by flame as it turns to ash and is destroyed.

Barbin and his companion ran; their escape routes diminishing. He saw his partner stop from the corner of his eye, and before he could shout for her to keep running, she had already pulled out a gilded, crimson fan.

She blew on its paper, and the air around her quickly filled with choking ash. He assumed that she was attempting to martyr herself, allowing him to escape from the cave.

He was wrong.

From the soot-filled air came a wave of searing flames. The sounds of terrified kobolds cried out from behind the black, beyond Barbin's sight.

Out from the billowing smoke walked his partner, coughing and swatting the smoldering embers from her leathers. Calmly, she picked up the rest of the treasure they'd stolen, and the two of them walked out of the den and into the fresh, forested air.