Solar Staff (Patreon)

Staff, very rare (requires attunement by a cleric, druid, sorcerer, or wizard)

This staff ends in an open semi-circle at its head. While holding it, you can use a bonus action to cause a floating orb of pure radiance to spring into existence at the center of the half-circle, or to make the orb disappear. The orb sheds bright light in a 15-foot radius and dim light for an additional 15 feet. The light is sunlight.

You can use a bonus action while holding the staff to cause the orb to fly up to 20 feet. If you drop or stow the staff, or if the orb is ever farther than 150 feet away from you, the orb flickers out and disappears.

This staff has 10 charges for the following properties:

Spells. While holding the staff, you can use an action to expend some of its charges to cast either the daylight (2 charges) or sunbeam spell (4 charges) from it, using your spell save DC. Each spell can originate from either you or the orb of light when cast in this way.

Purifying Light. While holding the staff, you can use an action to expend 1 of its charges to cause the orb to glow with a purifying brilliance. Until the start of your next turn, any hostile creature that enters the orb's bright light for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or take 3d6 radiant damage. Undead creatures have disadvantage on the saving throw.

The staff regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge from the staff, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff glows brilliant white before it turns to dust and is destroyed.

Lightkeeper Crane closed the book, day's last breeze rustling their hair. Ascending the amphitheater's outer wall and resting on the arc of their staff, they gazed down to see pallid faces, spawn around a master, fangs bared at Crane.

"Welcome. What seek you among records of the dead?"

Composed, the vampire replied, "You know the secrets we seek."

"No time for pleasantries with an elder?"

"We have all night, aging one. We…"

He was stopped by Crane's serene smile, now lit as an orb appeared on their staff and they said, "You misunderstand this place. It is where the dead rest."

The orb leapt into their midst before the spawn could act, its glow now searing radiance.

The vampire barely evaded what was now a circle of dust, skidding as burning light lanced through his heart.

Night's first wind swept past Crane as they turned their back on ash-strewn silence.