Scroll of the Skyfallen (Patreon)

Scroll, rare

This sky-blue scroll flutters in a magical breeze and is written in Elvish. Faraway clouds can be seen floating in the background of its parchment and magically sputter into existence upon reaching the edge. Miniscule birds soar through the clouds, both on the paper and off.

By using an action to read this scroll, your words ring out to magically rip the wind out from beneath the wings of creatures around you. Any hovering, levitating, or otherwise flying creature within 120 feet of you must make a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw. A flying creature falls to the ground on a failed save, and its flying speed is reduced to 0 for 1 minute. On a successful save, any flying speed it has (or similar means of flight) is halved for 1 minute instead. If the creature was levitating or can hover, the creature safely descends at a rate of 60 feet per round until it reaches the ground instead. A creature with legendary actions is unaffected by the scroll. The scroll then vanishes in a plume of vapor, and is destroyed.

The storm-souled archdruid stood atop his haven in the tempest's heart: a sphere of calm within an abyss of tearing black clouds. Despite the raging winds that protected the sanctum, the harpies had carved their way into it to destroy him.

Grafted with their sickly wings, the hunters circled him warily. He was no simple prey, and they warily readied their arms as the druid quietly sang, reading from a scroll held in aging hands.

The calm air shifted, and its once buoying gusts now seemingly bereft of anything at all. The hunters struggled to stay aloft, like a fish trying to swim without water, but fell out of sight and plummeted down towards the vicious storm once more.

As the druid returned to rest, the harpies' voices fell silent one by one, rent apart by the howling winds.