[Rise of the Kaiju] Spectral Heartcage (Patreon)

Spectral Heartcage

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

Component: Undead (bakekujira) bone

To those who have taken from the sea in excess, starving it of its natural resources, the vengeful bakekujira offers punishment. They shall be forced to give back—with their shrivelled hearts beating in spectral cages until all dues have been paid in full.

Harvest the Fallen. As an action while wearing this amulet, you can touch a corpse belonging to a creature of CR 1 or higher that has a heart and has been dead for no longer than 10 minutes, speaking the amulet’s command word. The corpse’s heart magically shrinks and appears within the ribcage of the amulet, where it begins beating at a slow, eerie pace. The amulet can only contain one heart at a time. Each day at dawn, any heart in the amulet turns to ash and is destroyed.

Heartache. While you have half of your maximum hit points or fewer and are wearing this amulet with a heart in it, the heartbeat picks up, responding to your pain and inflicting it upon your foes. Each time a creature hits you with an attack, it takes 1d6 necrotic damage.

Heartbreak. When you are hit by an attack while wearing this amulet with a heart in it, you can use your reaction to shatter the heart, destroying it and releasing a pulse of necrotic energy. Each creature within 10 feet of you must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 4d6 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

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Uncommon variant: Reduce the DC to 13, the damage of the Heartache property to 1d4, and the damage of the Heartbreak property to 2d6.

Very rare variant: Increase the DC to 16, the damage of the Heartache property to 1d8, and the damage of the Heartbreak property to 5d6.

Legendary variant: Increase the DC to 17, the damage of the Heartache property to 1d10, and the damage of the Heartbreak property to 5d6. The item has the Resuscitation property.

Resuscitation. When you are reduced to 0 hit points as a result of taking damage while wearing this amulet with a heart in it, the heart shatters as per the Heartbreak property, and you regain hit points equal to the necrotic damage dealt to any one creature. Once this property of the amulet has been used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.

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