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Leviathan Leathers

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

Component: Aberration tentacle

This ghostly set of a duster coat and matching hat is bound to the soul of the madness-inducing sea creature from which it was made. Phantasmal tentacles swirl from beneath the hem, intimidating your foes and making your skin feel weirdly damp and clammy.

One with the Deep. As a bonus action while wearing this item, you can unleash the power of the phantom leviathan for 1 minute or until you fall unconscious, causing ghostly tentacles to extend from beneath the coat and lift you off the ground. While in this form, your walking speed increases by 10 feet, you can breathe underwater, and you gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed. When a creature starts its turn within 10 feet of you while in this form, you can force it to make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, it becomes frightened of you until the start of its next turn. If a creature’s saving throw is successful or the effect ends on it, the creature becomes immune to this effect for 1 minute. Once this property of the item has been used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.

Beckoning Abyss. As an action while wearing this item, you can extend a ghostly tentacle from the coat to make a melee weapon attack with it against a creature within 10 feet of you. You are considered proficient with the tentacle, which uses your Strength modifier for its attack and damage rolls. On a hit, the target takes 3d8 necrotic damage and is pulled 5 feet towards you. If the target is frightened of you, it takes an additional 1d10 psychic damage.

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Uncommon variant: Reduce the DC to 13. Creatures within 10 feet of you make the saving throw against being frightened when you activate the One with the Deep property, instead of at the start of their turns.

Very rare variant: Increase the DC to 16, and the damage of the Beckoning Abyss property to 3d10 necrotic damage and 2d10 psychic damage.

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