Tenets of Torment (Patreon)

Wondrous item, uncommon

A heavy iron set of manacles with piercing spikes without and within. In the Church of the Iron Thorn, initiates are ritually strung up and tortured for days on end, until they embrace the pain and their chains are forever broken. Every move the wearer makes causes them torment, a way for followers to never forget the teachings of the Bloody Mother.

Trauma Response. While wearing these manacles, as an action you can touch another creature that is poisoned, paralyzed, stunned, or frightened and take on their burden. The creature is no longer affected by one of the listed conditions of your choice, and you must repeat the original saving throw of that condition, becoming affected by the condition yourself on a failed saving throw.

Truth, Pain, Bloodshed; the tenets of our sacred order. We bear this torment to deliver our flock to the Mother’s embrace. May we all be one in suffering, may we take in all that we can bear and more, that the world may know of the Bloody Mother and her teachings forever more.

-The Crimson Tome; Verse 1:1