Item: Calamity's Bane Tattoo
This small tattoo of a stylized lidded or clouded eye radiating lines of power is inked on a part of your body that you cannot easily see with your own eyes, such as the nape of your neck, behind your ears, or your interscapular region. This tattoo protects you during calamity as well as uncertainty, guiding your intuition to take subconscious actions and precautions to shelter you in a thousand unknown ways. When you are affected by a misfortune effect or a curse, your shrouded eye tattoo emits an intense sensation akin to pins and needles, alerting you that something is awry, though the specific nature of the danger might be unknown to you.
Activate—Alleviate Uncertainty F (concentrate)
Frequency once per 10 minutes
Trigger You make a check for an action that has the secret trait or that has been affected by a misfortune effect
Effect You gain a +1 status bonus to the check associated with the triggering action.
Trait Effects
Invested: A character can invest only 10 magical items that have the invested trait. None of the magical effects of the item apply if the character hasn’t invested it, nor can it be activated, though the character still gains any normal benefits from wearing the physical item (like a hat keeping rain off their head).
Occult: This magic comes from the occult tradition, calling upon bizarre and ephemeral mysteries. Anything with this trait is magical. A creature with this trait is primarily constituted of or has a strong connection to occult magic.
Tattoo: A magical tattoo has the tattoo trait. It's permanently a part of the subject's body, and reduces the number of items that creature can invest per day by 1. Each tattoo has the invested trait to indicate this limitation—a magical tattoo is like an invested item that the tattooed creature has no choice but to invest. If the tattoo loses its magic or is destroyed, it no longer reduces your investiture. Just like a physical magic item, a magical tattoo can be counteracted by spells like _dispel magic_ or _disjunction_. If destroyed, the tattoo fades from the skin. If a creature gets a new magical tattoo when their limit on invested items has already been reduced to zero, the new tattoo's magic fails to take hold, and it becomes a non-magical tattoo instead. However, a tattooist can alter an existing tattoo when they Craft a tattoo, modifying the old one into a different magical tattoo and removing the old effect. Magical tattoos can usually be upgraded into their greater versions by having a tattooist add to or modify the existing tattoo.
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|---|---|---|
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| Warding Tattoo (Trail) | 6 | Common |
| Warding Tattoo (Wave) | 6 | Common |
| Arclord Eye | 7 | Common |
| Bewitching Bloom (Bellflower) | 7 | Common |
| Boozy Bottle | 5 | Common |
| Cloak of Illusions | 7 | Common |
| Crown of Insight | 7 | Uncommon |
| Crown of the Master | 7 | Rare |
| Dreamer's Butterfly | 5 | Common |
| Empty Hand Marking | 5 | Rare |
| Flowing Water (Moderate) | 7 | Uncommon |
| Homeward Swallow | 5 | Uncommon |
| Kindler Cameo | 7 | Unique |
| Reflexive Tattoo | 7 | Uncommon |
| Silent Heart | 5 | Uncommon |
| Sparkwarden | 5 | Unique |
| Twilight Tattoo | 5 | Uncommon |