Item: Fossil Fragment (Petrified Wood)
A fossil fragment is a piece of a fossil creature, typically a smaller bone from a larger specimen.
Activate—Fossil Metamorphosis 2 (concentrate, manipulate)
Effect You activate the fragment by placing it on solid ground and then speaking its name, causing the fragment to form the full fossilized skeleton of a creature. In creature form, the fragment has the minion trait. Because it's an animated fossil instead of a living creature, it has the construct and earth traits and lacks its normal creature type trait (typically animal). It's also immune to bleed, death effects, disease, doomed, drained, Fatigued, healing, nonlethal attacks, Paralyzed, poison, sickened, vitality, void, and Unconscious. It can understand your language, and it obeys you to the best of its ability when you use an action to command it. The specifics of each creature, as well as the activation's frequency, if any, appear in its entry below.
This colorful sliver of petrified wood becomes an awakened tree when activated. It doesn't have the normal weaknesses of an awakened tree, but it's rooted in place, Immobilized. As a single action, it can throw a petrified seed, such as a stone pine cone or acorn, up to 60 feet. A copy of the tree appears there, provided there's an unoccupied space large enough for it. While two trees exist, if either tree throws another seed, one of the existing trees disappears, replaced by the new tree. The tree can be called upon once per day for up to 1 minute. This duration starts when you activate the item, and all trees disappear when it ends.
Trait Effects
Earth: Effects with the earth trait either manipulate or conjure earth. Those that manipulate earth have no effect in an area without earth. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of earth or have a connection to magical earth. These planes are mostly solid. Travelers arriving upon an earth plane risk suffocation if they don’t reach a cavern or some other air pocket within the plane’s solid matter. Creatures who can’t burrow are entombed in the plane’s substance and must attempt to dig their way toward an air pocket. Air creatures are ill at ease, as they rarely have the space to move freely through even the loftiest warrens.
Magical: Something with the magical trait is imbued with magical energies not tied to a specific tradition of magic. Some items or effects are closely tied to a particular tradition of magic. In these cases, the item has the arcane, divine, occult, or primal trait instead of the magical trait. Any of these traits indicate that the item is magical.
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| Name | Level | Rarity |
|---|---|---|
| Aeon Stone (Olivine Pendeloque) | 14 | Uncommon |
| Cavern's Heart | 14 | Rare |
| Fossil Fragment (Amber Mosquito) | 13 | Common |
| Fossil Fragment (Triceratops Frill) | 15 | Common |
| Singing Stone | 13 | Uncommon |
| Fossil Fragment (Eurypterid Paddle) | 12 | Common |
| Jabali's Dice | 12 | Common |
| Ring of Stoneshifting | 12 | Uncommon |
| Trinity Geode (Major) | 12 | Common |
| Fossil Fragment (Tyrannosaur Tooth) | 17 | Common |
| Robe of Stone | 11 | Uncommon |
| Sandcastle | 11 | Uncommon |
| Fossil Fragment (Brontosaurus Phalange) | 18 | Uncommon |
| Aeon Stone (Cymophane Cabochon) | 9 | Uncommon |
| Shoony Shovel | 9 | Rare |
| Drum of Upheaval | 20 | Uncommon |
| Trinity Geode (Greater) | 8 | Common |
| Fossil Fragment (Deinonychus Claw) | 7 | Common |
| Jar of Shifting Sands | 7 | Common |
| Adamantine Echo | 5 | Rare |