Item: Maw of Hungry Shadows
Shadows swirl around this soot-black tome, swallowing up any light that touches them. A faint whispering emanates from the grimoire's pages when opened.
Activate 1 (concentrate)
Frequency once per day
Trigger Your last action was to cast a spell prepared from this grimoire that has the shadow trait
Effect Your shadow, and that of the tome, elongates and reaches hungrily for one foe within 30 feet, who must attempt a Fortitude save.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected.
Success The creature is Blinded for 1 round and Drained 1 as the shadows scrape across it.
Failure The creature is blinded for 1 minute and Drained 2 as the shadows seize it.
Critical Failure As failure, but the shadows also pull the creature into the tome, teleporting it to the Netherworld.
Trait Effects
Grimoire: _Note from Nethys: no description was provided for this trait. See here for details_
Incapacitation: An ability with this trait can take a character completely out of the fight or even kill them, and it’s harder to use on a more powerful character. If a spell has the incapacitation trait, any creature of more than twice the spell’s rank treats the result of their check to prevent being incapacitated by the spell as one degree of success better, or the result of any check the spellcaster made to incapacitate them as one degree of success worse. If any other effect has the incapacitation trait, a creature of higher level than the item, creature, or hazard generating the effect gains the same benefits.
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.
Shadow: Magic with this trait involves shadows or the energy of the Netherworld. Planes with this trait are umbral with murky light. In the Netherworld, the radius of all light from light sources and the areas of light spells are halved.
Teleportation: Teleportation effects instantaneously move something from one point in space to another. Teleportation does not usually trigger reactions based on movement.
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