Item: Smoky Hag Eye

Level8
Rarity
Rare
Price450 gp
UsageWorn
PublicationPathfinder #182: Graveclaw

This item appears to be an ordinary semiprecious stone and is typically mounted on a brooch or ring, but the stone is, in fact, an eyeball. This illusion can be seen through with true seeing or similar magic, and anyone who interacts with the item feels its wet and sticky surface, allowing them to attempt to disbelieve the illusion (DC 19). Many hags claim a hag eye is more effective if plucked from a living, awake creature, but this is likely just a convenient excuse for sadism.

The hag eye produces no direct benefit for the wearer, but allows the hag who created it, or any member of her coven, can peer through the eye using the Seek action. This has no range limit, provided the hag is on the same plane.

Any damage dealt to the eye destroys it. If this happens while a hag is looking through it, the hag is Blinded for 1 hour.

A smoky hag eye is named after the black vapor that constantly emanates from it, like the smoke that continually seeps from a bodak's eye.


Activate 1 (death, necromancy, visual) You target a creature within 30 feet that must be able to see the smoky hag eye. The target must attempt a DC 24 Fortitude save. Once a creature attempts this save, it's temporarily immune for 24 hours.


Critical Success The creature is unaffected.

Success The creature is Drained 1.

Failure The creature is Doomed 1 and Drained 2.

Critical Failure The creature is doomed 1 and Drained 3.


Craft Requirements You must be a hag, and the raw materials must include the eye of a bodak.


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.

Scrying: A scrying effect lets you see, hear, or otherwise get sensory information from a distance using a sensor or apparatus, rather than your own eyes and ears.


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