Item: Three-Pillared Yang Na
This tattoo represents an abstract tree whose trunk is made up of three lines of Tang text. Applied in a ritual involving jasmine, turmeric, and a blossom from a yang na tree, the tattoo provides three blessings. The first blessing keeps your mind still during negotiations, granting a +1 item bonus to Diplomacy checks.
Activate—Second Blessing 1 (concentrate, detection)
Effect You learn the direction of the yang na tree that gave the blossom used in creating your tattoo. Most such trees are in Tang Mai, far to the west of the Inner Sea.
Activate—Third Blessing R (concentrate)
Trigger You take spirit damage
Effect You gain resistance 3 against that spirit damage.
Trait Effects
Divine: This magic comes from the divine tradition, drawing power from deities or similar sources. Anything with this trait is magical. A creature with this trait is primarily constituted of or has a strong connection to divine magic.
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).
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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| Faith Tattoo (True) | 16 | Common | 8000 gp |
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| Bewitching Bloom (White Poppy) | 4 | Common | 80 gp |
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| Vengeful Arm | 4 | Uncommon | 100 gp |
| Wildwood Ink | 4 | Common | 80 gp |
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