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Infiltrator's Lantern

Added 2024-12-06 16:00:12 +0000 UTC

Wondrous item, uncommon

This dark, hooded lantern burns for 1 hour on 1 pint of oil. While holding it, you can use an action to expand or reduce its radius of dim light, to a maximum of 30 feet or a minimum of 5 feet. While lit in this way, the lantern sheds a strange, dim light out to a range of 30 feet, which is visible only to creatures within that radius. Unless the area is already in bright light or magical darkness, affected creatures can see normally within that radius, but only in shades of gray.

The subterranean garden beneath the dwarven mines was a wonder. First, at its heart was a pagoda filled with seemingly unguarded relics. Second, it was filled with unique cultivars to the underground; those who crept in darkness would find the plants dangerously animate (and ravenous), while those bearing light could keep them at bay—at the cost of being discovered by the ever-attentive guards.

However, the Ravenheart strode onward, unaccosted by either. Holding his lantern high, its eye shed light enough to lend surety to his steps and pacify the garden's hungry plants. The guardsmen were left, as ever, in the dark.

And, as the Ravenheart turned the phrase 'blinded by the light you cannot see' over in his mind, he made his silent entrance.