Desolation Locket (Major)

The surface of this golden, heart-shaped locket is nearly worn through with cracks. If opened, it reveals a portrait of someone the bearer loved dearly and has lost. The spell DC of any spell cast by activating this item is 24.

• Armor The desolation locket numbs you to further despair, and you gain a +2 item bonus to saving throws against Emotion effects.
• Weapon (emotion, Mental) After you cast a non-cantrip spell by activating the locket, you emanate an aura of hopelessness in a 5-foot emanation until the start of your next turn. A creature that ends its turn in the aura must succeed at a Will saving throw against the locket's spell DC or become Slowed 1 (slowed 2 on a critical failure) until the end of its next turn.

The item bonus when affixed to armor is +4; when you critically fail a saving throw against an emotion effect, you get a failure instead; and the spell DC is 41.

Activate Cast a Spell · Effect You cast _Haunting Hymn_.

Activate Cast a Spell · Frequency once per day · Effect You cast 7th-rank _wave of despair_.

Activate Cast a Spell · Frequency once per day · Effect You cast _Canticle of Everlasting Grief_.