Impudent Polymorph
A dead lord's tomb-jar, and he loathes every supplicant who comes begging.
- Category
- Minor
A yew jar, thirty inches tall, with a lid shaped like a horned lion and sealed with wax. Its surface is cracked and speared with shards of red crystal, and to touch it is to feel great annoyance laced with a hint of fear. Bound within is the spirit of a haughty Green Lord, dragged from his idyllic afterlife to reshape the flesh of whoever dares disturb him. He can remake your form however you describe — but he resents the intrusion, and a careless demand earns his spite rather than his craft. Open the jar and all its magic is lost.
To unlock it
- wash its surface with your own fresh blood (lose 1d10 HP and mark a debility).
- commune with the spirit of the haughty Green Lord to whom this jar is bound.
- learn to use the red crystals to torment the Green Lord’s spirit.
- convince the bound Green Lord spirit to change your form. If the jar is opened, all its magic is lost.
This work includes material from Stonetop by Jeremy Strandberg, published by Lampblack & Brimstone, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.