Illus. by D. Martin
ITEMS OF LEGACY
CHAPTER 3
BRIGHT EVENING STAR
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pair certainly revealed many potent magical effects Bright Evening Star is a platinum ring set with a large centered on the light of the moon and stars. (DC 18; diamond surrounded by a circle of smaller sapphires Starlight on Water) After several decades of adventures, Alenea and Eland rubies. These gems gleam brightly in even the dullest light. An inscription on the inside of the band darniel went their separate ways. Alenea wanted to continue traveling, while Eldarniel wanted to settle reads simply “for Alenea” in Elven. Nonlegacy Game Statistics: Bright Evening Star; down to focus on magical research. When the two Cost 1,500 gp; Weight —. At will, by uttering a parted, Eldarniel gave Alenea Bright Evening Star. He command word, you can use light as the spell. Caster told her their love would last as long as the moonlight level 2nd. and the stars. Alenea wore the ring constantly, but Omen: Although the ring fits any hand, nonelves she seldom called upon its powers. Because she rarely have always reported the loop feels a bit loose or tight. used it and almost never spoke of it, Bright Evening Star goes unmentioned in many stories about AleElves find it sizes perfectly. nea. (DC 25; Love of the Stars) HISTORY Alenea continued adventuring for two Judging from the style of the setting and the hundred years before she decided form of the Elven letters in the inscripto retire. She then returned tion, Bright Evening Star is of high-elf to Eldarniel, who had in the intervening years craftsmanship. The name “Alenea” might well be a reference to the risen from skilled arsorcerer Alenea, a legendary tificer to the position elf hero of three millenof court mage. The two were married. nia ago. An adventurer and a wanderer, AleSome obscure texts nea was the lover of hint that Alenea crafted a ring with the wizard Eldarniel, court magician powers of moonlight to a powerful elfor her husband’s wedding band, but if this is ven king of old. Since Eldarniel was true, no other tales mention the ring and it has been a legendary crafter of magic items, espelost to the ages. Sadly, the couple’s cially rings, it seems bliss was short-lived. Just a decade likely that he created after his marriage, Eldarniel was Bright Evening Star for Alekilled when one of his magical exBright Evening Star commemorates the love nea, perhaps to aid and protect periments backfired and destroyed of the elves Eldarniel and Alenea her on her travels. (DC 15) his entire lab. Alenea maintained the hope that he had merely been Little is known of Alenea’s early life before she completed her magical training shunted to an alternate plane of existence, but she and began her adventuring career. She was born in a finally accepted the truth after years of searching. small fishing village on the coast, and at a young age, She never remarried. When she died, her body was placed next to Eldarniel’s empty tomb, but Bright Eveshe entered one of the elves’ many spellcasting academies. When her studies were completed, she joined ning Star was not buried with her. What happened to the ring remains a mystery. (DC 31, Return What up with an adventuring troupe along with another Was Lost) young mage, Eldarniel. Together they explored ancient ruins and plumbed arcane secrets, but their chief passion was finding and cataloging the mystical LEGACY RITUALS properties of moonlight and starlight. Some loreThree rituals are required to unlock all the abilities masters credit them with discovering silver’s effects of Bright Evening Star. Starlight on Water: You have to find a natural pool on lycanthropes and crafting the first ring of shooting of pure, still water and immerse Bright Evening Star in stars. Whether these claims are accurate or not, the
