Archives of Nethys
Source Impossible Magic pg. 226
Price 24,000 gp
Usage worn eyepiece; Bulk —
This strange contraption slides over your eyes, supernaturally sharpening your mind. While peering through it, you can feel some entity whispering to you, telling all sorts of things about the subject of your gaze. You gain a +3 item bonus to Occultism (though some entities might grant a bonus to a different skill, as determined by your GM). In addition, when you employ an exploration tactic other than Investigating, you also gain the benefits of Investigating unless you choose not to. When you invest the spectacles, you either increase your Intelligence modifier by 1 or increase it to +4, whichever would give you the higher value. This gives you additional trained skills and languages, as normal for increasing your Intelligence modifier. You must select skills and languages the first time you invest the item, and whenever you invest the same archivist’s gaze, you get the same skills and languages you picked the first time.
Activate—Aid from Beyond [one-action] (concentrate, manipulate); Frequency once per hour; Effect Adjusting the eyepiece’s focus and asking the entity for help, you cause the spectacles to cast either see the unseen or a 3rd-rank translate on you. Because the entity tied to the spectacles chooses which one, the GM picks whichever spell is most immediately useful in your current situation (and chooses the most useful language each time the item casts translate). The spell lasts for 1 minute.
Shelyn's Corner
×Classic Feel
Classic Feel
Classic Feel
The classic look for the Archives of Nethys.
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Book Feel
Book Feel
Book Feel
An alternative feel, based on the Rulebooks.
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Round Feel
Round Feel
Round Feel
A rounded, modern look for the archives.
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Slim Feel
Slim Feel
Slim Feel
A variant of the Round feel, more compact.
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