Wondrous Item

Legendary Requires Attunement

The Mournful Veil is a beautiful tiara veil headpiece with an intriacte floral design and housing a number of beautiful red and black gewels adowing it. The fabric of the veil itself is rather short and can easily be tucked ot of the way under the flowers of the rest of the tiara to make it more of a crown look.

Sentiance. The Mournful Veil is inhabited by the spirit of an ancient human who died during the Calamity. The being is a Lawful Neutral enity with an Inteligance of 16, a Wisdom of 22 and a Charisma of 13. It has hearing and darkvision out to a range of 120 feet. It can also see into the Etherial Realm.

The Veil communicates telepathically with its wielder and can speak, read, and understand Common and an Unknown Ancient Language used, seemingly only by her and her sailor counterparts from old.

Personality. The Mournful Veil houses the soul of a being that goes by the name Nightengale. She is a being who's ship suddenly appeared on the battlefeild of the calamity. During which time, her and her compatriots were taken to the winter archon, tortured and killed. Somehow, her spirit remains in her veil and persists. She seeks out her god, Corvus, who she says, a fragment of him ventured with her to this world it appears. She seeks him out now that she is finally free of the mountain. The most noticable tell for her deities presence is a golden skull door handel that appears anywhere in the world.

Spells. The crown has 12 charges. While wearing it, you can use an action to expend some of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it (spell save DC 16): Toll the dead (at will), spare the dying (at will) gental repose (2 charges), disintegrate (7 charges), life transference(3 charges), finger of death (7 charges), shadow moil (4 charges), hold person (2 charges), ray of enfeeblement (2 charges), sleep (1 charge), slow (3 charges), telekinesis (5 charges) etherialness (6 charges), tether essense (6 charges). witherbloom (2 charges).

The crown regains 1d6 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn.

Danse Macabre. Once per day, the veil will allow you to cast the following spells once per day: Danse Macabre, Animate Dead. Talk with Dead.

Shadow Step. While in light shadow, you can use your movement to become a shodowy mist that does not provoke attack of oportunity. This mist acts as a teleport of sorts and can even put you in the sky if you choose.

Nightengales Shroud. As a bonus action, you summon forth the shroud of Nightengale for 1 hour. Her spirit hovers over you in a protective sround and granting her macabre power to you. With this, you gan the following effects:

• A 60ft fly speed as you are held aloft in her spirit form.


• Necrotic Damage Immunity


• Until the effect ends, any attack you make deals 1d8 extra necrotic damage when you hit a creature within 10 feet of you. Any creature that takes this damage can't regain hit points until the start of your next turn.


• Any creature of your choice that you can see that starts its turn within 10 feet of you has its speed reduced by 10 feet until the start of your next turn.


• You can see into the etherial plane