Artisan Tool

Legendary Transmutation

By bathing the needles in the blood of your enemies, you can use these tattooing needles to craft magical tattoos into your body. When you bathe the needles in fresh blood (fresh meaning less than 1 minute old) for 1 hour, they glow and hum with life. During your next long rest, you can activate the needles, causing them to float above you and create a magical tattoo from the creature's blood. For this to work, you must have struck the killing blow on the creature. Tattoos created by these needles depict the killing blow that struck the creature down. When you look closely at the tattoo, it seems to move in an accurate depiction of the creature's final moments. When a tattoo is expended (see below for details on that) it turns into a normal, blood-red tattoo until it recharges.   When a tattoo is inscribed on your skin, you pick what level of tattoo to inscribe. You can have a total number of spell levels of tattoos equal to your Constitution bonus (minimum 1).   You can replace your tattoos with other ones during a long rest. If you do, the ones that are replaced lose their magical properties, but they do remain on your skin as a testament to your victory.  

Tattoo Types

Tattoos created by the Blood Needles take on different properties depending on the stats of the creature whose blood they are bathed in. They effect of the tattoo is determined by the primary stat of the victim (Strength for Ogres, Intelligence for Wizards, etc.). The level of the tattoo's effect is two less than the bonus that creature gets for their primary stat, with a minimum of 1 (so if the creature's primary stat is an 18, the tattoo is level 2; if the primary stat is a 20, the tattoo level is 3).   You can choose to apply a tattoo at a lower level than normal. Once you do, the decision is permanent.   You can make an Investigation check to try to discover the primary stat and tattoo level of the victim's blood. The DC of this check is equal to the creature's CR + 5. If you succeed, you learn the primary stat, and the tattoo level of the creature.

Cost: Priceless
Weight: 0lbs