Memento Mori

Wondrous item (requires attunement by the shade for whom it was offered)
As long as you have the memento mori in your possession, you don't require food, drink, or sleep. As an action, you can draw on all the sotres memory at once, and you receive the effects of a potion of heroism. When the effect expires, the memento mori loses its magic.

Significance

A shade's remembrance of their own life, their own self, is the key to their continued existence. When others honor their memory, a shade can draw sustenance and strength from it. Any token, gift, or even a work of art or poetry intended to honor the memory o fhte shade carries the give or creator's memory can sustain the shade.
Creating a true memento mori requires that the creator have a genuine desire to honor the shade. It might seem trivial for a shade's bard companion to compose poems or songs regularly, bthus sustaining the shade, but such attempts fail. Memory is the key, and a creator who is in regular close contact with the shade draws more on that contact than on tehir own memory. A shade's traveling companion painting a portrait of the shade during their travels will never become a memento mori, but a handmade twine bracelet given by a villager after the shade saved their village might if the shade moves on. Above all, a true, empowered memento mori must carry meaning.

Item type

Consumable, Magical

Rarity

Uncommon