The Hourglass of Infinite Circle

In one of the almost perfectly preserved abandoned buildings in the acient dragon city known as the Ruins of Alcort, protected from the acient dark entity that roams the city and drives anyone who remains within mad, there is a comforatable sitting room, with luxurious rugs on the stone floor and 4 plush armchairs arranged before a meticulously carved stone fire place. In this unlikely sanctuary sits a glassfronted cupboard made of the finest blue-teak wood.
The owner of this display cabinet would tell you that the only way to get blue-teak wood of this quality is to talk to a desert teak for a long time, very fast, with little to no pause. You must in fact, talk a blue streak to the tree until you, and it, turn blue in the face. If anyone in the Empire of Strawthorn del Maire could do it, The Wizard Laum could.
Within this wonderous curio cabinet sit a muttitude of curious and wonderous objects, not least among them, a fantastic hourglass known as the Hourglass of Infinite Circle.

As The Wizard Laum once famously said during his first trial for crimes against the people of the Empire of Strawthorn;

"Time is not an actual thing, it exists only in our minds. It is the absense of time that truely exists and is the only thing that matters when evaluating the value of the continued existence of life"

Created by The Wizard Laum, a powerful Time Wizard, this is a very ornate hourglass. Standing 18 inches tall, it consists of a dark stone disk base and smaller individual circles at the top for each column connected by a smaller thin circle of dark stone. The symbols for pi and infinity feature as repeated designs throughout the carvings on the housing of the hourglass.
Three columns of dark marble extend between the top and bottom disks, gold and platinum decorations twine about each of them forming ancient symbols and glyphs. The glass is of the highest quality and the sand contained within is actually composed of infinitesimally tiny cubes of pure adamantine.
When the hourglass is turned over to let the adamantine sand fall through, all creatures touching the hourglass, up to 10, are removed from the universe's time stream, and, until the sand runs out, can instantly move about any and all of the plains of existence and any place on any plain, as well as any time on any plain. Once the sands run out, all creatures touching the hourglass are returned to the time stream wherever and wherever their destination is, and appear in an unoccupied space within 30 feet of their target. The time it takes for the sands to run out is one hour from the perspective of the creatures touching the hourglass. Releasing the hourglass while outside of time will not return that creature to the timeline and separating from the group to attempt to return to the timeline in a different time or place from the rest of the group will still result in all of the group returning to the time and place of the hourglasses location when the sands run out.
There is a 10% chance that initiating the hourglass causes those touching it to just die. The creatures are dead and their bodies remain where they were when touching the hourglass. The hourglass is also left in the same place as where the creatures died.
There is a 5% that the hourglass will cause a cataclysmic explosion of magical energy causing extreme damage to all creatures within 100 feet of the hourglass but not touching it and stranding those are touching the hourglass outside of time forever, trapped between planes outside of the time stream, watching the worlds go by until the end of the universe. The hourglass transports itself to a random time and place and returns to the timeline, any other version of the hourglass is removed and only one version is in the timeline at one time.
The hourglass also has the ability to allow an intelligent creature holding it to cast the spell Time Stop twice. Once the spell is cast twice, the sands must flow through the hourglass to completion before the spell can be cast again.
In the heart of the Ruins of Alcort, where madness reigns and darkness holds sway, the Hourglass of Infinite Circle waits, both a beacon of hope and a harbinger of peril—a testament to the boundless ingenuity of The Wizard Laum and the unfathomable mysteries of time itself.

History

To create the Hourglass of Infinite Cirlcle, The Wizard Laum had to first travel to the future where the Hourglass already exsisted, there he used it to remove himself from time so that he could safely create the artifact from the heart of a still living Sphinx, the Wand of Time and Space, a small block of sentient adamantine, and other materials unknown to any but Laum.

Item type

Magical

Creation Date

Unknownable since it was created outside of time.

Rarity

One of a kind artifact.

Weight

6 lbs

Dimensions

18"x6"

Base Price

600,000 gp