Magic Items

I should tell you to be careful when using that sword or you might accidentally set yourself ablaze, you wouldn't be the first person to do so. - Enchanter warning customer

Utility

Magic items can be used for military and civilian uses depending on what they are made to do. Items like these often cost to make them, but they are useful when the need for magic is necessary.

Limit Type

One Time: Often dealing with scrolls and potions items like these once they are used can not be used again and are often destroyed.
Several Times: Items that can be used for a least an hour if they use them properly and should be used wisely.
Several Dozen Times: Items of better quality that can retain more of their magical energy without it being completely drained for more than several hours.
Unlimited Times: Often with top tier items can this be possible as they recharge faster than they can be used. It can be used all day and all night with a worry of it ever being completely drained.

Abuses

Dark magic can easily be used to create magic items with their own nefarious purposes. Items likes these often do unspeakable things to those they are turned on and the one who a wielding them. Items like these are consider forbidden to use. But it does not stop people from making them or using them, but to have a dark magic item in their possession will often lead to serious punishment or having their own life end from its power.

Authenticity

It is often easy to identify a real magic item from a fake one. This is possible because magic items have a distinct glow to them when in use. An item without a proper glow to it is considered a fake and a real one will often react to magic it makes contact with it. The brighter a magic item glows determines the skill and craftsmanship that has been put in to show the power within it.

Manufacturing

It always requires an Enchanter and all the proper techniques that are to make them. The quality of the item often depends on skill of the Enchanter working on it. Which can take weeks of months to proper create one.

Parent Technologies

• Item Enchantment

Inventor(s)

Enchanters were the first to create such items and learn to expand and master the craft over the centuries.

Access & Availability

Magic items can be found far and wide, but are often expansive to get due to the amount a crafted needed to be put into it.

Complexity

Certain items can only be created with certain types of magic with no loopholes around them.

Discovery

Once enchantments were proper created magic items soon followed.

Item Types

Attack: Often applied to weapons that allow the user to use magic in the battle to deal devastating damage to the enemy.
Defense: Often applied to clothing and armor granting extra protection to their wearer from magical and physical harm.
Support: Items that grant the user feats that are not natural to allow them to achieve goals not capable by normal means.
Enchantment: Items that alter a user's abilities to a physical leave such as strength and speed to be used to their advantage.
Arcane: Items that are generally used for magic users only often aiding in casting their magic and ensure that it does not get out of control.