A chain of rusty locks
Minor arcanum #16
A chain, six links long, each link hung with a corroded bronze padlock. 1d4+1 locks bear a stylized face, frozen in a rusty grimace. The keys to these locks are lost to the ages.
When you hold one of the face-adorned locks and look into its eyes, you can hear the voice of the departed soul bound within: hateful, desperate, pleading to be set free.
You can master these locks by…
Requirements
- ☐ …convincing one of the shades to reveal how it was captured.
- ☐ …convincing a shade to reveal what happens when a lock is opened.
- ☐ …finding a way to open the locks.
The rest is discovered in play. Every arcanum has a hidden back — what it becomes, what it wants, what it costs. That’s for your table to find out, so it isn’t published here.
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