The Healer's Stone-Bound Totem

The Healer's Stone-Bound Totem is a rare talisman in Landorya. Its known origin is Stone-Bound Totems of this caliber were the masterwork of Halfling Healers who combined their twin disciplines of Herbalism and Stone-Carving, embedding living herb essence into carved stone through a ritual permitted under the Code of Gentle Magic. This particular totem was shaped by a renowned Halfling Healer of the Central Plains.. Its most cited abilities include Amplifies the potency of herbal tinctures and Healing Elixirs applied nearby, Stabilizes a dying creature, preventing death for one turn of the hourglass, and Reveals hidden wounds or magical ailments invisible to the naked eye. Accounts also warn of a drawback: The totem absorbs a measure of the healer's own vitality with each use; a practitioner who leans on it too heavily grows pallid and exhausted, their own wounds…

The totem gained its reputation during a plague that swept through a river-side Halfling settlement trading with Azaria, when its Healer wielder used it to amplify batches of healing tinctures far beyond their normal yield, saving dozens of lives. It was later offered as a gift to an Azarian healer-diplomat to cement trade relations along the river barge routes, though it eventually found its way back to Halfling hands through a merchant exchange. It is now held in a communal healing lodge, brought out only for the gravest of ailments.