Necklace of Water Breathing

Necklace of Water Breathing is a rare talisman in Landorya. Its known origin is The Necklace of Water Breathing was first crafted by the Naga artificer-priestess Ssivara of the Coiling Deep, who wove her own shed scales into the binding cords before replacing them with sacred kelp, channelling the ancient water-rites of the Naga's serpentine masters into each crystal during the Tide of the Hollow Moon, a rare celestial event when the boundary between surface and deep-world grows thin. She forged a small number of these talismans as diplomatic gifts, intended to allow trusted surface-dwelling emissaries to enter the Naga's submerged sanctums without drowning.. Its most cited abilities include Grants the wearer the ability to breathe underwater indefinitely while the necklace is worn., Grants the wearer limited resistance to water pressure, allowing survival at crushing oceanic depths., and Subtly enhances the wearer's swimming speed, granting fluid, near-effortless movement through water.. Accounts also warn of a drawback: The necklace, having been consecrated to the Naga's water-rites, quietly awakens an obsessive pull toward deep water in those who wear it for more than a full…

The first of Ssivara's necklaces was gifted to a Desert Scholar envoy named Karev al-Doun, who used it to negotiate water-rights along the sunken borderlands claimed by both the Desert Scholars and the Naga, a tense accord still known as the Pact of Still Waters. After Karev's death, the necklace passed through the hands of an Oceara sea-warden who wore it during the Drowning of the Shimmered Reefs, a catastrophic collapse of a great coral fortress besieged by the Frostborn. It was lost when the warden's vessel was swallowed by a deep-trench storm off the Shimmering Isles, and for a generation it lay forgotten on the seabed. Most recently, rumours among the Naiads of the inner channels suggest that a Halfling pearl-diver stumbled upon it in a sea-cave near the Shimmering Isles' southern shelf, though whether the finder yet understands what hangs around their neck remains unknown.