Pendant of Life

Pendant of Life is a legendary talisman in Landorya. Its known origin is The Pendant of Life was crafted in the twilight age of the Celestial Order's stewardship of Landorya, wrought jointly by the Naiad spirit-weavers of the Mireth Springs and a master goldsmith of the Eldorians named Sorvael the Tender, who spent forty years petitioning the Naiads for a single heartstone. The Celestials themselves breathed a thread of divine life-force into the setting during the Rite of the Undying Flame, binding resurrection magic into the gem so that death might never be entirely beyond reach for those who walked in the light.. Its most cited abilities include Resurrection: Once per full lunar cycle, the pendant can restore a soul to its body, provided the bearer died no more than three days prior, the heartstone dims to grey for seven days afterward as it recovers its power., Miraculous Mending: Channels concentrated life-force into grievous wounds, closing them within moments; poisons of Naga origin, however, resist its touch and require the wearer to concentrate for a full hour., and Life Sense: The wearer perceives the vitality of all living creatures within thirty paces, sensing wounds, sickness, and the nearness of death as a shifting warmth or coldness against their skin.. Accounts also warn of a drawback: The weight of stolen death is not without cost: each resurrection worked by the pendant shortens the lifespan of its wearer by one year, a toll felt as a sudde…

For two centuries the pendant was kept in the Sanctuary of the Everbloom, a Naiad-blessed shrine at the heart of the Eldorian capital, where healers of the Order of the Starlight would borrow it during plagues and wars, most famously during the Grey Rot that swept through the Halfling villages of the Verdant Marches, where it is said the pendant was used eleven times in a single month to call souls back from the threshold. It was lost when the Drakonian warlord Keth Varos sacked the Sanctuary during the War of the Sundered Vale, and for a generation it passed through the hands of Orc chieftains and Desert Scholar traders, each unaware of its true nature and treating it as little more than a curiosity of fine make. The Order of the Starlight eventually traced it to the markets of the Shimmering Isles, where a Gnome antiquarian named Pell Dustvane had it displayed behind glass, unaware that the dimmed heartstone had been slowly brightening again for years. It was recovered by an Aether-sworn courier mere months before Dustvane could sell it to an anonymous buyer, and the pendant now rests under heavy guard in the Starlight Sanctum of the Order's mountain citadel, studied but seldom worn.