Staff of Healing

Staff of Healing is a rare weapon in Landorya. Its known origin is The Staff of Healing was first crafted in the twilight city of Sylvara by the Sylvan Elf lorewright Aelindra Mosswhisper, who felled a single bough from the Eternal Ashwood, a tree said to have been planted by the Celestials themselves at the dawn of Landorya, and bound it with a living crystal of Naiad spring-water gifted by the river-spirit Thessavel of the Mirethon Waters. Aelindra shaped it during the Age of the Wasting Bloom, when a plague carried by corrupted Naga spores threatened to consume the western reaches, forging the staff as both cure and covenant between her people and the Naiads.. Its most cited abilities include Mends wounds, lacerations, and broken bones upon direct contact, drawing on the bearer's own life-force as a channeling medium., Purges poisons and venoms, including the notorious Naga blood-toxins, from a victim's body within a single casting., and Radiates a sustained aura of restorative light in a wide radius, slowing the spread of disease and bolstering the vitality of nearby allies.. Accounts also warn of a drawback: The staff demands equilibrium: every major healing it performs draws a proportional measure of vitality from the wielder, manifesting as rapid aging of the ski…

In its earliest years the staff was wielded by Aelindra herself, who walked from the Sylvan forest-canopies to the fever-camps of Human settlements along the Mirethon river, halting the Wasting Bloom before it reached the Iron Mountains, an act that earned the Sylvan Elves a generation of peace with the Dwarves of that range. After Aelindra's passing, the staff was enshrined in the Healer's Sanctuary of Sylvara, where it was periodically lent to trusted emissaries; it was during one such loan that it fell into the hands of a Desert Scholar physician named Tarven Ashveil, who carried it deep into the Sun-Scarred Peaks seeking a Sphinx's cure for a second outbreak, and was never seen again. For three centuries the staff was presumed lost within the labyrinthine riddle-vaults of the Peaks, until a Halfling merchant caravan reportedly recovered a "pale glowing staff" from a collapsed vault near the Sunspire Pass, its current whereabouts remain unconfirmed, though both the Sylvan Elves and the Order of the Starlight have dispatched agents to reclaim it.