⚔️D&D 5e
Rare
Carved from a single human tongue bone that never existed, this flute plays notes no living throat could form.
Properties
- •Requires attunement by a Bard
- •While attuned, you gain a +2 bonus to the spell save DC of your Bard spells
- •The flute has 5 charges and regains 1d4+1 charges at midnight
- •You can use the flute as a spellcasting focus for your Bard spells
- •As an action, expend 1 charge to cast Dissonant Whispers (save DC 15) without expending a spell slot
- •As an action, expend 2 charges to cast Enemies Abound (save DC 15) without expending a spell slot
- •As an action, expend 3 charges to cast Hunger of Hadar (save DC 15) without expending a spell slot, requiring concentration up to 1 minute
- •When you play the flute during a Short or Long Rest, creatures within 30 feet who can hear it must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or find they cannot speak any language they did not know before the rest ended — this effect lasts until they complete a Long Rest without hearing the flute
Special Ability
Stolen Syllables: When a creature fails a saving throw against a spell you cast using this flute, you may use your Reaction to steal one language from that creature. Until the creature completes a Long Rest, it cannot speak or understand that language. You learn to speak that language fluently until the creature recovers it. You may hold only one stolen language at a time.
GM Only — Hidden Secrets
The flute was grown — not carved — inside the mouth of a cultist of Dendar the Night Serpent who swallowed a sliver of divine silence and suffocated on it. The bone that formed around his tongue calcified into this instrument over 40 years while his body was interred alive in a sealed reliquary. The flute is not cursed in a mechanical sense, but it is watched: Dendar considers every language stolen through it to be a whispered offering, and after the attuned Bard has used Stolen Syllables 13 times total, Dendar dispatches a Shadow Demon to observe the wielder silently for 1d4 weeks before making contact through dreams, offering a warlock pact. The flute also remembers every language it has ever stolen — a DC 18 Arcana check while holding it reveals faint phonetic echoes of dead languages trapped inside the bore holes. One of those languages is the true name of a Rakshasa who very much wants it destroyed.
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