⚔️D&D 5e
Rare
Carved from a petrified human tongue, this flute produces notes that taste faintly of copper and whisper back to you when no one else is listening.
Properties
- •Requires attunement by a Bard
- •While attuned, you can use this flute as a spellcasting focus for your Bard spells
- •While attuned, you gain a +1 bonus to your Spell Save DC and Spell Attack rolls
- •The flute has 5 charges and regains 1d4+1 charges at midnight
- •You may expend 1 charge to cast Dissonant Whispers (2d6 psychic damage, DC 15 Wisdom saving throw) as a bonus action while playing the flute
- •You may expend 2 charges to cast Enemies Abound (DC 15 Intelligence saving throw) without expending a spell slot
- •You may expend 3 charges to cast Hunger of Hadar (concentration, up to 1 minute) without expending a spell slot
- •Tongue Slip (passive): Whenever you roll a 1 on a Charisma (Persuasion) check while attuned, you involuntarily speak one true secret aloud — the GM determines what is revealed
Special Ability
Lingual Unraveling (1/day): As an action, you play a shrieking discordant note and target one creature within 60 feet that can hear you. That creature must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or have its tongue cursed for 1 hour. While cursed, whenever the target attempts to speak, cast a spell with a verbal component, or use a language-dependent ability, it must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or the action fails and is wasted. A remove curse spell ends this effect early. Constructs and creatures that do not speak are immune.
GM Only — Hidden Secrets
The flute was not carved — it grew. A cultist of a nameless god of unspoken truths pierced their own tongue with a cursed needle and spoke every secret they had ever kept over the course of three days until their tongue hardened to stone and fell free. The flute hums with residual compulsion magic. The Tongue Slip property is not random: the GM should select secrets the character has actively tried to conceal, prioritizing ones that would cause social consequences. If the Bard attunes to this item for more than 30 consecutive days, they begin dreaming in a language they do not know — fragments of the original cultist's confessions. After 60 days, they begin whispering in their sleep, and companions may overhear plot-relevant information. The entity the cult served has not forgotten this flute exists and will eventually send emissaries to reclaim it — politely at first.
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