Unseen Encasement

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Description

Many insects and on some occasions even tiny animals end their lives preserved inside a hardened, sticky dollop of ambergelt. It should be little surprise then that this material plays such as prominent roll in crafting the unseen encasement. While ambergelt resin is often used as a varnish to finish the wood of a staff, an unseen encasement is likely to include a large piece of ambergelt, amber or treated glass or crystal at the business end, and the most valuable such pieces have an insect or small creature preserved inside.

One of these staves may occasionally be called a zoologist's leash, following their use to temporarily restrain beasts for capture and inclusion in zoos or use in magical experiments. While they cannot be used to capture larger beasts, they are excellent for preventing flying creatures and fast-moving, smaller animals from escaping long enough for a companion to quickly restrain the target. Some Imperial Orc warcasters and Freeborn magicians find the use of these implements distasteful, referring to their regular use in Imperial History to capature or restrain slaves.

Both the wielder of this magical staff and the enemy are caught in an invisible embrace, unable to move their bodies, by the magic it contains. Some wielders claim to experience the panic of a weakly struggling creature when they use this staff, and sometimes have to make a concerted effort not to be overwhelmed by it.

Rules

• Form: Staff.
• Effect: You may cast the paralysis spell as if you know it.
• Materials: Crafting an unseen encasement requires eight measures of ambergelt. It takes one month to make one of these items.

You are a fly, struggling in my web of lies .... and ambergelt!