Ethereal Manacle
Description
These staffs are usually made of stout hardwood, treated with ambergelt and bound with dragonbone. Often they are decorated at either end, sometimes with grasping claws. They often have the rune Queros worked into them, and may be carved to look as if they are wound with chains. An ethereal manacle allows a competent magician to split the power of the entangle incantation to root two opponents in place, rather than one.
Sometimes called a magician's retreat, a little contemptuously, it cannot be denied that rooting two opponents to the spot can give the bearer a good head start. A skilled battle magician, however, is quite capable of rooting a pair of opponents to the spot and then beating both of them down with the advantage of superior reach, even though the magician starts the fight outnumbered. Matially-minded runesmiths and curmudgeonly landskeepers are both known to make good use of the short time their opponents cannot move to make them regret trying to gang-up on a magician.
Rules
- Form: Staff.
- Effect: Once per day when you cast the entangle spell, you may use it on two targets rather than one. You still have only ten seconds to deliver both ENTANGLE calls.
- Materials: Crafting an ethereal manacle requires seven measures of ambergelt and four measures of dragonbone. It takes one month to make one of these items.