Elixir of Quietus

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A small, perfectly round glass vial sealed with a black wax seal bearing a sleeping skull. The liquid within is a deep, shadowy amber that seems to drink in light. The stopper is set with a tiny onyx bead that coldly reflects the room as if it were a void.

Death's Veil This amber liquid swirls with a midnight tide. When you drink it, for 1 hour you appear dead to magical detection. Any spell or effect that attempts to discern whether you are alive or simply living (such as detect life, detect undead, or other divinations that read life signs) fails to sense you as living. Within 60 feet, you do not register as a living being to such effects, and watchers using true seeing or scrying aimed at life signs will see only a corpse-like presence. The effect ends early if the hour passes.

Lore

Crafted by a recluse alchemist who vanished into the moors, the Elixir of Quietus was meant for those who must walk where eyes do not see. The tales say the draught makes a person’s life almost unreadable to the arcane—so much so that even the cleverest diviner suspects nothing at all, until the spell wears off.

History

First seen in the inventories of spy circles in the border towns, the elixir was traded between thieves, mages, and smugglers who needed to slip past heavily warded archives. Some legends claim the formula was found in a ruined monastery by a monk who had memorized a way to halt the breath of magic itself; others insist it came from a demon-by-curse sealed in a bottle, released only for a single mission. Regardless, the vial has passed through many hands, always accompanied by a caution: look for the price of truth and the risk of being seen as dead by magic.

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