Quill of Veracity

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Charges: 7 (regains at dawn)

A slender, obsidian-black feather with an iridescent blue sheen. The nib is a fine silver point that glints whenever a true fact is written. The quill rests in a crystal inkwell etched with tiny runes that glow faintly when truth is spoken. Its grip is cool to the touch, and the feather seems to shimmer as if catching moonlight, even in daylight.

Truthful Script The quill writes only statements that are true to the quill’s knowledge. If a fact is unknown to the quill, the writing leaves it blank or prints the word 'Unknown' rather than a falsehood.

Ask a Truth As an action, you may expend 1 charge to inscribe a concise factual truth about a subject you name on a page. The answer must be within the quill’s knowledge as of the moment of writing and appears as a single sentence. If the quill does not know the answer, it writes 'Unknown.'

Lasting Record Any page written with the quill remains legible for 30 days in normal light. After that, the text fades unless preserved by magic.

Lore

Legend speaks of a scribe devoted to a goddess of truth, who forged this quill to record only what was true. It has helped unmask traitors and reveal carefully hidden histories, never composing a lie, no matter the pressure to do so.

History

Said to have changed hands among royal archivists, scholars, and courtiers, the Quill of Veracity has appeared wherever a society sought to reveal a hidden truth. It refused to write a treacherous secret, and when pressed, the page offered only what it truly knew, guiding the holder toward justice rather than advantage.

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