Ring of Echoing Heartbeats

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Charges: 7 (regains at dawn)

A slender platinum ring set with a wisping obsidian heart-shaped cabochon. The band is engraved with flowing lines that mimic beating hearts, and a cool blue glow hums faintly from the stone whenever the ring’s power is active. When worn, the ring pulses softly to the tempo of nearby life, as if the wearer can hear the rhythm of every heartbeat pressed behind walls.

Heartbeat Sense You can hear the heartbeat of any living creature within 60 feet through walls, doors, and other nonmagical barriers. You can discern the number of heartbeats and roughly gauge each target’s distance (to within 10 feet). You also know the general direction of each heartbeat relative to you.

Focused Pulse You may expend 1 charge to intensify the ring’s sensing on a single heartbeat within range. For the next 1 minute, you can hear that creature’s heartbeat through walls as if you were standing beside them. You gain advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks to track that creature’s location by sound. The effect ends early if the target dies or leaves the ring’s range.

Lore

The Ring of Echoing Heartbeats was forged by the Silent Cartographers, a guild of spies who mapped cities by listening to the rhythm of life within their walls. It was said to have been given to the guild’s most trusted scout, Mara Vell, whose uncanny ability to sense dangers through the heartbeat of a city saved her companions on many a night raid. The ring passed between agents and thieves alike, disappearing after Mara’s disappearance in the Whispering Halls.

History

Legend says the ring was lost during a failed infiltration of a king’s keep, resurfaced decades later in a thieves’ guild cache beneath the city. It later appeared in the hands of a ranger who used it to track patrols through siege lines, and finally found its way to a collector who kept it hidden behind a glass statue in a private gallery.

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