Chicken-legged Cauldron
The Chicken-legged Cauldron is the strange vessel of the Esurien Crones. Cursed never to eat fresh meat, the crones live on carrion scraped from the bones of long-dead creatures, and they carry cauldrons on chicken legs in which they store the bones they collect. With dark magic they make the meat on those bones grow, so that they can survive longer on fewer bones.1
Nature
The cauldron is a tiny fey creature. It cannot speak, yet it perceives what is around it without eyes.2
It always follows its master. If its master goes too far from it for any reason, it becomes an ordinary cauldron until the master comes back.2
When magic is worked close to it, the cauldron can draw the aether out of the spell and pass it on to its master. It defends itself by hurling bones, which burn like acid.2
Notes
Sources
This article draws on:
- DoTDesolation of Time(Bad Badger Games, 2024), pp. 176-177
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Desolation of Time (Bad Badger Games, 2024), p. 176. Art by the Bad Badger Games team.
Desolation of Time (Bad Badger Games, 2024), p. 176. Art by the Bad Badger Games team.
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