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Satsnakheli 527 of the Mountain Horn of Continuous Libation

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Lore

  • In the rugged highlands and terraced valleys of Saṃsāra, hospitality is regarded as an inviolable ritual boundary, and the act of drinking together forms an ancient magical pact that repels malevolent spirits, curses, and ill fortune.
  • Highland folklore speaks of the Tamada—the consecrated toastmasters and village ward-speakers of the Caucasus—who carved drinking horns from mountain beasts and blessed them during the autumn pressing, decreeing that a vessel shared in fellowship should never harbor poison nor run dry while a guest thirsts.
  • The number 527 denotes a traditional lineage of communal ritual horns crafted for wandering ward-keepers and agrarian avatars to turn ordinary merriment, shared toasts, and heavy mountain spirits into wards against hostile sorcery and bodily exhaustion.
  • Rather than simple overindulgence, Satsnakheli tradition views the ritual intake of fermented grape must as an infusion of the earth’s fiery solar essence, burning away fear, dulling physical pain, and binding companions together in mutual protection against shadow entities (Devi).
  • Today, hedge-witches, frontier sentries, and traveling toastmasters carry these horns at their hips, using the magic of continuous libation to toast in the face of despair, steel the courage of allies, and out-drink any wicked spirit that attempts to cross the threshold.

Description

  • The item is a fourteen-inch drinking horn curved into a sweeping arc, hand-scraped and polished from the horn of a wild Caucasian mountain goat (tur), displaying natural bands of honey-amber, charcoal, and cream.
  • The wide drinking rim is bound in a fitted collar of hand-hammered bronze, stamped with three repeating friezes of grapevine tendrils, grape clusters, and small ritual drinking bowls (piala).
  • The narrow, pointed tip of the horn terminates in a cast-bronze mountain ram’s head fitting with spiraling horns and pierced eyelets for a woven suspension cord.
  • A Tier 1 magic crystal—a smooth, deep amber-colored round carnelian cabochon—is mounted squarely onto the forehead of the bronze ram’s head finial, glowing with a soft, warm ember-like light whenever the vessel is filled with alcohol.
  • The body of the horn is secured by a harness of braided mountain sheep’s wool cords dyed saffron-gold and wine-red, suspended from a dark-oiled goatskin leather baldric that allows it to hang comfortably at the hip or across the chest.
  • The interior of the horn is coated with cured pine-resin and beeswax, continually exuding the rich, heady aroma of dry red wine, fermented wild honey, toasted oak wood, and mountain mint.

Detailed Stats

  • Item Tier: Tier 1 (Common)
  • Item Classification: Worn / Carried Ritual Drinking Vessel / Arcane Focus
  • Specific Gear Slot: Belt Slot or Torso Slot (Suspended via shoulder baldric or hip harness; held in one hand during use)
  • Liquid Capacity: 1.5 pints (approx. 24 fluid ounces)
  • Armor Check (AC) Modifier: +0 base AC (+1 circumstance bonus to AC and saving throws against fear, intimidation, and psychic disorientation while actively intoxicated or holding a full horn).
  • Item Resilience: 10
  • Item Health Points: Avatar maximum Health Points plus 10 (base avatar max HP plus resilience of 10 multiplied by item tier 1).
  • Structural Integrity: The carnelian stone clouds to dull clay-orange and the polished horn develops fine surface fissures if reduced to half its total health points or below; the bronze rim detaches and the horn splits lengthwise if reduced to 0 health points.
  • Item Weight: 1.0 pound empty, 2.5 pounds full (counts against carried gear limit; loses all weight if placed inside an extradimensional container).
  • Attunement Requirement: Simple attunement (requires filling the horn with fermented wine or strong mountain spirits, reciting a traditional three-part toast honoring the earth, the guests, and the ancestors, drinking the horn dry in a single draught without spilling a drop, and wiping the carnelian clean; unattunes immediately if placed inside an extradimensional container).
  • Suggested Market Value: 25 silver coins (2 gold and 5 silver coins) in highland villages, vineyard press-houses, and wayside taverns; rising to 35 to 45 silver coins in besieged mountain outposts, arid border towns, and subterranean mining camps.

Passive Magic

  • Endless Draught of the Toastmaster:
    • Whenever the horn is completely emptied during an earnest toast, communal song, or friendly gathering, it passively condenses a clean, potable draught of light, spiced mountain table wine or sweet grape must over the course of 1 hour, providing the wielder with basic liquid sustenance even in arid wastes or blighted ruins.
  • Taint-Cleansing Resin:
    • Any alcohol, water, or fermented cider poured into the vessel is instantly purged of nonmagical contaminants, biological foulness, and mundane poisons within 3 rounds. The carnelian cabochon flashes a sharp, warning crimson if magical or supernatural venom is poured into the horn.
  • Jovial Fortitude:
    • While the wielder drinks from the horn, they are immune to nonmagical alcohol poisoning and the debilitating penalties of mundane drunkenness (slurred speech, nausea, and impaired motor coordination), retaining full wits and reflexes while enjoying the warm euphoria and courage of inebriation.

Activable Magic

  • Tamada’s Resonant Toast (The Ward of Fellowship):
    • Action Cost: One standard action.
    • Verbal / Casting Requirement: The wielder raises the filled horn high, shouting a hearty Georgian toast to fellowship and courage, then takes a deep swig.
    • Effect: The wielder and up to four allies within 15 feet who hear the toast and drink along gain a +1 morale bonus to attack rolls, saving throws against fear, and saving throws against charm effects for 10 minutes. In addition, affected allies gain 1d4 + 1 temporary hit points (lasting for 1 hour).
    • Cooldown: Usable three times per in-game day.
  • Bident-Horn Belch (Devi-Scattering Fume):
    • Action Cost: One standard action.
    • Verbal / Casting Requirement: The wielder consumes a massive gulp of strong spirits from the horn and exhales forcefully through the mouth.
    • Effect: A 15-foot cone of flammable, spirit-laden aromatic vapor erupts from the wielder’s lips. Hostile creatures caught within the cone must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution (or Fortitude) saving throw or be blinded and coughing for 1 round by the stinging wine vapors. If exposed to an open flame or spark, the vapor ignites, dealing 2d4 fire damage to all creatures within the cone (halved on a successful DC 12 Reflex/Dexterity save).
    • Cooldown: Usable three times per in-game day.
  • Libation to the Thirsty Earth:
    • Action Cost: One standard action.
    • Verbal / Casting Requirement: The wielder pours a measured measure of wine from the horn onto the bare ground or stone floor in a protective circle while chanting the ancestral harvest rite.
    • Effect: A 10-foot radius ward of repelling earthen essence settles over the area for 10 minutes. Subterranean burrowing creatures, mud-demons, and hostile earth spirits (Devi) cannot enter or cross the wet boundary unless they succeed on a DC 12 Willpower/Wisdom saving throw. Allies standing within the libation circle gain advantage on saving throws against knockdowns, tremors, and forced movement.
    • Cooldown: Usable once per day (resets at dawn after the morning dew touches the grass).

Specific Gear Slot

  • Belt Slot or Torso Slot

Tags

  • satsnakheli, georgia, drinking-horn, libation, tamada, carnelian, tur-goat, wine, hospitality, toastmaster, common, tier-1, abjuration, vineyard, tur-horn, bronze-ram, continuous-draught, fellowship-ward, pine-resin, honey-amber, toast-magic, vapor-belch, earth-libation, intoxication-immunity, saffron-wool

Commerce and Acquisition of the Mountain Horn of Continuous Libation in Saṃsāra

  • Highland Viticulture Cooperatives and Press-House Cellars:
    • Physical Location and Structure: Located within cool, subterranean limestone cellars, terraced press-houses, and communal fermentation lodges nestled across the mountain vineyard valleys of Saṃsāra. The air smells strongly of crushed grapes, sulfur-cleaned oak barrels, beeswax, and sweet fermenting must.
    • Buying Procedure and Pricing: Regarded as sacred vessels of communal fellowship, these horns are blessed by local Tamada elders to ensure no harvest feast turns sour. The baseline retail price is 25 silver coins (2 gold coins and 5 silver coins).
    • Independent travelers, traveling hedgewitches, and itinerant cellar-hands pay the full 25 silver asking price.
    • Recognized members of the Viticulture Guild, village toastmasters, or agrarian avatars receive a standard institutional discount of 10% per tier level; a Tier 1 buyer pays 22 silver and 5 copper coins, while a Tier 2 buyer pays 20 silver coins.
    • Purchases are registered in communal cellar tallies or linked directly to the Mind’s Eye World Bank ledger.
    • Selling Procedure and Trade Log: Elders inspect returned horns for hairline cracks along the curve, checking that the carnelian cabochon still resonates with living heat when exposed to fresh spirits.
    • Buyouts follow the standard agrarian rate of 10% of the baseline retail price multiplied by the seller’s tier level; a Tier 1 avatar earns 2 silver and 5 copper coins, whereas a Tier 2 avatar receives 5 silver coins.
    • The horn’s lineage number 527 is recorded into the regional harvest register to keep track of consecrated vessels.
  • Wayside Caravanserai Taverns and Pilgrim Roadhouses:
    • Physical Location and Structure: Sprawling stone-and-timber inns located along dangerous trade passes, mountain crossroads, and river fords. The interiors are loud and smoky, filled with the aroma of roasting mutton, charred pine timber, spilled ale, and drying wool.
    • Buying Procedure and Pricing: Taverners and roadhouse keepers value these horns to keep rowdy patrons from succumbing to drunken brawls or poison while bolstering caravan guards against midnight ambushes. Due to heavy highway demand, retail cost rises to 35 silver coins (3 gold coins and 5 silver coins).
    • Wandering sellswords, teamsters, and unaffiliated adventurers pay the full 35 silver asking price.
    • Licensed caravan masters, guild-chartered heralds, or reputable road marshals presenting credentials receive the 10% tier discount, dropping the cost to 31 silver and 5 copper coins for Tier 1, or 28 silver coins for Tier 2.
    • Selling Procedure and Trade Log: Innkeepers frequently buy intact horns to replace broken tankards or upgrade the prestige of their taprooms.
    • Buyouts calculate from the 35 silver baseline; a Tier 1 seller receives 3 silver and 5 copper coins, while a Tier 2 seller earns 7 silver coins.
    • In lieu of coin, taverners often offer room, board, stabling, and sealed kegs of vintage brandy.
  • Metropolitan Antiquarian Salons and Diplomatic Curios:
    • Physical Location and Structure: Prestigious, carpeted showrooms situated in noble estates, diplomatic consulates, and high-end guild districts of inland capital cities. The rooms feature polished walnut display cases, heavy draperies, and the subtle scent of lavender wax and aged port.
    • Buying Procedure and Pricing: Marketed as premier ceremonial artifacts of traditional hospitality, used by ambassadors and wealthy nobles to guarantee poison-free feasts and maintain clarity during intense political negotiations. Retail price sits at 45 silver coins (4 gold coins and 5 silver coins).
    • Wealthy merchants, courtiers, and private collectors pay the full 45 silver coins.
    • Chartered scholars of the Arcane College, state diplomats, or recognized avatars with civic commendations receive the 10% tier discount, paying 40 silver and 5 copper coins at Tier 1 or 36 silver coins at Tier 2.
    • Each horn is sold with an authentic genealogical parchment and an embossed leather carrying harness.
    • Selling Procedure and Trade Log: Curio merchants verify the carnelian’s authenticity by dropping a trace of snake venom into wine within the vessel to observe the cleansing flash.
    • Sellers receive the standard buyout of 10% per tier level (yielding 4 silver and 5 copper coins to a Tier 1 avatar, or 9 silver coins to a Tier 2 avatar).
    • The sale is logged in the municipal guild registry.
  • Frontier Garrison Outposts and Mining Camp Canteens:
    • Physical Location and Structure: Rough-hewn log bunkhouses and cavernous mess halls built within fortified mountain keeps or deep subterranean excavation hubs. The atmosphere smells of stale sweat, lamp oil, black powder, and harsh grain spirits.
    • Buying Procedure and Pricing: Highly coveted by forward scouts, tunnel sentries, and squad sergeants who rely on the horn to bolster morale against subterranean terrors and clear poisonous cavern air. Scarcity drives the frontier canteen price to 40 to 50 silver coins.
    • Unranked prospectors and rogue mercenaries must pay the inflated frontier rate in hard coin.
    • Commissioned garrison officers or certified fortress engineers receive standard military requisitions, dropping the cost to 36 silver coins for a Tier 1 buyer or 32 silver coins for a Tier 2 buyer based on a 40 silver baseline.
    • Selling Procedure and Trade Log: Quartermasters readily purchase horns to issue to vanguard tunnel-clearing squads.
    • Sellers receive the standard 10% tier payout based on the local baseline in minted silver, raw copper ingots, or standard field rations, entered directly into the garrison armory logbook.

Tactical Roleplay of the Mountain Horn of Continuous Libation Across the Environments of Saṃsāra

  • Alpine Vineyards and Mountain Passes:
    • Environmental Context: Exposed rocky ledges, freezing alpine winds, thinning air, treacherous goat-tracks, sudden mountain squalls, and stalking predators or bandits.
    • Defensive Roleplay:
      • When a sudden blizzard catches the party on a high ridge, the bearer shares swallows of spiced wine via Endless Draught of the Toastmaster. Under the effects of Jovial Fortitude, the liquid warms their blood, warding off hypothermia and mountain lethargy without intoxicating their senses or impairing their footing on the narrow switchbacks.
      • Facing a nocturnal ambush from mountain bandits, the bearer initiates Tamada’s Resonant Toast. Shouting a thunderous toast that echoes across the crags, the wielder dispels the dread of the dark, conferring bonus temporary hit points and bolstering the party’s morale to hold the line against overwhelming numbers.
    • Offensive Roleplay:
      • In a tight pass blocked by mountain brigands, the wielder swigs deeply from the horn and unleashes Bident-Horn Belch. A fifteen-foot plume of stinging, alcohol-laden vapor blinds the front rank of shield-bearers, coughing and disoriented; an ally then strikes a flint spark, detonating the vapor cloud into a sheet of fire that sweeps the ledge.
      • When pursuing enemies down a steep incline, the bearer uses the horn to rally charging allies, granting heightened offensive focus and momentum to break through defensive breastworks.
  • Subterranean Karst Caverns and Deep Mining Drifts:
    • Environmental Context: Lightless limestone chasms, stagnant sinkholes, damp air, claustrophobia, subterranean cave-ins, and chthonic burrowers or spiteful earth demons (Devi).
    • Defensive Roleplay:
      • Camped in a hollow limestone vault prone to tunneling horrors, the wielder pours a steady circle of wine onto the bedrock using Libation to the Thirsty Earth. The consecrated wine barrier prevents subterranean burrowers and wandering Devi from breaching the campsite, while keeping resting allies steady against tremors or collapse.
      • If forced to drink from stagnant, mineral-heavy cave runoff to survive, pouring the murky brine through the horn invokes Taint-Cleansing Resin, instantly stripping out cave leeches, toxic silt, and stagnant rot before consumption.
    • Offensive Roleplay:
      • Confronting a lumbering subterranean behemoth or troglodyte pack in a choke point, the wielder exhales Bident-Horn Belch into the tunnel. The concentrated alcohol mist displaces stale cavern air, burning the creatures’ sensitive eyes and driving them back toward a prepared pit trap.
      • Raising the horn in the pitch-black tunnels to proclaim the Tamada’s Resonant Toast, the sonic boom of the toast shatters the unnatural silence, clearing away psychic dread and inspiring allies to mount a decisive charge into the beast’s den.
  • Arid Deserts, Salt Pans, and Sun-Bleached Badlands:
    • Environmental Context: Scorching heat waves, parched canyon floors, deceptive mirages, dried-up waterholes, sunstroke, and nomadic raiders.
    • Defensive Roleplay:
      • When local wells run dry and waterskins turn to cracked leather, Endless Draught of the Toastmaster provides steady liquid sustenance, condensing potable wine and grape must every hour to prevent the party from perishing of dehydration under the midday sun.
      • Cornered at an ancient desert shrine by raiders who poisoned the oasis, the wielder tests the water using the horn’s Taint-Cleansing Resin. The carnelian stone flashes crimson to warn against supernatural venoms, allowing the party to purify their supply safely before drinking.
    • Offensive Roleplay:
      • Engaging evasive skirmishers among the sand dunes, the wielder bellows the Tamada’s Resonant Toast, granting allies the stamina and morale needed to close the distance despite the oppressive desert heat.
      • As raiders close into melee around the party’s pack camels, the wielder drinks deeply and exhales Bident-Horn Belch. In the dry, desiccated air, the spirit fumes ignite easily from a raised torch, unleashing a rolling burst of flame that scatters camel cavalry and burns through dry leather armor.
  • Flooded Marshes, Swamplands, and Mangrove Estuaries:
    • Environmental Context: Stagnant black water, marsh gas pockets, disease-carrying midges, deep muck, and aquatic ambushes.
    • Defensive Roleplay:
      • Wading through foul, rot-choked fen water, the bearer continuously shares small draughts protected by Jovial Fortitude, keeping the company immune to marsh ague, swamp fevers, and the depressing malaise that hangs over peat bogs.
      • When establishing a perimeter on a small mud hummock, the wielder pours wine into the muck with Libation to the Thirsty Earth. The ward sets a firm boundary, turning the mud beneath their feet solid, resisting sudden sinkholes, and barring mud-spirits from dragging sentries into the mire.
    • Offensive Roleplay:
      • Stalking swamp raiders through thick reed beds, the bearer tracks an enemy camp and issues the Tamada’s Resonant Toast, filling allies with roaring courage that shakes the bog and allows them to hit through defensive ambushes.
      • Trapped in close quarters on an unstable raft against water-bound predators, the wielder exhales Bident-Horn Belch across the water’s surface. The stinging alcohol vapor drives surface hunters below, clearing space for allies to navigate the raft to dry land.

Perception of Activation:

  • User’s Perspective:
    • Sight:
      • The carnelian cabochon set in the forehead of the bronze ram’s head flares with an incandescent amber and molten gold fire.
      • The surface of the dark wine within the horn begins to ripple from within, catching the amber light and throwing dancing, solar caustic patterns across the wielder’s hand and sleeves.
      • The three chased bronze bands of grapes and piala bowls glow with faint, running golden filigree lines, and a gentle, shimmering heat haze wafts from the vessel’s rim.
    • Sound:
      • A low, resonant brass chime hums through the horn, vibrating directly into the bones of the wielder’s fingers.
      • When drinking, the wielder hears the distant, joyful roar of an ancestral feast—the clatter of raised cups, harmonic polyphonic singing, and laughter that drowns out silence or ambient battle noise.
      • The braided wool suspension harness rustles softly with a dry, rhythmic hiss like wind through autumn grape leaves.
    • Touch:
      • The horn’s polished surface turns pleasantly warm to the touch, resembling smooth river stone baked under a midday sun.
      • As the draft is swallowed, a surge of invigorating heat spreads from the chest through the extremities, instantly dissolving muscle stiffness, chills, and nervous tremors.
      • The rim against the lips feels silky and warm, carrying a gentle vibration that matches the user’s heartbeat.
    • Smell:
      • The air fills with a rich bouquet of spiced highland wine, sweet fermented wildflower honey, charred oak casks, and wild crushed mountain mint.
      • A subtle trace of melting pine-resin and beeswax rises from the interior lining, grounding the aromatic sweetness.
    • Taste:
      • The tongue experiences a full-bodied, velvety swallow of spiced blackberry and dark grape must, balanced by notes of cinnamon, clove, and toasted honeycomb.
      • The finish is clean, warm, and slightly dry, leaving behind a refreshing aftertaste of cool mountain mint without any alcoholic burn or bitterness.
    • Extra-Sensory Perception:
      • Hearth-Bound Empathy: The wielder feels a warm, tethering resonance linking them to every ally within the radius, intuitively registering their emotional resolve, fear, and fatigue.
      • Threshold Authority: An overwhelming impression of unshakeable presence fills the user’s psyche, feeling as though they stand at the reinforced gates of an ancient mountain stronghold that no malice can breach.
      • Solar Grounding: The wielder perceives the vital energy of the sun captured within the earth’s roots, granting a profound psychic detachment from fear, dread, and despair.
  • Observer’s Perspective:
    • Sight:
      • The carnelian stone ignites like a glowing coal, casting a brilliant orange halo across the wielder’s face and chest.
      • The bronze ram’s head and carved drinking rim gleam as though newly cast in liquid gold, while ribbons of warm, translucent amber vapor curl upward from the horn.
      • The wielder’s posture visibly straightens, their skin taking on a healthy, sunlit flush as their eyes reflect the carnelian’s warm fire.
    • Sound:
      • Allies hear a sharp, resonant tone like a struck brass gong that echoes unnaturally far, cutting through shouting, howling wind, or monstrous roars.
      • The wielder’s spoken toast carries unexpected acoustic weight, sounding amplified and layered with distant, phantom voices joining in chorus.
    • Touch:
      • Observers standing within fifteen feet feel a wave of soothing, dry radiant heat, like stepping in front of a stoked stone hearth in the middle of winter.
      • Those partaking in the toast feel an instant tingling across their skin as minor aches and shivering fade away.
    • Smell:
      • The ambient atmosphere is overtaken by the unmistakable, festive aroma of mulled wine, toasted grain, and fresh mint, completely masking foul sewer stenches or rotting swamp gas.
    • Taste:
      • Observers who drink along experience the sudden sensation of spiced honey and sweet grape must coating their palates, regardless of what beverage was originally in their own cups.
    • Extra-Sensory Perception:
      • Friendly creatures feel an immediate lifting of mental fog and crushing anxiety, replaced by an innate, stubborn courage.
      • Malevolent spirits, undead, and chthonic entities (Devi) perceive the wielder as an offensive, blazing hearth of blinding solar energy, creating an instinctual hesitation to approach.
  • Positives:
    • Immediate Morale and Vigor:
      • Grants a tangible morale boost and temporary hit points to the wielder and allies, stabilizing shaken formations in combat.
    • Constant Clean Sustenance:
      • Provides an endless passive supply of clean liquid and completely neutralizes nonmagical poisons and spoiled fluids poured into the horn.
    • Functional Inebriation:
      • The wielder benefits from the courage, pain suppression, and warmth of alcohol without suffering any loss of coordination, motor function, or mental acuity.
    • Versatile Battlefield Utility:
      • Offers both offensive zoning (flammable spirit vapor) and defensive ground denial (consecrated earth libation circle).
  • Negatives:
    • Unconcealable Light and Sound:
      • The brilliant amber illumination and booming acoustic resonance make stealth, covert ambushes, or hidden camping virtually impossible while the horn is active.
    • Heavy Olfactory Footprint:
      • The strong scent of spiced wine and warm honey carries far on the wind, potentially drawing wild predators, trackers, or bandit patrols toward the group’s location.
    • Action and Resource Consumption:
      • Activating the major abilities requires standard actions, vocalization, and consuming or pouring out physical liquid, limiting its use when silenced, gagged, or restrained.
    • False Bravado Risk:
      • The intense euphoria and total suppression of fear may tempt less disciplined avatars into overestimating their physical limits or underestimating dangerous tactical odds.

Crafting Recipe: Satsnakheli Mountain Horn of Continuous Libation

  • Materials Needed:
    • 1 naturally shed horn of an adult Caucasian mountain goat (tur), roughly fourteen to sixteen inches long, free from structural fissures.
    • 1 Tier 1 magic crystal (a smooth, round, deep amber-colored carnelian cabochon displaying internal ember-like warmth).
    • 1 cast bronze ram’s head terminal finial with spiraled horns, a hollow interior socket, and an open forehead bezel.
    • 1 strip of hand-hammered sheet bronze (approx. two inches wide and twelve inches long, for the rim collar).
    • 12 feet of hand-spun mountain sheep’s wool cord (divided into two equal lengths: one dyed wine-red with madder root, one dyed saffron-gold with wild crocus).
    • 1 dark-oiled goatskin leather baldric strap (forty-eight inches long, fitted with a brass buckle and suspension loops).
    • 4 ounces of natural highland pine resin mixed with raw mountain beeswax (food-safe lining sealant).
    • 1 pint of strong, double-distilled highland grape brandy (chacha).
    • 1 pint of aged red wine must (saperavi) taken from the bottom of an earthenware kvevri.
    • 1 small handful of dried wild mountain mint and toasted oak shavings.
  • Tools Required:
    • 1 Horn scraper, curved draw-knife, and fine abrasive sands (pumice and horn-polishing powder).
    • 1 Bronze-casting crucible, ladle, and jeweler’s chasing hammers.
    • 1 Set of fine decorative steel punches (grape cluster, vine tendril, and piala cup motifs).
    • 1 Hand-drill with bone or bronze bits.
    • 1 Small copper boiling pot and brazier (for resin melting).
    • 1 Soft wool buffing cloth and bone burnisher.
  • Skill Requirements:
    • Horncarving and Lapidary: Minimum skill rank of 3.
    • Bronze Smithing and Chasing: Minimum skill rank of 2.
    • Mind’s Eye Focusing / Satsnakheli Hospitality Rituals: Minimum skill rank of 2 (required to align the carnelian’s elemental resonance and awaken the perpetual libation ward).
  • Crafting Steps:
    • Preparing and Shaping the Horn:
      • Boil the raw mountain goat horn in river water with toasted oak shavings to soften the inner core, cleanly extracting the pith.
      • Use the curved draw-knife and scrapers to thin the walls to an even thickness of three to four millimeters, preserving the natural color striations of honey-amber, charcoal, and cream.
      • Smooth and polish the exterior using wet pumice powder and buff with a soft cloth until a glossy finish is achieved.
      • Trim the tip cleanly to accept the bronze ram’s head sleeve and square off the wide drinking rim.
    • Forging and Chasing the Bronze Fittings:
      • Shape the sheet bronze into a tapered collar ring that snugly fits the mouth of the horn.
      • Anneal the bronze collar and use chasing punches to stamp three repeating friezes: running grapevine tendrils, full grape clusters, and traditional Georgian piala drinking bowls.
      • Cast the hollow bronze ram’s head terminal with curled horns, filing the socket to seat precisely over the tapered horn tip and piercing two eyelets through the bronze base for the suspension cord.
      • Carve an open circular bezel seat into the forehead of the ram’s head to receive the carnelian cabochon.
    • Assembling and Sealing the Vessel:
      • Heat the pine resin and beeswax mixture until liquid, adding a pinch of dried mountain mint for preservation and scent.
      • Pour the hot resin mixture into the horn, swirling it evenly across the inner walls to create a watertight, sterile coating that shields the horn from alcohol erosion.
      • Affix the decorative bronze collar to the wide rim and secure the bronze ram’s head finial onto the horn tip using a thin layer of molten pine resin as adhesive.
      • Set the amber carnelian cabochon into the ram’s forehead bezel, burnishing the bronze lips inward to lock the gem firmly in place.
    • Harnessing and Suspension:
      • Braid the wine-red and saffron-gold wool cords into a tight, three-ply harness around the body of the horn, tying slip-knots around the midsection.
      • Thread the lower cord through the eyelets of the bronze ram’s head finial, securing the base.
      • Attach the braided wool harness to the oiled goatskin baldric, ensuring the vessel hangs balanced at hip level.
    • Consecration and Satsnakheli Awakening:
      • Fill the horn to its bronze rim with a blend of strong grape brandy and rich red wine must.
      • Recite the ancient three-part Tamada blessing over the vessel, toasting first to the stability of the earth, second to the defense of the threshold, and third to the fellowship of those who drink without treachery.
      • Channel mental energy through the Mind’s Eye into the carnelian crystal until it absorbs the warmth of the libation, igniting with an inner amber glow.
      • Drink the entire contents in one continuous draught, allowing the vessel to dry in the sun while murmuring the sealing ward. Once complete, the horn will emit the permanent aroma of mulled wine, toasted oak, and wild mint, fully attuned to the rite of continuous libation.

Sawn Bone-Plates of High Valley Concerning Horn of Feast-Speaker and Three-Headed Mountain-Eater Who Came Down in Cold Moon

In the count of four-and-forty turnings of the water-wheel, before the kings of the flat clay had learned to write with sharp reeds upon bricks, there stood in the high rock-saddle of the upper snows a strong house of piled schist-stone without lime. The master of this stone hearth was a man of long sinews whose name in the notched cedar-tallies was recorded as The-Mouth-Which-Does-Not-Stumble, though the goatherds who drive their flock through the red shale named him only Giorgi the Great-Throat, Master of the Low-Bench. He was neither a striker with broad axes nor a counter of silver discs; he was the Tamada of the nine villages that hang upon the limestone ribs of the mountain like swarms of wild wasps.

In that era the earth was not tame. Out of the deep crevices where the black water runs beneath the karst, there walked forth the children of the hollow earth, whose bodies were like grey river-mud and whose breath was like the stink of rotten skins forgotten in a wet pit. Chief among these was the three-headed Devi whose name in the foreign tongue has the sound of Black-Hoof-of-the-Ravine. His three heads were not alike: the right head was like the head of a blind mountain-bear that eats winter carrion; the left head was like the head of a horned viper with scales of rusted iron; and the middle head was like the face of a fat, wicked elder who has drowned five brothers in a mash-vat.

Now the middle head of the Devi had a thirst that could not be cooled with the ice of the glacier. When the sun dropped behind the teeth of the rock, the monster would come down upon the villages of the terrace, not to burn the hay-stacks, but to tear the heavy flat stone-lids from the subterranean earthen jars (kvevri) buried in the loam. He would thrust his great shovel-neck into the wine-holes and suck until the skins of the vessels were dry and cracked, leaving the poor men of the vine with only bitter lees and vinegar. And if any shepherd cried out against him, the left head of the beast would spit a venom of blue rot upon his sheep, while the right head crushed his ribs against the boundary stones.

“Behold,” howled the three throats of the monster from the top of the scree, “the earth belongs to the thirst that is greatest! If the masters of the terrace do not bring down to the flat gravel ninety earthen vessels of red must before the feast of the split calf, I will take the red water from the necks of their daughters and stamp their stone houses into small flour!”

The mountain folk gathered upon the flagstones before the hearth of Giorgi. Their hands were shaking like dry hazel-leaves, and their faces were grey like ashes when the grease is spent.

“The nine valleys have not ninety jars,” wept the elders, tearing the sheepskin collars of their cloaks. “The frost of the third moon bit the tender shoots upon the slate. We have only our seed-grain and three small casks of pressed juice. If we give this to the mud-demon, our children will perish in the white winter; and if we keep it, he will pull the roof-trees down upon our beds.”

Then Giorgi rose from his three-legged bench of walnut wood. Across his chest, hanging from a broad baldric of goatskin rubbed with mountain lard, swung a great curved horn taken from the skull of a king-tur whose horns were five cubits wide. The lip of the horn was bound in heavy bronze that had been beaten with small hammers to show running grape-sprigs and four-and-twenty small bowls; its sharp foot was thrust into a bronze ram’s head that held curled horns of beaten copper; and between the eyes of the ram sat an amber-colored carnelian stone that shone like an ember blown upon through a hollow willow-pipe in the dark.

“A guest who knocks at the door with iron,” spake Giorgi, and his voice was like two heavy millstones grinding dry grain, “is not driven away with stones, for the law of the mountain says that the house-master must set the table even if the devil himself sits upon the low stool. We will not take lances of pig-iron, nor will we dig pit-traps in the gravel. We will invite the mountain-eater to the bench of honor; we will fill the cup of the threshold; and we will see whether his belly is deeper than the root of the mountain.”

The people cried out that he had lost his five wits to the madness of the grape-spirit, but Giorgi took only his horn, a single goatskin flask of double-boiled mountain spirits (chacha), and three flat loaves of barley-bread baked with salt. He walked up the ravine alone, where the black mist smells of wet sulfur and dead snakes, until he stood before the cavern of the Devi.

The monster crawled out of the cleft like a great slug, his twelve claws scraping the slate. His three mouths were open, dripping yellow slobber that burned the moss where it fell.

“Little worm of the field,” bellowed the middle head, “have you brought the ninety jars upon your bent back, or do I eat you with wild leeks before the moon climbs the pass?”

Giorgi did not bow his knees, nor did he drop the horn. He pulled the stopper from his goatskin flask and filled the great tur-horn until the clear, fiery liquid reached the carved bronze rim. The carnelian cabochon upon the ram’s forehead immediately flared with a bright, smoky gold light, like the torch of a watch-tower when the enemy crosses the ditch.

“The sons of the vine do not carry jars like pack-mules to a ditch,” said Giorgi, speaking in the formal high language of the nine toasts. “A mountain-man does not deal with a noble dweller of the crags in the manner of a cattle-trader. You have spoken of thirst, and I am the Tamada of the high saddle. The first law of the rock is hospitality: no stranger shall be turned away parched from the gate while the horn has a tongue. If you would have the juice of the nine terraces, you must first sit upon the stone of guest-friendship, raise the cup of the ancestors, and empty this small vessel of horn to the health of the threshold.”

The middle head of the beast laughed with a sound like a landslip into a dry gorge.

“Do you mock the stomach of the mountain with a single goat’s claw?” sneered the monster. “I can drink a river until the river-fish are baked upon dry clay! Give me the bone, little meat-man, and when I have licked it dry, I will crack your shin-bones for the sweet marrow!”

The Devi reached out his broad claw, which was hairy like an old badger’s paw, and seized the horn. He tipped the rim into his middle mouth and swallowed the fire-water in a single gulp.

Now the spirit of the horn was not the weak drink of the plains. As the liquor washed over the monster’s tongue, the carnelian stone pulsed with a heat like a forge-fire. The pine-resin within the horn stirred, and instead of remaining empty, the vessel instantly filled itself to the bronze lip with a dark, heavy, sweet wine that bubbled like boiling pitch.

“Hah!” grunted the Devi, wiping his beard with his forearm. “The taste is small, but the belly feels a strange warmth. It is empty—now give me your throat!”

“The horn is not empty,” said Giorgi, smiling with his seven white teeth. “A true feast-guest does not set down the vessel while the wine-eye sleeps upon the rim. It is the law of the Tamada: to every guest three toasts are owed before the knife is drawn. The first was to the threshold; the second is to the mothers who carried the water-jugs to the vineyard!”

The monster looked into the mouth of the horn and saw the red must swirling like a whirlpool beneath the bronze rim. The pride of the brute was great; he could not endure that a hairless man should say his gullet was narrow. The bear-head upon his right shoulder lunged forward and took the horn, gulping the liquid down its throat with a roar like water plunging into a sinkhole.

Yet no sooner had the right head finished the draught than the vessel filled again, cold and sweet like juice crushed that very morning from wild mountain berries. The carnelian glowed brighter, throwing long orange beams across the black slate walls of the chasm.

“The third toast,” shouted Giorgi, raising his hand toward the northern peaks, “is to the stone bones of the earth that do not break when the great bull stamps his foot!”

The viper-head upon the left shoulder hissed with rage, snapping the horn from the bear-head’s jaw. It drank until the horn made a sucking sound like an empty lung; but the moment its iron teeth left the bronze rim, a fountain of spiced, honeyed must welled up from the beeswax lining, filling the cup until the red drops spilled over the chased bronze friezes onto the stones.

For three watches of the night, while the seven stars of the Plough turned in the northern frost, the great contest continued upon the shale.

The monster drank with his right mouth until the bear-head’s eyes turned red and watery like boiled onions. He drank with his left mouth until the iron viper-scales turned soft and slick like wet leather. He drank with his middle mouth until his belly swelled like the skin of a bull dragged through a mill-pond.

He drank the draught of nine pressed terraces; he drank the strength of forty summer suns; he drank the fiery essence of thirty cauldrons of distilled mash.

Yet the horn never ceased its giving. Whenever a mouth left the bronze collar, the amber stone flared, the ram’s horns hummed with the singing of thirty mountain harps, and the cool red stream rose anew to the rim, sweet, pure, and without end.

By the time the false dawn painted the snow with the color of cold lead, the limbs of the Devi had lost their iron malice. The bear-head was snoring with a wet, bubbling sound, dreaming of honey-trees that do not exist; the snake-head was curled around the neck of the middle head like a limp wool-fringe; and the middle head could neither spit venom nor utter threats. Its eyes were rolling in its brow like white stones in a torrent, and its tongue hung out of its mouth like an old piece of cured ham.

“Man of the little horn,” stammered the middle mouth, while its great belly sloshed from side to side like an ox-cart laden with water-barrels, “your well has no bottom… the mountain has entered my ribs… the world is spinning like a wool-spindle in the fingers of an old wife…”

“The horn has no bottom,” answered Giorgi, stepping forward and taking the cool horn back into his own hand, “because the hospitality of the righteous is wider than the sea, while the greed of the spoiler is a pit that chokes upon its own stone.”

Giorgi raised the horn to his own mouth. Though the monster had touched the rim with three foul jaws, the pine-resin and the burning carnelian had burned away all taint, leaving the draught pure as glacial runoff. Giorgi drank the last cup in honor of the morning star, his eyes clear and his arm steady.

Then, filling his chest with the great breath of the vine, Giorgi took a single swallow of the strong spirit and blew a roaring gust of breath against the breast of the drunken brute. The vapor of the unearthly spirits rolled across the stones like a cloud of autumn pollen.

Giorgi struck a small spark from his pocket-flint upon his iron knife.

The mist ignited with a sound like the cracking of dry roof-beams. A sheet of clear, amber-yellow flame swept over the sleeping beast—not the dirty black fire of charcoal that roasts meat, but the holy solar fire of the grape that burns away only the mud and the filth of the deep cavities.

The three-headed monster did not die in blood; he melted upon the cold slate like a snowman built by children when the warm southern wind breathes through the gorge. His black claws dissolved into grey silt; his three heads melted into streams of thick, yellow river-mud; and his great mountain-belly burst, pouring forth not venom or gore, but a clear, sweet-smelling spring of cold mountain water that washed the shale clean of all slime and rot.

Where the mud-demon had sat, there remained only a clear well of bubbling mineral water, surrounded by nine wild grapevines that sprang out of the cracked rock in the morning sun, their tendrils heavy with small, frost-hardened sweet berries.

Giorgi wiped the bronze ram’s head upon his woolen sleeve and hung the horn upon his hip. He walked down the mountain path to the nine villages, where the bells of bronze were ringing for the dawn, carrying neither wounds upon his skin nor the dullness of strong drink in his head, but singing with a voice that was like the rushing of a high cataract.

And the people of the high terraces laid down their iron spears, and they gathered in the stone press-house, where they drank from the horn that does not fail, learning from that day forward that no evil thing of the chthonic dark can overcome the man who turns his table into a shield and his hospitality into an unyielding wall.

This account was cut into the shoulder-blade of a wild ox by the scribe of the upper tower, which was afterward buried beneath the foundation-stones of the ancient cellar, being preserved in the dark until the diggers of the railway brought it once more to the light of the sun.

Moral of the Story

He who seeks to conquer through bottomless greed and brute violence will drown in the very abundance he desires to plunder; for true hospitality is not a weakness to be exploited, but an ancient and unyielding power that turns excessive malice against itself while sustaining the humble through the longest and coldest winter.

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Call of Cthulhu

The Mountain Horn of Continuous Libation

Enchanted Artifact / Caucasian Tamada Relic

  • Item Profile:
    • Item Type: Carried Implement / Folk Ritual Focus
    • Liquid Capacity: 1.5 pints
    • Form: A fourteen-inch curved horn of a wild Caucasian mountain goat (tur) exhibiting natural bands of honey-amber, charcoal, and cream. The rim is banded in stamped bronze displaying grape clusters and piala bowls, while the pointed tip is sheathed in a cast-bronze ram’s head set with a glowing round carnelian cabochon. Bound in saffron and wine-red wool, it exudes the permanent aroma of mulled wine, toasted oak, and mountain mint.
    • Sanity Cost: 0 Sanity to possess or drink from; 1 Sanity point upon witnessing the supernatural banishment of a mythos or chthonic entity via Libation to the Thirsty Earth.
  • Passive Traits:
    • Endless Draught: When fully drained during a genuine toast or communal meal, the horn passively condenses 1.5 pints of clean, spiced mountain table wine or grape must over 1 hour.
    • Taint-Cleansing Resin: Non-magical poisons, bacteria, and putrefaction in poured liquids are neutralized within 3 combat rounds. The carnelian cabochon flashes deep crimson if magical venom or alien fluid is introduced.
    • Jovial Fortitude: The drinker is immune to mundane alcohol poisoning, slurred speech, and loss of physical coordination; alcohol consumed from the vessel provides warmth and morale without imposing Penalty Dice on DEX or INT characteristics.
  • Active Powers:
    • Tamada’s Resonant Toast:
      • Cost: 2 Magic Points.
      • Mechanics: The wielder shouts an inspiring toast and drinks deeply. The user and up to four companions within 5 yards who partake gain a Bonus Die on Sanity checks against terror or panic for 10 minutes, along with +3 temporary Hit Points (lasting 1 hour).
    • Devi-Scattering Fume:
      • Cost: 2 Magic Points.
      • Mechanics: The user consumes a draught of strong spirits and forcefully exhales an alcohol mist in a 5-yard cone. Targets caught within must pass a Regular CON check or suffer a Penalty Die to all physical actions for 1 round due to stinging eyes and coughing. If exposed to an open flame, the cloud ignites, dealing 1D6 Fire damage (Regular DEX check halves).
    • Libation to the Thirsty Earth:
      • Cost: 3 Magic Points.
      • Mechanics: Pouring a full horn of wine onto the soil in an unbroken circle creates a 3-yard radius ward for 10 minutes. Subterranean burrowers, animated mud entities, and subterranean servitor races must succeed on an Opposed POW check against the wielder’s POW to cross the wet line. Allies standing inside gain a Bonus Die on checks to resist being knocked prone or physically displaced.

Blades in the Dark

The Hearth-Ward Horn

Arcane Implement, 1 Load

  • Item Profile:
    • Load: 1 (slung across the torso via goatskin baldric)
    • Appearance: A polished mountain-goat horn fitted with a bronze grapevine rim, saffron wool wrapping, and a bronze ram’s terminal finial set with an amber carnelian stone. Smells richly of mulled wine, pine resin, and wild mint.
    • Affinity: Folk abjuration, communal rites, courage, fire and spirit manipulation.
  • Passive Traits:
    • Endless Draught: The vessel automatically refills with a pint of potable, fortified spiced wine over downtime or during a lull in a score.
    • Cleansing Lining: Neutralizes common biological toxins and spoiled liquids poured into the horn. The carnelian flashes bright red if occult venom is detected.
    • Iron Liver: The bearer ignores harm or penalties associated with ordinary intoxication, remaining clear-headed and coordinated while under the influence of strong drink.
  • Active Arcane Abilities:
    • Tamada’s Resonant Toast:
      • Cost: 1 Stress.
      • Action: Command or Consort.
      • Effect: You lead a roaring toast before facing danger. You and up to three crew members within reach gain +1d to resist terror, despair, or supernatural intimidation during the next engagement, or clear 1 tick of mental fatigue.
    • Devi-Scattering Fume:
      • Cost: 1 Stress.
      • Action: Skirmish or Wreck.
      • Effect: You take a deep swig and exhale a plume of alcohol vapor across close range. Targets in the area lose their footing and are blinded for a moment (granting improved Position for an immediate follow-up). If ignited with a lantern or match, it produces a burst of flame with high Potency against flammable targets or swarms.
    • Libation to the Thirsty Earth:
      • Cost: 2 Stress.
      • Action: Attune.
      • Effect: You pour a measured circle of wine onto the ground. Chthonic entities, ghosts rooted in earth, and subterranean horrors cannot cross the boundary without suffering severe disruption (reduced Effect or forced retreat), and allies within the ring stand firm against tremors or forced movement.

Dungeons & Dragons

Horn of Continuous Libation

Wondrous Item, Common (Requires Attunement by an Avatar)

  • Item Profile:
    • Item Category: Wondrous Item / Focus
    • Weight: 1 lb. empty (2.5 lb. full)
    • Gear Slot: Belt or Torso
    • Description: A 14-inch polished mountain goat horn with a stamped bronze grapevine collar, a terminal bronze ram’s head housing a carnelian cabochon, and saffron-and-wine braided wool cords. The interior is sealed with pine resin and beeswax, permanently exuding the scent of spiced red wine, charred oak, and mountain mint.
  • Passive Traits:
    • Endless Draught of the Toastmaster: Whenever the horn is completely emptied during an earnest toast, communal meal, or short rest, it magically condenses 1.5 pints of nourishing, spiced mountain wine or sweet grape must over the course of 1 hour.
    • Taint-Cleansing Resin: Nonmagical poisons, impurities, and pathogens in liquids placed inside the horn are neutralized after 1 minute. The carnelian stone pulses a warning crimson if a magical poison or curse is poured into the vessel.
    • Jovial Fortitude: While drinking from this vessel, you are immune to nonmagical alcohol poisoning and the poisoned condition caused by alcoholic intoxication, retaining full motor coordination and cognitive clarity.
  • Active Features:
    • Tamada’s Resonant Toast (3/Day): As an action, you raise the filled horn, speak a traditional toast to fellowship, and take a drink. You and up to four allies within 15 feet who can hear you gain a +1 morale bonus on attack rolls and saving throws against being charmed or frightened for 10 minutes. Additionally, each affected creature gains 1d4 + 1 temporary hit points (lasting for 1 hour).
    • Bident-Horn Belch (3/Day): As an action, you drink deeply from the horn and exhale a 15-foot cone of flammable vapor. Creatures in the cone must make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be blinded until the end of their next turn. If the vapor comes into contact with an open flame or spark, it ignites, dealing 2d4 fire damage to all creatures in the area (DC 12 Dexterity saving throw for half damage).
    • Libation to the Thirsty Earth (1/Day): As an action, you pour a measure of wine in an unbroken 10-foot-radius circle on the ground around you. For 10 minutes, the area becomes consecrated against chthonic intrusion: burrowing creatures, mud elementals, and fiends cannot enter or burrow through the circle unless they succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw. Allies standing inside the circle have advantage on saving throws against being knocked prone or moved against their will.

Knave

Horn of Continuous Libation

Item (1 Slot, Hands: 1 to use)

  • Item Profile:
    • Inventory: Occupies 1 item slot.
    • Durability: 3 Quality.
    • Liquid Capacity: 1.5 pints.
    • Appearance: A banded mountain-goat horn with a chased bronze rim, an amber carnelian set in a bronze ram’s terminal, and saffron-red wool cords. Smells of mulled wine, toasted oak, and wild mint.
  • Item Rules:
    • Sustaining Horn: Once emptied during a meal or rest, the horn refills itself with clean, drinkable spiced wine over 1 hour, providing daily liquid rations.
    • Cleansing Vessel: Poured liquids are cleansed of common filth, rotten taint, and mundane poisons within 3 rounds. The carnelian glows bright red if magical poison is present.
    • Clear-Headed Drunk: The bearer never suffers penalties to Dexterity, Wisdom, or movement checks from drinking alcohol out of this horn.
    • Toast of Fellowship (3/Day):
      • Spend an action to raise the horn and toast your party.
      • You and up to 4 companions within hearing gain +1 on attack rolls and roll with Advantage on Wisdom saves against fear and morale breaks for 10 minutes, plus 1d4 temporary HP.
    • Spirit-Fume Breath (3/Day):
      • Spend an action to swallow strong spirits and exhale a 15-foot cone of alcohol vapor.
      • Targets must pass a Constitution save or be blinded and coughing for 1 round.
      • If exposed to a torch or spark, the cloud ignites for 2d4 fire damage (Dexterity save halves).
    • Earth Libation (1/Day):
      • Spend an action to pour wine onto bare earth in a 10-foot circle.
      • For 10 minutes, subterranean burrowers and earth beasts must make a Wisdom save to enter or tunnel beneath the circle, and allies inside roll with Advantage to resist being knocked down or shoved.

Fate

The Mountain Horn of Continuous Libation

Extra (Aspect and Stunts)

  • Item Profile:
    • Aspect: Sacred Drinking Horn of the Mountain Tamada
    • Description: A fourteen-inch curved horn of a wild Caucasian mountain goat (tur) displaying honey-amber and charcoal bands, banded in stamped bronze featuring grape clusters and piala bowls. The tip is capped with a cast-bronze ram’s head mounting an ember-hued carnelian cabochon, suspended by saffron and wine-red braided wool cords. The interior is sealed with pine resin and beeswax, permanently exuding the scent of spiced wine, charred oak, and wild mint.
  • Stunts and Mechanical Rules:
    • Endless Draught of the Toastmaster: The horn passively condenses a pint of light, spiced mountain wine or fresh grape must during a scene of rest, providing the bearer and their party with pure liquid sustenance in barren wastes without requiring a resource roll.
    • Taint-Cleansing Resin: The horn purges ordinary toxins, foul silt, and bacterial rot from any poured liquid within moments. Gain a +2 bonus to Notice or Lore to identify supernatural, magical, or alien poisons, signaled by the carnelian cabochon flaring crimson.
    • Jovial Fortitude: Gain a +2 bonus to Physique to resist the negative physical effects of overindulgence, nausea, cold exposure, or supernatural drunkenness while drinking from the horn.
    • Tamada’s Resonant Toast: Once per scene, spend 1 Fate Point and an action to declare a booming toast to fellowship and take a deep draught. You and up to four allies in your zone gain the boost Unshakable Fellowship with one free invoke each to defend against fear, charm, or morale degradation, along with clearing 1 box on your lowest physical stress track.
    • Bident-Horn Belch: Once per scene, you may take a standard action to swallow strong spirits and exhale a stinging alcohol vapor. Roll Shoot or Physique against the Physique of targets in your zone; on a success, create the situational aspect Blinded by Wine Vapor with one free invoke. If an ally introduces open fire or a spark, immediately clear the aspect to inflict a 2-shift physical fire hit across all affected targets.
    • Libation to the Thirsty Earth: Once per session, spend 1 Fate Point and an action to pour a circle of wine onto the soil or stone. This establishes the zone aspect Consecrated Threshold of the Earth with two free invokes. Chthonic entities, burrowers, and earth spirits cannot cross into the zone without overcoming great opposition (+4), and allies within the boundary gain a +2 bonus to defend against forced movement, knockdowns, and tremors.

Numenera & Cypher System

Satsnakheli Libation Horn

Artifact (Level 2)

  • Item Profile:
    • Level: 2
    • Form: A polished organic composite horn tipped with a micro-forged bronze ram’s head housing an amber photonic resonator bead, fitted with a stamped bronze lip and suspended on woven thermal-fiber cords.
    • Classification: Worn / Carried Implement (Belt or Shoulder Baldric)
    • Depletion: 1 in 1d20 (checked upon activating Tamada’s Resonant Toast, Devi-Scattering Fume, or Libation to the Thirsty Earth).
  • Passive Effects:
    • Molecular Draught: The vessel continuously condenses atmospheric humidity and nutrient compounds, generating 1.5 pints of clean, spiced energizing liquid every hour when completely drained.
    • Bio-Purification Chamber: Mundane biological toxins, pathogens, and particulate filth in liquids poured into the vessel are dismantled and neutralized in 3 rounds. The resonator bead pulses red if exotic or energy-based poisons are present.
    • Neuro-Stabilized Intoxication: The bearer suffers no impaired motor coordination, slurred speech, or sensory penalties from alcoholic beverages, gaining an asset on tasks to resist environmental hypothermia or physical despair.
  • Active Powers:
    • Tamada’s Resonant Toast (Action):
      • The user drinks deeply and shouts an inspiring rallying toast. The user and up to four allies within immediate range (10 feet) gain +1 to their next physical roll, and each recovers 2 points to a Pool of their choice (or gains 2 temporary points to their Might Pool for 1 hour). Check for Depletion.
    • Devi-Scattering Fume (Action):
      • The user consumes a measure of volatile spirits and exhales a pressurized cloud of aerosolized alcohol in an immediate cone (10 feet). Hostile targets within the cone find all tasks hindered by one step for 1 round due to chemical irritation in the eyes and lungs. If exposed to flame, the cloud detonates, inflicting 3 points of ambient fire damage to all targets in the cone. Check for Depletion.
    • Libation to the Thirsty Earth (Action):
      • The user empties a full measure of wine in an unbroken circle across the floor. For 10 minutes, chthonic subterranean burrowers and anomalous earth entities cannot penetrate or burrow across the perimeter (tasks to enter are hindered by two steps). Allies within the circle have all tasks to resist knockdowns, gravitational anomalies, or seismic displacement eased by one step. Check for Depletion.

Pathfinder

Mountain Horn of Continuous Libation

Item 2

Abjuration, Magical, Primal

  • Item Profile:
    • Price: 35 gp
    • Usage: Worn (belt or shoulder strap), held in 1 hand to use
    • Bulk: L (empty), 1 Bulk (full)
    • Description: A fourteen-inch curved horn of a mountain goat banded in stamped bronze displaying grape clusters and piala bowls. The narrow tip is encased in a cast-bronze ram’s head housing a smooth carnelian cabochon, suspended by saffron-and-red braided wool cords. The interior is coated in mint-infused pine resin and beeswax, continually exuding the fragrance of mulled wine, toasted oak, and fresh mint.
  • Passive Effects:
    • Endless Draught of the Toastmaster: If the horn is fully drained during a communal toast or rest, it magically condenses 1.5 pints of clean, spiced mountain table wine or grape must over 1 hour, providing sufficient hydration and sustenance for an adult traveler.
    • Taint-Cleansing Resin: Nonmagical poisons, stagnant sludge, and biological impurities placed in the horn are cleansed and made potable after 3 rounds. The carnelian cabochon flashes crimson if magical or supernatural venom enters the vessel.
    • Jovial Fortitude: The wielder is immune to nonmagical alcohol poisoning and the sickened condition arising from inebriation, retaining full motor control and balance while drinking.
  • Active Abilities:
    • Tamada’s Resonant Toast (Two Actions):
      • Frequency: Three times per day.
      • Traits: Auditory, Emotion, Mental, Primal.
      • Effect: You proclaim a traditional toast to fellowship and drink deeply. You and up to four allies within a 15-foot emanation gain a +1 status bonus on attack rolls, saves against fear, and saves against charm effects for 10 minutes. Each affected target also gains 1d4 + 1 temporary Hit Points (lasting for 1 hour).
    • Devi-Scattering Fume (Two Actions):
      • Frequency: Three times per day.
      • Traits: Evocation, Fire, Primal.
      • Effect: You drink a gulp of spirits and exhale an aerosolized cloud of stinging vapor in a 15-foot cone. Creatures in the area must attempt a DC 16 Fortitude save or become dazzled for 1 round (blinded for 1 round on a critical failure). If an open flame or fire effect touches the cone within the same round, the vapor ignites, dealing 2d6 fire damage (DC 16 basic Reflex save).
    • Libation to the Thirsty Earth (Two Actions):
      • Frequency: Once per day.
      • Traits: Abjuration, Manipulate, Primal.
      • Effect: You pour a measured ring of wine onto the soil or stone in a 10-foot emanation. The circle remains consecrated for 10 minutes. Burrowing creatures and creatures with the earth trait must succeed on a DC 16 Will save to enter or burrow into the area. Allies standing inside the circle gain a +2 circumstance bonus to their Fortitude DC and Reflex DC against Shove, Trip, and effects that would move them.

Savage Worlds

The Mountain Libation Horn

Minor Arcane Relic

  • Item Profile:
    • Weight: 1 lb. empty (2.5 lbs. full)
    • Traits: Carried / Worn Relic
    • Description: A curved Caucasian mountain goat horn polished to a high sheen, bound in a chased bronze rim showing grape bunches and piala drinking vessels. The pointed end terminates in a bronze ram’s head set with an amber carnelian stone, strung with saffron-gold and wine-red cords. Smells of mulled red wine, pine resin, and wild mint.
  • Passive Abilities:
    • Endless Draught: The horn passively refills itself with a pint of potable, fortified spiced wine or grape must during a 1-hour rest or travel interval, meeting hydration needs in arid environments.
    • Taint-Cleansing Resin: The horn purges mundane poisons, sickness, and foul water within 3 rounds. The carnelian cabochon glows bright crimson if supernatural toxins or alchemical venoms touch the interior.
    • Jovial Fortitude: The bearer ignores Fatigue penalties caused by cold weather or ordinary alcohol consumption, remaining steady-handed, sharp-witted, and coordinated regardless of how much wine is consumed.
  • Active Powers:
    • Tamada’s Resonant Toast:
      • Cost: Action.
      • Frequency: 3 times per day.
      • Trapping: Raising the horn high and shouting a hearty toast before taking a deep swig.
      • Effect: The wielder and up to four allies within a Medium Blast Template gain a +1 bonus to Spirit rolls to recover from Shaken and resist Fear for 10 minutes, along with a temporary +1 Toughness bonus that lasts for 1 hour (does not stack with itself).
    • Devi-Scattering Fume:
      • Cost: Action.
      • Frequency: 3 times per day.
      • Trapping: Exhaling a cloud of alcohol vapor across close quarters.
      • Effect: Uses the Cone Template originating from the wielder. Creatures within the template must succeed on a Vigor roll or suffer a Distracted state and a –2 penalty to Notice rolls for 1 round from eye irritation. If an open flame touches the template, it combusts, dealing 2d6 Fire damage (Agility roll for half).
    • Libation to the Thirsty Earth:
      • Cost: Action.
      • Frequency: Once per day.
      • Trapping: Pouring wine from the horn in an unbroken circle upon the ground.
      • Effect: Creates a consecrated Medium Blast Template centered on the wielder that lasts for 10 minutes. Subterranean burrowers, mud elementals, and hostile earth spirits must succeed on an opposed Spirit roll against the wielder to enter or tunnel beneath the area. Allies standing within the circle gain a +2 bonus to resist being knocked Prone, Pushed, or physically displaced.

Shadowrun

The Mountain Libation Focus

Qi / Sustaining Focus (Force 2 / Abjuration & Health Affinity)

  • Item Profile:
    • Type: Sustaining Focus or Qi Focus (Health / Manipulation)
    • Force: 2
    • Availability: 5R
    • Cost: 16,000¥
    • Weight: 0.5 kg (empty), 1.1 kg (full)
    • Form: A polished fourteen-inch drinking horn taken from a wild Caucasian mountain goat (tur), banded with a hand-beaten bronze collar depicting running grapevines and piala drinking bowls. The narrow tip is encased in a cast-bronze ram’s head housing a smooth, amber-glowing carnelian cabochon. Suspended from a dark-oiled leather strap with braided wine-red and saffron wool cords.
    • Astral Signature: Bright golden-amber aura swirling with the rich olfactory signatures of spiced vintage wine, charred oak casks, and wild mint.
  • Passive Traits:
    • Endless Draught: When emptied during an authentic toast or communal respite, the focus slowly condenses 0.7 liters of pure, spiced mountain wine over 1 hour, providing drinkable nourishment in toxic or arid zones.
    • Taint-Cleansing Resin: Liquids placed within the vessel are cleansed of mundane chemical contaminants, nonmagical toxins, and biological pathogens within 3 combat rounds. The carnelian stone pulses a bright, warning crimson if supernatural poisons, weaponized bio-toxins, or nanotech vectors are introduced.
    • Jovial Fortitude: The bearer is immune to mundane alcohol poisoning, slurred speech, and physical disorientation; drinking from the vessel provides warmth and morale without imposing negative dice pool modifiers on Agility, Reaction, or Logic.
  • Active Features:
    • Tamada’s Resonant Toast:
      • Action: Complex Action
      • Cost: 1 Drain (Stun)
      • Mechanics: Raising the horn and declaring a booming toast to fellowship, the wielder and up to four allies within 5 meters gain a +1 dice pool modifier to resist fear, intimidation, and mental manipulation for 10 minutes, as well as +2 temporary boxes on their Stun Condition Monitor (lasting 1 hour).
    • Devi-Scattering Fume:
      • Action: Complex Action
      • Cost: 1 Drain (Stun)
      • Mechanics: The wielder drinks deeply and forcefully exhales a 5-meter cone of aerosolized spirit vapor. Targets caught in the area must pass a Body + Willpower Test against threshold 2 or suffer a –2 dice pool penalty to physical actions for 1 combat turn due to stinging eyes and choking vapors. If exposed to a spark, flare, or muzzle flash, the cloud combusts, inflicting 4P Fire damage (resisted with Armor + Body).
    • Libation to the Thirsty Earth:
      • Action: Complex Action
      • Cost: 2 Drain (Stun)
      • Mechanics: The wielder pours wine in an unbroken circle across the floor, consecrating a 3-meter radius for 10 minutes. Subterranean burrowing creatures, hostile earth spirits, and insectoid paracritters cannot cross the boundary without succeeding on an opposed Magic + Willpower Test against the wielder. Allies standing within the circle receive a +2 dice pool modifier to resist knockdowns, ramming attacks, or forced physical displacement.

Starfinder

Satsnakheli Libation Horn

Hybrid Tech/Magic Implement, Level 2

  • Item Profile:
    • Item Level: 2
    • Price: 700 credits
    • Bulk: L (empty), 1 Bulk (full)
    • Capacity: 20 charges (Usage: 1 to 4 charges per activation)
    • Hands: 1 (held to drink/pour; slung across torso when carried)
    • Description: A 14-inch polished bio-organic horn reinforced with bronze alloy rings stamped with grapevine and chalice motifs. The tip terminates in a cast-bronze ram’s head terminal holding an illuminated carnelian focal bead, slung on braided red-and-gold fiber cords. Coated with resin-wax composite, it constantly vents an aroma of mulled wine, toasted wood, and fresh mint.
  • Passive Abilities:
    • Molecular Condensation Draught: Once emptied, the horn uses ambient micro-atmospheric recycling to generate 1.5 pints of nutrient-rich, spiced table wine over 1 hour.
    • Bio-Decontamination Matrix: Nonmagical poisons, polluted runoff, and bacterial contaminants poured into the horn are rendered harmless after 3 rounds. The carnelian node flashes crimson if supernatural toxins or tailored chemical agents are detected.
    • Jovial Fortitude: The wielder does not suffer the sickened or impaired condition from alcohol consumed through the horn, retaining full dexterity and mental focus.
  • Active Systems:
    • Tamada’s Resonant Toast:
      • Activation: Standard Action
      • Battery Cost: 2 charges
      • Mechanics: Proclaiming a hearty toast and drinking, the wielder and up to four allies within 15 feet gain a +1 morale bonus to attack rolls and saving throws against emotion and fear effects for 10 minutes, plus 1d4 + 1 temporary Hit Points (lasting 1 hour).
    • Devi-Scattering Fume:
      • Activation: Standard Action
      • Battery Cost: 2 charges
      • Mechanics: The wielder expels a 15-foot cone of combustible alcohol mist. Hostile creatures in the cone must succeed on a DC 13 Fortitude save or be dazzled and coughing for 1 round. If ignited by energy weapons, sparks, or lasers, the mist detonates, dealing 2d4 fire damage to all creatures in the area (Reflex DC 13 half).
    • Libation to the Thirsty Earth:
      • Activation: Standard Action
      • Battery Cost: 4 charges
      • Mechanics: Pouring a ring of liquid onto the deck or terrain forms a 10-foot-radius threshold ward for 10 minutes. Burrowing creatures and earth-aligned bio-constructs must succeed on a DC 13 Will save to breach or dig beneath the ring. Allies within gain a +2 circumstance bonus to KAC against bull rush, trip, and reposition combat maneuvers.

Traveller

Highland Field Libation Horn

TL 10 Exotic Cultural Artifact

  • Item Profile:
    • Tech Level: TL 10 (Frontier / Folk Artifice)
    • Mass: 0.5 kg (empty), 1.0 kg (full)
    • Liquid Volume: 0.7 Liters
    • Form: A natural composite horn featuring micro-etched bronze collar bands and a cast terminal ram’s head mounting an illuminated carnelian resonance sensor. Secured via treated leather strapping and flame-retardant wool harness cords.
    • Sensor Profile: Passive olfactory venting of ethyl alcohol compounds, heated resin, and mint extracts.
  • Passive Traits:
    • Atmospheric Hydration Cycle: When drained during a rest period, integrated micro-condensation channels distill 0.7 liters of pure, electrolyte-fortified spiced wine over 1 hour.
    • Filtration Lining: Internal biosensors and resin scrubbers break down common biological pathogens, turbidity, and chemical toxins within 3 combat rounds. The carnelian shifts to deep scarlet if advanced neurotoxins or synthesized poisons are detected.
    • Neuro-Balance Stabilization: The user is protected against the motor-impairment and consciousness-damping effects of alcohol, suffering no DM penalties on physical or intellectual checks from inebriation.
  • Active Features:
    • Toast of Fellowship:
      • Time: Significant Action
      • Mechanics: The user leads an inspiring toast. The bearer and up to four companions within 5 meters receive DM+1 on all Leadership, Persuade, and morale-related checks for 10 minutes, and temporary END +1 (lasting 1 hour).
    • Aerosolized Vapor Discharge:
      • Time: Significant Action
      • Mechanics: The user expels a pressurized 5-meter cone of volatile alcohol mist. Living targets must pass an END check (8+) or suffer DM–1 on all actions for 1 combat round due to eye irritation. If an open flame, laser, or spark enters the zone, the mist ignites, dealing 2D damage to everyone in the cone (DEX 8+ halves).
    • Grounding Threshold Ward:
      • Time: Significant Action
      • Duration: 10 minutes
      • Mechanics: Pouring wine in a 3-meter ring on natural soil or bedrock establishes a seismic/chthonic dampening field. Burrowing predators cannot penetrate the perimeter without succeeding on an END check (8+), and allies inside gain DM+2 to resist being knocked down or forcibly moved by shockwaves or kinetic impacts.

Warhammer

The Mountain Horn of Continuous Libation

Talisman / Enchanted Drinking Vessel (Highland Witchcraft)

  • Item Profile:
    • Item Type: Tool / Folk Relic (Carried or Worn via Baldric)
    • Availability: Rare
    • Encumbrance: 1
    • Liquid Capacity: 1.5 Pints
    • Description: A fourteen-inch curved horn of a mountain goat (tur), fitted with a chased bronze rim showing grape leaves and piala bowls, ending in a bronze ram’s head setting that houses an ember-glowing carnelian stone. Slung on red and saffron wool cords, the vessel smells perpetually of spiced mulled wine, toasted oak, and crushed mountain mint.
  • Passive Traits:
    • Endless Draught of the Toastmaster: Once completely drained during a communal toast, rest, or camp scene, the horn condenses 1.5 pints of nourishing, spiced mountain wine over the course of 1 hour.
    • Taint-Cleansing Resin: Nonmagical poisons, spoiled liquids, and tainted water are rendered completely pure and drinkable after 3 rounds in the horn. The carnelian flashes bright red if warp-tainted, magical, or alchemical venom touches the vessel.
    • Jovial Fortitude: The drinker is immune to the negative physical effects of mundane alcohol, ignoring the Drunk Condition, slurred speech, and coordination loss while retaining full Agility and Weapon Skill.
  • Active Abilities:
    • Tamada’s Resonant Toast:
      • Action: Full Action
      • Test: Simple (+40%) Fellowship or Leadership Test
      • Mechanics: The wielder shouts a roaring toast to fellowship and drinks. The wielder and up to four allies within 6 yards gain +10% to Willpower Tests against Fear, Terror, and Intimidation for 10 minutes, along with +2 temporary Wounds (lasting for 1 hour).
    • Devi-Scattering Fume:
      • Action: Half Action
      • Test: Challenging (+0%) Toughness Test
      • Mechanics: The wielder consumes strong spirits and exhales a 6-yard cone of stinging vapor. Enemies caught within must pass a Toughness Test or suffer the Blinded Condition for 1 round. If exposed to a torch, campfire, or black-powder spark, the cloud erupts into fire, dealing 1d10 Fire damage (Agility Test for half).
    • Libation to the Thirsty Earth:
      • Action: Full Action
      • Test: Difficult (–10%) Willpower Test
      • Mechanics: Pouring a full horn of wine onto the soil creates a consecrated 4-yard-radius ward for 10 minutes. Subterranean burrowers, mud daemons, and chthonic entities cannot cross into the circle without passing an Opposed Willpower Test against the wielder. Allies standing inside the circle gain a +20% bonus to resist being knocked Prone, shoved, or displaced by magical tremors.