Glacial Aegis Siphon of the Third Gaze 4172

Lore

This Tier 3 artifact was forged during the Great Convergence of the Shivering Coast, where the Ukiuk tribes and the exiled sages of the Southern Reaches met to discuss the rising threat of the Malevolent Mists.
By combining the unmelting glacial ice of a Tupilak, the protective silver of an XEye pendant, and the ethereal conduction of a Spirit Siphon, the artisans created a vessel capable of freezing the very essence of a soul.
Legend states that the first of these items was used to capture a minor frost primordial that was terrorizing a coastal trade hub, turning the beast’s own freezing rage into a source of perpetual warding.
The creation requires the silver filigree to be woven directly into the lattice of the unmelting ice while a sapphire teardrop is used to seal the spirit-containment vial, ensuring that only those with pure intent can harness the captured cold.

Description

The item appears as an intricate, handheld apparatus that can also be suspended from a heavy silver chain around the neck.
At its center sits a crystal vial containing a swirling, blue-white mist, encased in a cage of jagged, unmelting glacial ice shaped like a serpent biting its own tail.
Intricate silver filigree wraps around the ice, etched with protective eye-runes that pulse with a soft, azure light whenever a malicious presence is near.
A single, large sapphire teardrop is embedded at the base of the crystal vial, serving as the primary conduit for energy transfer.
The entire device is perpetually covered in a thin, shimmering layer of frost that never melts, even when exposed to direct flame, and it emits a low, resonant hum similar to the groaning of a moving glacier.

Stats

Tier: 3
Weight: 0.8 lbs
Durability: 45 Hit Points (The unmelting ice provides significant structural reinforcement against physical trauma).
Value: Estimated at 4,500 Gold Pieces in major trade hubs, though Ukiuk shamans may only trade it for rare artifacts of extreme thermal energy.

Skills Gained While Openly Worn

Cryo-Spiritual Extraction: The wearer can identify and extract residual spiritual energy from weakened entities or magical rifts with heightened precision.
Vicious Perception: Grants a +3 bonus to all Perception checks related to detecting curses, ill intent, or hidden spirits.
Glacial Endurance: The wearer is perfectly acclimated to all cold environments and gains a +2 bonus to any checks made to resist physical or magical fatigue.

Environmental Tactics of the Glacial Aegis-Siphon 4172

Arctic and Polar Wastelands

Defensive Roleplay: In the heart of a blizzard where the wind strips the warmth from the living, the wielder remains a pillar of unnatural stillness. The roleplay involves the avatar standing perfectly calm while the Heart of the Frozen Worthy passive absorbs the lethal environmental cold. If pursued by a Great Glacier predator, the wielder activates Flash-Freeze Siphon, reaching out to touch the very snow at the creature’s feet. The snow instantly crystallizes into a jagged anchor, restoring the wielder’s mana while providing a temporary AC boost as the surrounding air hardens into a protective rime.
Offensive Roleplay: The wielder initiates an attack by channeling the Glacial Ward Burst. The roleplay describes the ice-serpent on the device uncoiling its spiritual energy, releasing a 15-foot cone of razor-sharp blue shards. The wielder shouts a command in the Ukiuk tongue, and as the shards strike, they do not just cut; they bloom into restrictive ice cages that restrain the foe, leaving them vulnerable to a follow-up strike while the wielder moves with Snowstep Grace across the frozen battlefield.

Urban Centers and Crowded Marketplaces

Defensive Roleplay: Amidst the press of a suspicious crowd, the wielder relies on the Numbing Aura of Purity. The roleplay focuses on the subtle frost that begins to coat the cobblestones around the avatar’s feet, making the air thick and difficult to breathe for those harboring ill intent. If a hidden assassin attempts to cast a hex from the shadows, the Reflective Hoarfrost Gaze is triggered. The sapphire teardrop flashes a blinding azure light, reflecting the curse back at the source and instantly encasing the assassin’s casting hand in a thick, numbing layer of hoarfrost.
Offensive Roleplay: To bypass a guarded gate or a locked vault, the wielder uses Flash-Freeze Siphon on the mechanical components of the lock or the water in a guard’s flask. The roleplay depicts the wielder placing a chilled finger against the iron, the resonant hum of the glacier groaning as the internal mechanisms shatter from the sudden thermal shock. The resulting distraction and the restored energy allow the avatar to slip through the chaos undetected.

Tropical Jungles and Humid Swamps

Defensive Roleplay: In the sweltering heat of a cursed bog, the wielder is a walking anomaly of frost. The roleplay emphasizes the constant hiss of steam as the Heart of the Frozen Worthy passive battles the tropical humidity, creating a localized 10-foot sphere of refreshing, sub-zero air. When a venomous swamp-beast strikes, the wielder uses the Numbing Aura to sap the creature’s cold-blooded metabolism, slowing its movements to a crawl and making its strikes clumsy and easy to deflect.
Offensive Roleplay: Confronting a spirit-possessed vine or a swamp-wraith, the wielder utilizes the Cryo-Spiritual Extraction skill. The roleplay involves the avatar thrusting the device into the murky water, drawing the heat and the spirit-essence simultaneously into the crystal vial. The wielder then unleashes a Glacial Ward Burst, turning the swamp’s own water into a spray of freezing shrapnel that shreds the foliage and pins the wraith’s ethereal form to a nearby cypress tree with magical ice.

Deathly Cursed Ruins and Ancient Tombs

Defensive Roleplay: Within the AC-nullifying atmosphere of a tomb saturated with “Sky-Sickness” or necrotic rot, the Reflective Hoarfrost Gaze is the primary shield. The wielder roleplays the sapphire teardrop constantly pulsing with light as it intercepts invisible spiritual tethers attempting to drain the avatar’s life. The Heart of the Frozen Worthy provides the mental fortitude to endure the whispers of the dead, while the wielder uses the device to siphon the lingering sorrow of the ruins to keep their own mana reserves full.
Offensive Roleplay: To clear a path through a horde of skeletal guardians, the wielder activates the Glacial Ward Burst with a focused intent. The roleplay describes the 15-foot cone of ice not just damaging the undead, but “stamping” the glacier’s will of stillness upon them. The shards pierce the ancient bone and freeze the marrow, turning a dozen charging skeletons into a forest of static, frozen statues. The wielder then walks through the silent gallery, their footsteps echoing with the low, resonant groan of the ice-serpent.

Diplomatic Galas and High-Tier Social Functions

Defensive Roleplay: In a ballroom filled with envious nobles, the wielder uses the Vicious Perception skill to “read” the room through the pulsing eye-runes. The roleplay involves the avatar noticing the sapphire teardrop darkening when a rival approaches with a concealed curse or a deceptive offer. The Aura of Purity makes it physically uncomfortable for liars to stand close to the wielder, as the unnatural cold causes their teeth to chatter and their resolve to waver under the artifact’s judgmental hum.
Offensive Roleplay: If a social rival attempts to humiliate the avatar through magical manipulation, the wielder uses the Reflective Hoarfrost Gaze as a social weapon. The roleplay depicts the wielder catching the rival’s eye just as the spell is cast; the sapphire flashes, and the rival suddenly finds their own tongue frozen mid-sentence, their face turning a pale, frost-bitten blue in front of the gathered guests, effectively ending their political influence through a public display of the wielder’s superior protection.

Perception of Activation:

User’s Perspective

Sight: When the active magics of the artifact are triggered, the crystal vial at the center of the unmelting ice coil flares with a blinding, turbulent luminosity. The blue-white mist trapped inside spins into a violent miniature vortex, drawing in the ambient light of the room. The silver filigree wrapping the ice comes alive, with the etched eye-runes blinking open to emit piercing beams of azure light. The sapphire teardrop at the base glows with a concentrated, star-like brilliance that temporarily paints the wielder’s immediate vision in shades of crisp, glacial blue.
Sound: The activation is heralded by a profound, deep groaning noise, identical to the sound of shifting tectonic ice deep within a polar glacier. This immense, bass-heavy rumble is perfectly harmonized with a delicate, high-pitched chime that rings out like a tiny silver bell caught in a winter gale. The rushing sound of the spiritual essence being violently vacuumed into the vial sounds like a sudden, sharp intake of breath.
Touch: The wielder feels a profound, absolute cold radiating from the heavy silver chain and the ice-serpent, seeping directly into the chest and hands. This cold, however, does not cause frostbite to the wearer; instead, it acts as a numbing, protective sheath. Simultaneously, a contrasting surge of warm, positive tingling energy blooms from the sapphire teardrop, running up the wielder’s neck and shoulders, creating a bizarre but exhilarating sensation of being both frozen and perfectly insulated.
Smell: The immediate atmosphere is overwritten by the sharp, stinging scent of pure ozone and flash-frozen pine. Beneath this aggressive winter scent lies the incredibly faint, sweet, and ancient fragrance of dried lavender and old parchment, lingering in the sinuses long after the magic has resolved.
Taste: A distinct, metallic tang coats the wielder’s tongue, reminiscent of tasting the charged air moments before a massive lightning strike. This is quickly washed away by the phantom taste of pristine, ice-cold spring water, leaving the mouth feeling entirely refreshed and cleansed.
Extra-Sensory Perception (Glacial-Spiritual Tether): The wielder’s mind is temporarily flooded with the ancient, unfeeling consciousness of the Great Glacier. A sudden, overwhelming desire for absolute stasis and perfect quiet washes over the avatar’s thoughts. The wielder can physically feel the target’s residual spiritual energy or malicious curse being ripped from the ethereal plane and slammed into a state of absolute zero inside the vial.
Extra-Sensory Perception (Aura of Judgment): The wielder experiences a momentary thermal and moral inversion of their sight. The environment shifts into a landscape of auras, where creatures harboring ill intent or preparing curses stand out as sickly, dark, radiating heat signatures. The wielder feels an intuitive, magnetic pull originating from the sapphire, directing their focus perfectly toward the source of the malice to reflect it.
Extra-Sensory Perception (Weightless Stasis): For the exact second the Flash-Freeze Siphon or Glacial Ward Burst is triggered, the wielder feels entirely detached from gravity and time. The physical laws of the surrounding 15 feet feel momentarily suspended, giving the wielder the sensation of standing at the center of a frozen eternity before normal time violently crashes back into motion.

Observer’s Perspective

Sight: Observers witness the wielder suddenly enveloped in a swirling, localized blizzard of sparkling frost. The unmelting ice-serpent flashes with a brilliant, internal blue light that casts long, stark shadows. When the Reflective Hoarfrost Gaze triggers, onlookers see a concentrated laser of pure sapphire light shoot from the pendant directly at the attacker, instantly coating the attacker’s limbs in jagged, expanding white frost.
Sound: The area is filled with a deafening, sharp cracking noise, like a massive frozen lake splitting under pressure. This is accompanied by a continuous, resonant hum that vibrates the teeth and bones of anyone standing within a 20-foot radius.
Touch: The ambient temperature of the room or environment plummets instantly. Observers can see their own breath turn to thick white fog. A heavy, dense wave of positive energy pushes outward, which feels like a refreshing, crisp autumn wind to allies, but manifests as a heavy, suffocating, and painful chill to those harboring malicious thoughts toward the wielder.
Smell: The natural smells of the environment are instantly flash-frozen out of the air. Observers smell only the biting, sterile scent of a high-altitude snowstorm and the faint, unsettling smell of ozone that accompanies high-tier magical discharges.
Taste: The air becomes so suddenly dry and freezing that observers will taste a sharp, biting cold at the back of their throats, forcing them to swallow against the sudden arid chill.
Extra-Sensory Perception (The Immovable Will): Magically sensitive observers will feel a sudden, terrifying drop in the local magical background radiation. They perceive the wielder not merely as a person holding a tool, but as the focal point of an unstoppable, ancient natural disaster. The spiritual pressure of the room becomes overwhelmingly heavy, commanding absolute stillness.

Positives

The multi-sensory feedback provides the wielder with an absolute, undeniable confirmation that the hostile magic has been successfully intercepted, reflected, or siphoned.
The overwhelming visual and auditory spectacle serves as a massive intimidation factor, frequently breaking the morale of enemy combatants before the icy shards even make physical contact.
The extra-sensory auras grant the wielder perfect, momentary tactical clarity, immediately exposing hidden assassins, invisible spirits, and the true intentions of supposed allies.
The sensation of weightless stasis allows the wielder to execute complex physical reactions and counter-attacks with a preternatural sense of calm and precision.

Negatives

The extreme contrast between the absolute cold of the glacial ice and the warm, positive energy of the sapphire can cause momentary physiological shock and severe goosebumps, requiring extreme physical discipline to ignore.
The deafening sound of cracking ice and the blinding flashes of azure light make it physically impossible to use the active magics of the artifact while maintaining any form of stealth or cover.
The mental intrusion of the Great Glacier’s ancient consciousness is profoundly alien; prolonged or repeated activations in a short period can leave the wielder feeling emotionally detached, apathetic, and dangerously disconnected from their own humanity.
The sudden, violent drop in ambient temperature and the heavy spiritual pressure can inadvertently harm or discomfort non-hostile allies, mounts, or fragile environmental objects standing too close to the wielder during activation.

The Rite of the Triple Frost: Forging the Glacial Aegis-Siphon

Items Merged

Additional Materials Needed

Three ounces of powdered Celestial Arrowroot to act as a metaphysical binding agent between the unmelting glacial ice and the delicate silver components.
One vial of lunar-charged spring water, gathered exclusively during the apex of a new moon, to temper the spiritual essence and purify the binding magic.
A spool of etheric thread woven directly from the ambient energy of a willing frost-spirit, necessary to stitch the silver filigree into the crystalline lattice of the ice without causing structural fractures.
Pure elemental water, kept in a state of perpetual supercooling, to ensure the ethereal mist within the central vial remains fluid yet capable of reaching absolute zero upon activation.
A measure of enchanted silver dust to reinforce the protective eye-runes during the final sealing process.

Tools Required

An Advanced Cryo-Forge, a specialized arcane workstation capable of maintaining extreme sub-zero temperatures while simultaneously providing the alchemical pressure required to meld solid magic.
An Enchanted Jeweler’s Kit outfitted with silver-tipped, frost-resistant chisels and mallets, designed specifically to carve unmelting ice without shattering its primordial core.
A heavy-duty Alchemical Essence Containment Chamber, required to temporarily and safely hold the volatile spiritual mist extracted from the Spirit Siphon during the physical reconstruction.
A mortar and pestle carved from petrified Stonebark, utilized to perfectly grind the Celestial Arrowroot and enchanted silver dust into a seamless, magical amalgam.
A pair of insulated ethereal tongs, allowing the artisan to physically manipulate the raw spirit-energy and the freezing Tupilak without suffering severe frostbite or spiritual degradation.

Skill Requirements

Advanced Cryomancy is absolutely mandatory to physically manipulate, stretch, and reshape the unmelting glacial ice of the Tupilak without losing its inherent connection to the Great Glacier.
Mastery of Jewelry Crafting and Silver Engraving is required to meticulously dismantle the XEye pendant and seamlessly weave its delicate silver and sapphire into the newly formed ice cage.
Advanced Arcane Knowledge and Spirit Channeling are necessary to safely extract, hold, and re-infuse the delicate ethereal mechanics of the Spirit Siphon into the new, highly pressurized housing.
The artisan must possess a pure heart and unwavering, positive intentions, as the protective magic of the sapphire and the eye-runes will aggressively reject and shatter the components if handled with malice or greed.

Crafting Steps

The artisan must begin by preparing the Advanced Cryo-Forge, lowering the ambient temperature of the workshop to a state of near absolute zero, ensuring that the unmelting ice of the Tupilak will be in its most malleable, resonant state.
Carefully place the Spirit Siphon within the Alchemical Essence Containment Chamber. Using the ethereal tongs and a focused application of Spirit Channeling, the artisan must gently unbind the original silver filigree and extract the central crystal vial, transferring the swirling spiritual mist safely into the chamber’s holding reservoir.
The original crystal vial of the Spirit Siphon is then bathed in the supercooled elemental water, reinforcing its glass against the extreme thermal shock it is about to endure.
Take the Tupilak 291 of the Hoarfrost Grip and place it upon the frost-anvil. Utilizing Advanced Cryomancy and the frost-resistant chisels, the artisan must carefully carve and stretch the serpentine ring, elongating the unmelting ice into a larger, hollow coil designed to perfectly encase the reinforced crystal vial.
The stretching of the Tupilak must be done with extreme patience, ensuring that the jagged ice-shard head and the tail remain perfectly aligned to bite one another, forming an unbroken, infinite loop of glacial stasis.
Once the ice coil is shaped, the artisan turns to the XEye 8888 of the Worthy. The silver eye-pendant is meticulously dismantled using the Jeweler’s Kit, separating the pure silver from the sapphire teardrop.
The pure silver from the pendant is melted down alongside the original silver filigree of the Spirit Siphon. The artisan must then draw this newly alloyed silver into long, incredibly fine wires.
Using the etheric thread as a guiding track, the artisan must weave this new silver wire directly into the surface of the unmelting ice coil. The wire is laid in precise, repeating patterns of the protective eye-runes, creating a seamless metallic vine that wraps around the entire glacial serpent.
The powdered Celestial Arrowroot and enchanted silver dust are mixed with the lunar-charged spring water inside the Stonebark mortar, creating a glowing, silvery paste.
This paste is carefully applied to the base of the crystal vial. The artisan then presses the large sapphire teardrop from the XEye pendant directly into this paste, setting it firmly at the bottom of the vial where it will act as the primary conduit and reflective lens for the artifact’s magic.
The crystal vial, now adorned with the sapphire, is carefully slid into the center of the unmelting ice coil. The artisan must use the silver-tipped chisels to lock the jagged head and tail of the ice-serpent into place around the vial, securing it permanently.
The entire assembled apparatus is placed back into the Advanced Cryo-Forge. The artisan initiates the Lunar-Cryomantic Binding, a grueling hours-long process where the protective intent of the artisan is channeled through the frost, forcing the silver, ice, crystal, and sapphire to recognize each other as a single, unified entity.
Once the structural binding is complete, the artisan opens the Alchemical Essence Containment Chamber. With a final, massive exertion of Spirit Channeling, the swirling spiritual mist is drawn out of the chamber and forced back into the crystal vial through the sapphire teardrop.
The artifact achieves its Tier 3 awakening the moment the spirit-mist touches the supercooled interior. The blue-white mist spins violently into a vortex, the unmelting ice hardens to its maximum durability, the silver eye-runes flash with an azure brilliance, and the entire device emits the low, resonant groan of a shifting glacier, signifying the successful forging of the Glacial Aegis-Siphon of the Third Gaze 4172.

Glacial Aegis-Siphon of Third Gaze 4172

These are the word-shapes of the deep cold, moved from the dried skin of the sea-beast to the flat paper of the south. The words are heavy and many meanings are lost to the water-rats of time. In the turning of the great sky-wheel when the Shivering Edge was crying much frozen water, there came the great sickness of the Bad Breath of the Unseen. This Bad Breath was a cloud of many angry dead people who forgot their own face-names. They walked on the wind without feet and touched the heads of the living people, making the thoughts of the living turn into black mud and sad weeping. The people of the ice-lodges were doing much dying, for their spears made of fish-bone could not stab the wind, and their warming-fires were made dead by the breathing of the grey cloud.

It is said by the bone-readers that three walkers came to the top of the frozen tooth of the earth to speak about the dying. One was the Ice-Mother of the Ukiuk, whose blood was slow and who spoke to the sleeping mountains. She brought the snake of un-melting hard-water [meaning lost: perhaps magical glacial ice]. This was the beast that chews its own tail-end, holding the absolute sleep of the great frozen river. The second walker was the Wanderer of the Far Dirt. He carried the shiny metal eye that strongly hates the bad-looking of envious men. In the middle of this eye was the blue crying-stone [sapphire] that was very pure and angry at bad things. The third walker was the Whisper-Catcher. He held the hollow glass stomach that eats the ghost-winds and holds the unseen people.

The three walkers sat on the frozen tooth and spoke words that were very heavy and took many sun-turns to say. The Ice-Mother said, “My hard-water snake is strong and never weeps water, but it has no eyes to see the Bad Breath.” The Wanderer said, “My metal eye can see the Bad Breath and shout the bad-looking back at the ghosts, but it has no stomach to hold the many angry dead.” The Whisper-Catcher said, “My hollow glass stomach can eat the angry dead, but it will shatter into sand because the ghosts are too many and too violently cold.” They nodded their heads for three turnings of the moon. Then they spoke as one voice, saying, “We must smash the three things into one thing, so the one thing has the seeing, the holding, and the not-breaking.”

They built a fire that was not a fire, but a loud singing of the earth and the deep water. The Ice-Mother used the cold-magic to pull the hard-water snake, making it long and hollow without making it wet. The snake groaned like a dying whale under the ice, but it did not break its own tail. The Wanderer took his metal eye and hit it with his will until it became thin strings of shiny soft-rock [silver filigree]. He took the blue crying-stone and pushed it into the bottom of the hollow glass stomach. He then sewed the shiny strings into the skin of the hard-water snake, tying the metal to the ice. Then, they shoved the glass stomach into the open mouth of the hard-water snake, and the snake bit its own tail again to lock the glass stomach forever inside its frozen belly.

They poured the water of the dead moon over the new thing to make it wake up. The new thing made a noise like the breaking of the world’s bones. The shiny strings opened many small eyes all over the ice that burned with a piercing blue fire. The blue crying-stone at the bottom began to pulse like the heart of a frightened sky-bird. Inside the glass stomach, a white cloud began to spin very fast, making a sound like a trapped winter storm. It was now the Glacial Aegis-Siphon of the Third Gaze 4172. It was very heavy with magic and smelled aggressively of sharp air and old crushed flowers.

Then the Bad Breath of the Unseen came over the frozen tooth. It was a massive grey wall of screaming mouths that had no faces and hands made of fog. It reached out to make the minds of the three walkers into black mud. But the Ice-Mother held up the one thing on a heavy chain. The shiny metal eyes saw the bad-looking of the ghosts and flashed a blinding blue light that cut the sky. The ghosts screamed a different scream, for their bad-looking was thrown back into their own non-faces by the pure blue crying-stone. They were stuck in the air, very confused, their fog-hands becoming stiff with an unnatural frost.

Then the Whisper-Catcher pushed his mind into the blue crying-stone. The glass stomach opened its invisible mouth to the ethereal sky. The Bad Breath was pulled forcibly from the air. It was sucked down, down into the spinning white cloud inside the glass. As the ghosts passed through the hard-water snake, the snake made the angry dead absolutely cold, stopping their screaming forever. They became silent, frozen essence-stones tumbling inside the glass stomach. The grey wall in the sky was gone. The air became very clean and tasted like metal and pure spring water upon the tongues of the walkers.

The three walkers looked at the thing in their hands. It was humming loudly with the weight of a thousand frozen ghosts and the sleep of the glacier. It was too heavy for a normal man of the tribes to wear, for it would make his heart stop with the cold and the loudness of the trapped dead screaming silently in the glass. They wrapped the thing tightly in the thick skins of the woolly beasts and hid it deep in a hole made of ice that never, ever moves. They painted warnings in blood on the ice and said, “Let the eye sleep until the sky bleeds grey again and the ghosts with no feet come back to eat the warmth of the living.”

The Moral of the Story: When the cold snake bites its own tail to swallow the ghost-cup, and the blue crying-stone watches the sky, the bad wind of the dead will be forced to eat its own bad-looking and sleep forever in the glass belly, proving that three broken tools woven together can freeze the breath of the world.

Suggested conversions to other systems:

Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition)

The Glacial Aegis-Siphon of the Third Gaze 4172

Item Type: Unique Magical Artifact / Relic (Tier 3)
Description: A handheld or neck-worn apparatus consisting of a crystal vial encased in a serpentine coil of unmelting glacial ice. Silver filigree with eye-runes pulses with azure light.
Sanity Loss: 1/1d6 (upon witnessing its activation or feeling the glacier’s unfeeling consciousness).
Game Mechanics:
- Heart of the Frozen Worthy: The wearer is immune to mundane environmental cold and gains a +20% bonus to CON rolls to resist magical cold or fatigue.
- Vicious Perception: Grants a +15% bonus to Spot Hidden and Psychology tests when detecting ill intent, curses, or invisible spirits.
- Flash-Freeze Siphon (Active): Spend 5 Magic Points to touch a liquid or a weakened spirit. It is instantly frozen. Restore 1d6+2 Magic Points and gain a +10% bonus to Dodge for one hour.
- Reflective Hoarfrost Gaze (Active): As a reaction to a spell or gaze attack, spend 1d4 Sanity. The caster must succeed in an Opposed POW roll or suffer their own effect. On a failure, they are also affected by a “Hoarfrost Grip” (Move and DEX-based skills halved for 1d10 rounds).
- Glacial Ward Burst (Active): Spend 8 Magic Points. A 5-yard cone deals 2d6+4 cold damage. Targets must succeed on a Hard STR roll or be immobilized in ice for 1d4 rounds.

Blades in the Dark

The Glacial Aegis-Siphon 4172

Item Type: Fine Unique Arcane Implement (Tier 3 Quality)
Load: 1 (Worn as a heavy pendant)
Description: A crystalline vial trapped in a loop of “spirit-ice,” wrapped in etched silver. It groans with the weight of a moving glacier.
Passives:
- The Glacier’s Endurance: You are immune to the biting cold of the ghost field and mundane freezing temperatures. Gain +1d to resistance rolls against physical or magical fatigue.
- Aura of Purity: Hostile supernatural entities suffer -1d to any rolls made to target you directly with baleful magic.
Active Mechanics:
- Flash-Freeze Siphon: Once per score, spend 1 Stress to siphon a spiritual font or liquid. Clear 2 Stress and gain +1 Scale to your next defensive action.
- Reflective Gaze: Spend 2 Stress as a reaction to resist a supernatural consequence. The consequence is reflected back at the source. The source also suffers the “Frozen” complication (Limited Effect on their next action).
- Glacial Ward Burst: Spend 1 Stress to unleash a wave of ice. This counts as a Tier 3 “Potency” attack against a group (Small Gang). Targets hit are “Restrained” by ice.

Dungeons & Dragons (5th Edition)

Glacial Aegis-Siphon of the Third Gaze 4172

Wondrous Item, Rare (Requires Attunement)
Armor Class: While wearing this artifact, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.
Passives:
- Vicious Perception: You have a +3 bonus to Wisdom (Perception) checks made to detect curses, hidden spirits, or creatures with malicious intent.
- Endurance of the Wastes: You are immune to the effects of extreme cold. You have resistance to cold damage and advantage on saving throws against being exhausted.
Active Abilities:
- Flash-Freeze Siphon (3 Charges/Day): As an action, you touch a liquid or a spirit with 0 hit points. The target is absorbed. You regain 1d8+2 expended hit points or one expended 1st-level spell slot.
- Reflective Hoarfrost Gaze (1/Day): When you are targeted by a curse or a gaze attack (such as a Medusa’s Petrifying Gaze), you can use your reaction to reflect it. The attacker must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be affected by its own ability. On a failure, the attacker is also Restrained by ice until the end of its next turn.
- Glacial Ward Burst (1/Day): As an action, you release a 15-foot cone of frost. Each creature in the area must make a DC 16 Strength saving throw, taking 4d6 cold damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. On a failure, a creature is Restrained by ice until the end of its next turn.

Knave (2nd Edition)

Glacial Aegis-Siphon 4172

Item Slots: 1 (Worn around the neck)
Defense: +1 bonus to Defense.
Durability: 45/45
Description: A frozen serpent of ice biting its tail, holding a mist-filled vial.
Passives:
- Glacial Acclimation: You ignore all damage or penalties from cold environments.
- Eye of the Worthy: Gain a +3 bonus to any check to spot hidden magic, traps, or malicious intent.
Active Abilities:
- Flash-Freeze Siphon (3/Day): Touch a gallon of liquid or a dying spirit. It is absorbed. Restore 10 HP and gain a +1 Defense bonus for the next 10 minutes.
- Reflect Gaze (1/Day): As a reaction to a spell or curse, the source must make a DC 16 CON save or suffer the effect instead. If they fail, they are also frozen (cannot move or act) for 1 round.
- Glacial Burst (1/Day): Fire a 15ft cone of ice. Deals 4d6 damage. Targets must make a STR save or be unable to move on their next turn.

Fate Core / Fate Accelerated

The Glacial Aegis-Siphon 4172

Item Type: Tier 3 Arcane Artifact
Aspect: Serpentine Coil of the Unmelting Gaze
Description: A heavy, ice-encased pendant that hums with the resonant frequency of a shifting glacier.
Stunts:
- Heart of the Frozen Worthy: You gain a +2 bonus to Defend against any magical attacks or environmental hazards involving cold, ice, or spiritual energy.
- Vicious Perception: Once per scene, you may use Notice to detect the presence of malicious intent or hidden spiritual entities with a +2 bonus. On a success, you discover a hidden Aspect related to the target’s ill will with one free invoke.
- Flash-Freeze Siphon (Active): Once per session, you may clear your lowest-level physical stress box by touching a liquid or a weakened spiritual entity. This also creates the Aspect “Frost-Charged Shield” on yourself with two free invokes.
- Reflective Hoarfrost Gaze (Active): When you succeed with style on a Defend action against a curse or gaze attack, you may choose to forgo the boost to inflict the original effect back upon the attacker, plus the Aspect “Hoarfrost Grip” (Restrained) with one free invoke.

Numenera & Cypher System

Glacial Aegis-Siphon of the Third Gaze 4172

Level: 6 (Tier 3 Artifact)
Form: A handheld crystal vial trapped within a perpetual ice-lattice, hanging from a heavy silver chain.
Depletion: 1 in 1d20
Passive Abilities:
- Glacial Endurance: You are trained in all tasks related to enduring extreme cold or physical fatigue.
- Aura of Purity: Any hostile creature attempting to target you with an esotery or magical effect increases the difficulty of their task by one step.
Active Abilities:
- Flash-Freeze Siphon (Action): You absorb a small amount of liquid or a weakened spirit. This restores 5 points to your Might or Intellect pool and provides an Asset to your Defense tasks for one hour.
- Reflective Hoarfrost Gaze (Action/Reaction): When targeted by a gaze or curse, you make an Intellect defense roll. On a success, the effect is reflected at the source. The source also suffers the “Frozen” condition, hindering all tasks for one minute. (Depletion roll applies).
- Glacial Ward Burst (Action): You unleash a cone of ice (short range). All targets take 6 points of cold damage and are immobilized (difficulty of escape is Level 6). (Depletion roll applies).

Pathfinder (2nd Edition)

Glacial Aegis-Siphon of the Third Gaze 4172

Traits: Artifact, Rare, Abjuration, Cold, Magical, Spirit
Usage: Worn (Neck); Bulk: 1
Base Defense: While worn, you gain a +1 item bonus to AC and a +2 item bonus to saving throws against curses and cold effects.
Passives:
- Vicious Perception: You gain a +3 item bonus to Perception checks to notice hidden spirits or detect creatures with malicious intent.
- Endurance of the Wastes: You gain Resistance 10 to Cold. You are immune to the effects of extreme cold environments.
Activate [Two-Actions] (Flash-Freeze Siphon): (Healing, Manipulation) Frequency: Three times per day. You touch a liquid or a spirit at 0 HP. You regain 4d8+10 Hit Points and gain a +1 status bonus to AC for 10 minutes.
Activate [Reaction] (Reflective Hoarfrost Gaze): (Abjuration, Cold, Reflection) Frequency: Once per day. Trigger: You are targeted by a curse or a gaze attack. Effect: The effect is reflected. The attacker must attempt a DC 28 Fortitude save. On a failure, the attacker is affected by their own ability and becomes Immobilized by ice for 1 round.
Activate [Three-Actions] (Glacial Ward Burst): (Cold, Evocation) Frequency: Once per day. A 15-foot cone of ice deals 8d6 cold damage (Basic Reflex DC 28). On a failure, the target is Restrained by ice (Escape DC 28).

Savage Worlds (Adventure Edition)

The Glacial Aegis-Siphon 4172

Type: Relic (Tier 3)
Weight: 1 lb.
Passives:
- Heart of the Frozen Worthy: Grants the wearer +4 Armor against cold-based attacks and immunity to Environmental Cold hazards.
- Vicious Perception: The wearer gains a +2 bonus to Notice rolls to detect hidden spirits, curses, or characters with a “Malicious” or “Hostile” intent.
- Aura of Purity: Opponents subtract 2 from any Arcane Skill rolls made to target the wearer with harmful powers.
Unique Powers:
- Flash-Freeze Siphon (3/Day): As an action, the wearer siphons a liquid or spirit. This removes one level of Fatigue and provides a +1 bonus to Parry for the remainder of the encounter.
- Reflective Hoarfrost Gaze (1/Day): As a reaction to being targeted by a power or gaze, the wearer reflects the effect. The attacker must make a Vigor roll at -4 or suffer the effect of their own power and become Entangled by ice.
- Glacial Ward Burst (1/Day): The wearer places a Medium Burst Template adjacent to themselves. Targets take 3d6 cold damage and must make a Vigor roll at -2 or be Bound by ice.

Shadowrun (6th World)

The Glacial Aegis-Siphon 4172

Item Type: Unique Alchemical/Arcane Body Focus (Tier 3 Prototype)
Rating: 5
Availability: Unique
Cost: 320,000¥ (estimated black market value)
Description: A heavy pendant featuring a crystal vial encased in a coil of unmelting “Spirit-Ice.” Holographic eye-runes pulse with azure light when detecting hostile mana.
Game Mechanics:
- Aegis of the Muse (Passive): Provides +3 Armor (Physical) and +5 Armor (Cold). The wearer is immune to all environmental cold modifiers and extreme weather effects.
- Vicious Perception (Passive): Adds +3 dice to all Perception and Astral Perception tests when detecting curses, malicious intent, or spirits.
- Flash-Freeze Siphon (Complex Action, 3/Day): The focus siphons a liquid or weakened spirit. Restore (Rating) boxes of Stun or Physical damage and gain +1 Defense Rating for one hour.
- Reflective Hoarfrost Gaze (Reaction, 1/Day): When targeted by a combat spell or critter power, roll Magic + Force (5) vs. Caster’s Magic + Tradition. On success, the effect is reflected. The caster also suffers the Chilled status for 1 minute.
- Glacial Ward Burst (Complex Action, 1/Day): A 10m cone deals 8P (Cold) damage. Targets must succeed on a Strength + Body (4) test or suffer the Immobilized status until the end of the next combat round.

Starfinder (2nd Edition / Playtest)

Glacial Aegis-Siphon of the Third Gaze 4172

Item Type: Tier 3 Hybrid (Magic/Technological) Relic
Level: 12
Price: 38,000 Credits
Bulk: L; Slot: Neck
Passives:
- Heart of the Frozen Worthy: Resistance 10 to Cold. The wearer is immune to environmental effects of extreme cold.
- Vicious Perception: You gain a +3 item bonus to Perception checks to detect invisible spirits or creatures with the Malicious or Hostile intent trait.
- Aura of Purity: Hostile creatures take a -2 status penalty to attack rolls with spells or magical effects targeted at you.
Active Abilities:
- Flash-Freeze Siphon (Two Actions, 3/Day): You touch a liquid or a creature with the Spirit or Incorporeal trait at 0 HP. You regain 6d10 Hit Points and gain a +1 status bonus to AC for 1 hour.
- Reflective Hoarfrost Gaze (Reaction, 1/Day): Trigger: You are targeted by a curse or gaze attack. Effect: You attempt a Mysticism check to counteract the effect (DC = 10 + Effect Level). On success, the effect is reflected. The source must make a DC 30 Fortitude save or be Restrained by ice for 1 round.
- Glacial Ward Burst (Three Actions, 1/Day): A 15-foot cone deals 8d6 cold damage (Basic Reflex DC 30). On a failure, the target is Restrained by ice until the end of its next turn.

Traveller (Mongoose 2nd Edition)

The Cryo-Kinetic Aegis-Siphon 4172

Item Type: TL15+ Psychotropic/Cryo-Tech Relic (Archaeotech)
Mass: 0.5 kg
Price: Cr2,500,000
Skill Requirements: Science (Psychology) 1, Survival 1
Description: A chest-slung apparatus of unmelting crystal-ice. It regulates the user’s thermal signature while providing advanced psionic shielding.
Game Mechanics:
- Glacial Shielding (Passive): Provides 12 points of Protection against Cold. The wearer ignores all penalties for Extreme Cold environments (down to -150°C).
- Vicious Perception (Passive): Grants a DM+3 to all Recon and Investigate checks when detecting ambushes, traps, or hostile intent.
- Aura of Purity (Passive): Any hostile Psionic attack against the wearer suffers a DM-4 penalty.
- Flash-Freeze Siphon (3/Day): The user siphons energy from 5 liters of liquid. Restore 2D points to any one physical Characteristic (END, STR, or DEX) for 1 hour.
- Reflective Gaze (1/Day): As a reaction to a Psionic or magical attack, the user reflects the effect. The attacker must make an END check (12+) or suffer 3D damage and be immobilized for 1D6 rounds.
- Glacial Burst (1/Day): Deploys a 5-meter cone. Targets take 4D damage and must make a DEX check (10+) or be immobilized for 1 round.

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (4th Edition)

The Glacial Aegis-Siphon of the Third Gaze 4172

Item Type: Legendary Magical Artifact (Tier 3)
Encumbrance: 1; Availability: Unique
Description: A crystalline vial encased in a serpentine coil of “Kiski-Ice” that never melts. It emits the constant, low groan of the Great Glacier.
Traits: Magical, Sentient, Protective, Cold.
Game Mechanics:
- Heart of the Frozen Worthy (Passive): Provides 2 Armour Points to all locations. The bearer is immune to all non-magical cold effects and gains a +20 bonus to all tests made to resist magical cold or fatigue.
- Vicious Perception (Passive): The bearer gains a +20 bonus to all Perception and Intuition tests to detect curses, ill intent, or the presence of ghosts and spirits.
- Flash-Freeze Siphon (3/Day): As an Action, the bearer siphons a gallon of liquid or a spirit. Restore (WPB) Wounds and gain +10 to all Weapon Skill and Ballistic Skill tests for 1 hour.
- Reflective Hoarfrost Gaze (1/Day): As a Reaction to a spell or gaze attack, make a Challenging (+0) Willpower Test. On success, the spell is reflected. The caster also receives 1 Entangled Condition as frost locks their joints.
- Glacial Ward Burst (1/Day): As an Action, unleash a 5-yard cone. Targets take (WPB + 8) damage (Cold). Targets must make a Challenging (+0) Strength Test or gain the Stunned and Entangled conditions from the ice.