Item Seed: Emblem of the Burning Foal.

Emblem of the Burning Foal

Description: Mundanely, a golden 7th century BC Scythian shield emblem.  The esoteric version gives heightened endurance, strength, and reflexes to the wearer, but only if she is female and has performed various rituals in veneration of the Scythian goddess Tabiti.  The esoteric version is also hot to the touch, but not painfully so.

The Emblem of the Burning Foal straddles ‘regular’ magic and theurgy; apparently, the only ones who could make these items were mages who were also metalworkers and Enaree, or priests of the Scythian religion (these kinds of elaborate enchantment requirements happen a lot with magical items with more power than average, particularly in the historical period).  There are maybe forty, forty-five esoterically active Emblems of the Burning Foal out there, and thirty-two of them are in possession of underground magical groups who are willing to perform the necessary rituals to Tabiti (which, to be fair, are straightforward and non-pernicious).  The remainder are either in museums, or being carefully studied by occult researchers, or simply possessed by mundane owners unaware of what they have.

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