Wonderous Item, Artifact

(requires attunment from a creature who has slain a nothic and consumed its eye)

The Nothic's Eye is an artifact, a magic gem created from the first Nothic by Vecna.

Personality. The Eye's purpose it to corrupt souls for Vecna. It is patient, and always scheming. It helps its wielder only to further the goal of corruption. If it is unable to corrupt, it attempts to take over, with the use of a spell that the wielder cannot cast through it: Power word Kill. It then reanimates the body of the former wielder, making a Lich(if they could cast 9th level spells), or a Ghast(If they could not).

Sentience. The Nothic's Eye is a sentient neutral evil Item with an Intelligence of 16, a Wisdom of 19, and a Charisma of 14. It has hearing and darkvision out to a range of 120ft. The Item communicate telepathically with its wielder and can speak, read, and understand Common and Undercommon.

Curse. When you attune to the Nothic's Eye, you gain a form of indefinite madness after 1d4 days.

Destroying the Eye. The Nothic's Eye can only be destroyed by resurrecting the original Nothic, restoring the Eye to him, and then killing him before Vecna notices. A very difficult task. This requires at least 4 castings of Wish, three of which count as replicating a spell of 8th level or lower. 1 casting to subdue the Eye, 1 casting to resurrect the Nothic, 1 casting to restore his eye, and 1 casting to kill him.

The Nothic's Eye has to following features:

• The Nothic's Eye has the following random properties:

  • 1 minor Beneficial property
  • 1 major Beneficial property
  • 1 minor Detrimental property

• The Eye has ten charges. It regains 1d4+2 charges daily at dawn. You can use an action and expend 1 or more charges to cast one of the following spells from it (Spell Save DC 18):
  • clairvoyance 2 charges)
  • scrying (3 charges)
  • speak with dead (1 charge)
  • legend lore (5 charges).