“You hold in your hands a cut ruby as large as your clenched fist. The light shines on its surface, reflecting your face like a beautiful yet fractured mirror. Beams refract through its structure, causing it to seem to glow in your grasp, and it possesses an unexpected weight. Even in a gem of this size, the heft of the ruby is unbelievable.”

The Eye of Fate is an impressive find with a suitably impressive history. First mentioned some thousand years ago, the eye was discovered by a now nameless sorcerer. He claimed it as his source of power, and used it to establish one of the first empires in the region. His most impressive feat was to slay a dragon that threatened his rule. The magician’s personal refuge was destroyed by siege engines immediately after his death, and his name erased from history in a bold move by Arcus IV, the noble who next assumed power.

This statuesque giant has tan skin. Its hair is braided into a ponytail, and jewelry made of bone adorns it.

Ossein giants are sometimes referred to as bone giants. By using their mental abilities, these giants can manipulate their own body structure. When threatened, they use the ossify skin ability, but they find it much too cumbersome to use outside of combat.

Ossein giants stand 24 feet tall and weigh approximately 12,000 pounds. They have brown hair and most have tan colored skin, but dark brown skin is not uncommon. Some wear jewelry made from the bones of their prey, and most prefer to braid their hair behind them into intricate patterns, winding creatures carved from bone among their braids. These giants can live to be 700 years old.

Kobold Quarterly #19 (which is still available if you want a copy!) presented an all new racial theme, which allowed PCs to take on the role of a legendary werewolf. The theme gives you a range of optional powers to choose from throughout the heroic tier. For those who want to focus more on a character’s lycanthropic ways, Brian provides these feats to you so that you can have options that help your characters benefit from their cursed blood through all levels of play.

Blood Scent
The trail of blood leads into the marketplace. Tracks are of no value here, but scent will sort out this lot.

Heroic Tier
Prerequisite: Werewolf theme
Benefit: You gain a +2 racial bonus to Perception checks used to track and to Insight checks used to detect enemies hidden by disguise, illusion, or stealth. If the creatures is bloodied, this bonus increases to +5.

When Zubana made to leave the city of Lamakan, pursued by the sultan’s assassins, she thought back to the words spoken to her by the Witch of Nibraq. Because Zubana had lied to her, the witch replied with an evil truth: “The gods decree that Zubana shall lie dismembered on a street in Lamakan.” Zubana was not one to submit meekly to fate. All the same, as she traversed the city when first entering it, she gave a silver coin to every beggar and every idol she passed.

Zubana did not stop now for anything, knowing the sultan’s men were behind her. Just as she was feeling confident with her escape, Zubana tripped on something and fell to the dusty ground. She pushed herself up and saw a fakir looking at her through glaucomatous eyes. She had tripped over his begging bowl.

Forgetting the assassins for the moment, Zubana picked up the bowl and searched the dust for its spilled contents. She found only a single coin. Minted in distant Ilun, Zubana knew that only she could have given it to the fakir, and that only she had given to the fakir that day.

The Liber Libri Delapsus Angelus, or Codex of Fallen Angels, is a book that was created to document the true names of all angels who were banished from Heaven during the Great Revolt. According to lore about this tome, fueled by rage and blood lust, the angels’ rebellion brought Heaven to the brink of a massive devil invasion. The rebellion failed, and all of the angels who partook or supported the rebellion were brought before the gods and judged. The leader of the rebellion was judged first. He was chained to the top of a thin, crumbling pillar anchored in the layered depths of Hell. After angering the higher powers with hateful statements about the gods being nothing but self-centered slavers, he was sentenced to be forever bound to the codex, which bore the names of those fallen angels that almost drove the upper planes to ruin those many eons ago. He was charged with ensuring the book would remain unharmed for all of eternity. Although many of the angels named in the codex have met with violent or gruesome ends in their new home, lore about the book states that many forcefully carved their own niche in Hell and became the progenitors of a species of devil known today as erinyes.

Read more about this major artifact for the Pathfinder system.