Descent into Avernus

APPENDIX C: MAGIC ITEMS

This appendix describes new magic items that appear in

the adventure and presents them in alphabetical order.

BATTLE STANDARD OF INFERNAL POWER

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)

This hell-forged battle standard is made of infernal iron

and fitted with a small, unopenable cage containing a

quasit. The trapped quasit is incapacitated, and its cage

has AC 19, 10 bit points, and immunity to all types of

damage except force damage. If killed or somehow re-

leased, the quasit disappears in a cloud of smoke, and a

new one appears in the cage, provided the cage is intact.

While you hold the banner, your weapon attacks and

those of all allied creatures within 300 feet of you count

as magical for the purposes of overcoming damage im-

munities and resistances.

GAUNTLETS OF FLAMING FURY

Wondro·us item, rare (requires attunement)

While you wear both of these steel gauntlets, any non-

magical weapon you grasp with either gauntlet is treated

as a magic weapon. As a bonus action, you can use the

gauntlets to cause magical flames to envelop one or two

melee weapons in your grasp. Each flaming weapon

deals an extra ld6 fire damage on a hit. The flames last

until you sheath or let go of either weapon. Once used,

this property can't be used again until the next dawn.

FANE-EATER

Weapon (battleaxe), legendary (requires attunement by

an evil cleric or paladin)

Fane-Eater is a battleaxe belonging to Arkhan the Cruel

(see page 111).

You gain a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls with

Fane-Eater. 1f you attack a creature with this weapon

and roll a 20 on the attack roll, the creature takes an

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hit points equal to the necrotic damage taken.

HELLFIRE WEAPON

Weapon (any), uncommon

This weapon is fashioned from infernal iron and

traced with veins of hellfue that shed dim light in a

5-foot-radius.

Any humanoid killed by an attack made with this

weapon has its soul funneled into the River Styx, where

it's reborn instantly as a lemure devil (described in the

Monster Manual).

HELM OF DEVIL COMMAND

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement by a

creature that can speak Infernal)

This bulky, eyeless helmet is made for a pit fiend but

magically resizes to fit the heads of other wearers.

While wearing the helm, you can see out of it as

though you weren't wearing it. In addition, you know

the exact location and type of all devils within 1,000

feet of you. You can telepathically communicate with a

devil within range, or you can broadcast your thoughts

to all devils within range. The devils receiving your

broadcasted thoughts have no special means of reply-

ing to them.

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