Tome of Understanding

Very Rare

**Wondrous item, very rare** *These parchments contain alien formula that would augment even the greatest minds. As each page is read, it dissolves into raw elemental essence. You must expend 6 downtime days to read the tome of understanding, after which the tome is destroyed and you increase your Wisdom score by 2. In addition, you automatically and immediately detect creatures affected by the Chaos Phage (or other slaadi poisoning) within 60ft. of your person. As an action, you can remove these afflictions by touching the creature.* This book contains intuition and insight exercises, and its words are charged with magic. If you spend 48 hours over a period of 6 days or fewer studying the book's contents and practicing its guidelines, your Wisdom score increases by 2, as does your maximum for that score. The manual then loses its magic, but regains it in a century.

Staff of Striking

Very Rare

**Staff, very rare (requires attunement)** This staff is made of a single piece of unmelting, dark-green ice. While its exact form can’t be discerned, a dark shape running the length of the staff writhes within. This staff can be wielded as a magic quarterstaff that grants a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. The staff has 10 charges. When you hit with a melee attack using it, you can expend up to 3 of its charges. For each charge you expend, the target takes an extra 1d6 force damage. The staff regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1 the staff becomes a nonmagical quarterstaff.