Leech Coral (ST: 25):

“It was no oil lamp, but one with a frame of coral, in a shape very similar to the oil lamps Jasper knew. But instead of a glass body with a lit wick it held a large egg, whose outside was a membrane instead of a shell.”

A Leech Coral slowly turns the life of things very close to it into orange light while it feeds of it, but may only do so with very small beings. Usually, eggs are placed in a lamp made of harvested and shaped Leech Coral. Its light will last for 6 to 24 hours, depending on the size and quality of the egg placed in it. 6 is the common duration, but the life force of an exotic or big egg may achieve better results. The nutrition value (in sp, as per the rules for Veins of the Earth) of the egg may be calculated by multiplying the remaining hours of light by 5.

Dvargir Crank-Lamps (ST: variable)

A metal box the size of paperback, with a hand crank at the side and a cylindrical light bulb at the top. The bulb is protected by a wire mesh guard, leather fasteners may be used to strap the lamp to left arm or to secure it to a belt.

A Dvargir Crank Lamp shines with a white light for 1 minute for every round that it has been “cranked up”. The Strength of the light is equal to the Strength of the person that cranked it. It cannot be cranked up for more than 2 turns (no benefit from over-doing it, cranking it for 40 rounds at a time will burn out the wires and break the device). The crank lamp is delicate and has a X in 12 chance of breaking when dropped, where X is the height of the drop in feet. After each fight, there is a 1 in 10 chance that wires inside of the lamp became lose. It may then be repaired by somebody with a Tinker skill of at least 4, on a successful skill check.

Dvargir only employ them in areas they consider “safe”, and are reluctant to trade them.

Soullight Tattoo [ST: Variable]

A magical tattoo that is inked into the left palm of a character. The secret of its creation is only known to a few within the Veins of the Earth: some of the Deep Janeen know it, but usually do not bother to reveal this knowledge, as they see it as a rather boring curiosity. A few Aelf-Adal do know it, but consider it to be to beneficially to offer it to those who are capable of dreaming. Some Gnomen do know, but they will have to pitty you a lot AND consider you an absolutely hopeless case to put such a thing into your hand. Actually, the Substratals are the most likely to grant a Soullight Tattoo.

The maker has to spend a week with you, both talking and meditating with you, so that he or she may learn enough about your soul to know what the tattoo must be like to ignite it. Once created, the bearer may ignite the inner self by blowing onto the open, up-turned palm that carries the tattoo. When it is lit, the characters heart will beat stronger, the own mind will become clearer (+1 to Intelligence) while a white light with a colorful hue licks out of the palm (the hue will be of the color the character enjoys the most. Black is no color, nor is white). The light of this astral flame will not burn nor hurt, and shines with a Strength equal to the character´s WIS. Upon activating and every turn thereafter, the character suffers one point of attribute damage to WIS. The damage will be recovered at a rate of one point per (30 minus current Wisdom) hours. If more than half of the Wisdom is burned up this way, a Save vs. Devices needs to be passed or 1d4 points of the loss are permanent instead. The flame will die and the light will cease when the palm is turned face down or when the palm touches anything (even briefly).

Pages from the Book of Light (ST: 5)

Nobody knows the real name of the so called “Book of Light”. It was found in the crumbling and squashed ruins of a city that had been discovered deep within the Veins, and stumbling upon somebody who owns some of these pages means that the ruins may be nearby (or at least not all to far away). The paper is old, the writing on it is a language nobody seems to know anymore, even magic does not reveal it meanings. But the golden writing on the thin paper shines. Rumor has it that the book used to have about 300 pages, and at least half of them have been torn out and traded in the Veins, for their light is permanent. Magic-User may treat a page as spell scroll of Continual Light, but this will rob the page of its shine. Some say that the book itself, once opened, shines with a much brighter light than just the individual pages (ST: equal to the remaining pages), and that anybody reading the book would have the own eyes shine like daylight till the next time they go to sleep.