Velvet Crown (Magic Crown)

These rare, highly-prized items appear as cloth circlets or garters of worn, dark velvet. When worn about wrists, ankles, or thighs, or simply carried upon one's person, they do not function magically, and barely exhibit any dweomer (even under detect magic).
When worn about the head of an intelligent being, however, a velvet crown has the following properties: feather fall automatically; silence 15' radius upon mental command, lasting up to one hour at a time and usable once every three hours; darkness 15' radius, lasting up to 6 rounds at a time and usable once every hour; and freedom, usable once per day.
This last power enables the wearer to escape from locks, bonds, manacles, and hold, charm, slow, and web spells. The wearer can also open held, locked, and wizard locked portals (but not spiked or barred ones) and pass through all in silence. Velvet, crowns are usable by all classes, allegedly devised by the wizard Thingarlus, the Master of the Thieves' Guild of Airspur some 400 years ago. Elminster the Sage is known to have used one recently-it is still in his possession. 
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