Ring of Nature's Love (Magic Ring)

This ring appears common: it is a simple pewter ring carved to resemble twining branches with a blossoming rose at its heart.
A long history ties this ring to the Age of Dreams. It passed to Lady Ellyth, who gave it to her son Arin for his bride. Sadly, fair Marissa, Arin's love, had also melted the cold heart of Kryl Shadestalker, a vampiric creature. Master Kryl stole Marissa's life-breath, making her one of his ilk. To seal the pact, he forced her to slay Arin. Although eternally damned, fair Marissa would never bow to Kryl's lust. Decades later, she threw herself on a witch hunter's stake both to spite Master Kryl and to end her torment. Kryl saved the ring, a token of his loss.
Then Master Kryl retired to a manor in the desolate Crumbled Spine of Abanasinia. He swore never to love again. One day his travels took him to the ramshackle port of Dering's Way. While gauging the cattle for his next repast, Kryl fell prey in a common thief, a small girl (Tika) who slipped the ring from his finger while feigning courtesy. Outraged Kryl sent his minions to locate the girl. They never returned. After a fortnight, a wizard named Waylan knocked at Kryl's door. Waylan said that his daughter had the vampire's ring and he proposed a game of chance to decide ownership. Intrigued, Kryl agreed. If he lost, he would leave the wizard and girl-child alone. If he won, he would claim both the ring and their lives.
How the game ended, none knows. Some say Waylan won and Kryl, loathe though he was, honored the bargain. Others say the con man cheated Kryl, and the furious vampire swore to exact revenge one day. The unliving can be patient: Whatever happened Waylan lived. The lord of deceit did eventually return to challenge the wizard, but Waylan had teleported Tika and the ring away to a new land.
Tika wears the ring on a chain about her neck as a memento of her father. She does not know of its power, but in times of stress she will slip on the ring asking for her father's guidance. This activates the ring. Where fate will lead her is unknown. A fortune-teller once said to her. “Nature's love will one day find its true heart and healing hands.”
This ring detects only as minor magic. It acts as a ring of protection +2, improving AC by -2 and adding a +2 bonus to all saves. It also protects against the elements, halving damage from fire, cold, lightning, air and water-making the wearer immune to up to 3 Hit Dice of non-magical damage from the natural elements.
Lastly, the ring makes the wearer immune to the ravages of time. It slows the aging process and quickens healing to double normal rates. Only catastrophe or violence will slay the wearer. Otherwise, the wearer is undying.
The ring is one of three artifacts that make up the Circle of Love. These artifacts were created in ancient days by the god Mishakal to end a war between two noble families. The spirit of the earth wizard, Heris Jerrold, inhabits the ring of nature's love. Heris's brother Trae and Trae's betrothed Mirri inhabit the other two artifacts in the Circle of Love. One day, destiny will reunite these artifacts, and the spirits within them. The ring of nature's love is opposed by the Circlet of Pride in the Triad of Betrayal, three artifacts created by the Evil God Hiddukel.
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