Pigments of Longevity (Magic Art)

This powerful but perilous magical item extends the life-span of the person whose features are portrayed on its canvas. The canvas must be subjected to enchant an item, polymorph object, trap the soul, and wish spells and a diamond of at least 50,000 gp value is crushed and sprinkled on its surface. The portrait must be painted by a living, master painter, using pigments of longevity. As the last brush stroke is applied, the portrait must be dried using another wish. Then 1d100 is rolled against the following table.
Roll 	Effect
01-20	Subject's body shrivels, and his or her essence is trapped for eternity in the portrait.
21-35	No effect; subject ages normally. Portrait may not be retouched.
36-60	Subject's life-span is doubled
61-80	Subject's life-span is tripled
81-95	Subject's life-span is quadrupled
96-99	Subject's life-span is quintupled
00 	Subject's aging capacity ceases. Immortality is achieved!
Only one portrait of longevity may be made of a person during his or her lifetime, but a portrait may be periodically retouched with pigments of longevity. Each time a portrait is retouched, the table above must be consulted to determine the potency of the restoration. Thus, a subject may be trapped forever or gain immortality the second time around, and must decide if the gamble is worthwhile. Even wish spells cannot alter a roll on this table.
The formula for a portrait of longevity is inherently evil. There is a 1% cumulative chance per decade that an alignment shift toward chaotic evil (lawful to neutral to chaotic; good to neutral to evil; one axis at a time) affects the figure depicted by a portrait of longevity. If the portrait is destroyed the following table should be consulted:
Roll 	Effect
01-20	Subject turns to dust, forever dead.
21-65	Subject reverts to true age. If that age is greater than venerable, the subject dies.
66-99	The subject ages normally from the current, apparent age.
00 	Subject's aging capacity is destroyed with the portrait-Immortality is achieved!
Portraits of longevity are extremely rare. The only known location of the formula for creating them is the Astral Tome of Ildranadum, an artifact last known to exist in the astral stronghold of the Archmage Azurax.
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