The Cittern of War

The Cittern of War was an enchanted musical instrument that, along with its copies, was the only musical instrument approved to be used by the Church of Tempus.
==Powers==
Those bards who stung the instrument could summon emotion, courage twice per day, which made the companions of the bard stronger, quicker, more valorous, and unable to lose their morale in combat. This magical inspiration lasted for an entire hour.
==History==
The Cittern of War was crafted by a halfling instrument maker Relias Blackseed before the and blessed by priests of Arvoreen the Defender. Relias' creation was not made to be used by the halfling himself, so the cittern was sold to the bard named Gallow Deely. He used the instrument to make music and songs capturing his adventuring companion's great deeds. One such group was the Company of Frozen Trees. Gallow used The Cittern of War to her them overcome a young green dragon in 1013 DR, the event immortalized in the rollicking tune called The Fight of Green Thirteen. Copies of such instruments were wielded in battle by both churches, of Tempus and Arvoreen. In the , The Cittern of War ended up in the treasure hoard of white wyrms who inhabited the ice caverns of the Wyrm's Tooth Glacier on the Spine of the World and led by Frostbite.
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Category:Bard-specific items
Category:Tempuran items
Category:Halfling items
Category:Arvoreenan items
Category:Citterns
Category:Plucked instruments
Category:Stringed instruments
Category:Instruments
Category:Magic items
Category:Items from Toril
Category:Items from Faerûn
Category:Items from Northwest Faerûn
Category:Items from the Frozenfar
Category:Items from the Spine of the World
Category:Items from Wyrm's Tooth
Category:Year of Manuscripts