Spell fetish

Spell fetishes were the spellcasting implements used by the arcane and some divine spellcasters of the Malatran Plateau in Kara-Tur. In lieu of spellbooks and material components that did not exist on the Plateau, wizards used various effigies, totems, and trinkets to store the knowledge of the magic in. This unique phenomenon that made Malatran magic different from anywhere else on Toril was due to an ancient and mysterious Pact of the Ancients and the fact that all magic was drawn from and fueled by elemental and spirits.
==Description==
Spell fetishes were as varied as the spells they contained, from pretty rocks to intricate carvings and poppets. Instead of pouring over their spellbooks, Malatran arcane casters nightly meditated over the selected fetishes to memorize their magical incantations and formulae. Divine magics were sometimes channeled through similar fetishes that could act like a divine focus – a holy symbol crafted out of rocks, bones, skins, feathers and other jungle materials, or be more artistically complex carvings, consumed with use. Such divine fetishes could have a single use or a set number of casting and with each use, the fetish slowly decayed from the inside, eventually becoming fragile and crumbling to dust.
The Kukalatu tribe had a more unique approach to fetishes, of fi in the Kukalatu language. They exclusively used bones, teeth, and hair of the deceased tribe members, usually respected individuals or elders. The older the ancestral fetishes were, the more powerful they became.
Some fetishes required an olfactory component of meditation. Such charms as the stinking cloud spell fetish, made of a broken shell of a rotten egg, or the sleep spell fetish made with died nemuri within a gourd, required the spellcaster to inhale the smells of the fetishes during their meditation. Others required the caster to meditates on mental images and imagining of certain scenarios. For example, the enlarge spell fetish depicted a carving of a fat Nubari and while meditating, the casted needed to focus on the man's size and imagine how he came to be so large.
Some arcane spellcasters of the Living Jungle were able to tap into dark necromantic magics, despite generally spells of the school not functioning on the Malatran Plateau. Headshrinkers, Malatran necromancers, learned to side-step the use of spirit magic of the fetishes by creating phantorrens, a type pf enchanted container that contained spirits drained from living humanoids. This device was limited to the spells of the schools of necromancy and alteration.
===List of Fetishes===
Name 	Spell 	Description
Affect normal fires spell fetish 	Control flames 	?
Alter self spell fetish 	Alter self 	Two multicolored feathers.
Audible glamer spell fetish 	Ghost sound 	?
Blink spell fetish 	Blink 	?
Blur spell fetish 	Blur 	?
Branch to branch spell fetish 	Branch to branch 	A small piece of petrified vine.
Cat's grace fetish 	Cat's grace 	Tufts of reddish fur attached to both sides of a smooth stick.
Ceramic keen edge spell fetish 	Keen edge 	A small ancient ceramic knife.
Change self spell fetish 	Change self 	A dried hind leg of a chameleon.
Charm monster spell fetish 	Charm monster 	A smooth garuda bone decorated with the Wise Ones's symbols.
Charm person spell fetish 	Charm person 	Hide of aikyoo lizard.
Clairvoyance spell fetish 	Clairaudience/clairvoyance 	An eagle's skull.
Cone of cold spell fetish 	Cone of cold 	A small cone made of brass.
Continual flame spell fetish 	Continual flame 	A piece of hardened wood with perfect grain and orange hue.An ancient ceramic figurine of a torch.
Dancing lights spell fetish 	Dancing lights 	Three miniature torches with fire made of bright feathers.
Dig spell fetish 	Dig 	?
Dispel magic spell fetish 	Dispel magic 	A bag of mundane powder of any kind.A gemstone once owned by a spelljamming evil mage named Grimace.A pearl.
Displacement spell fetish 	Displacement 	?
Demi-shadow monsters spell fetish 	Greater shadow conjuration 	A piece of a smoky crystal that reflected light in eerie shifting shapes.
Enlarge spell fetish 	Enlarge 	A figurine of a fat man.
Evard's black tentacle spell fetish 	Evard's black tentacles 	A small bit of tentacle.
Feather fall spell fetish 	Feather fall 	A pouch with a finger bone of a wizard.
Feeblemind spell fetish 	Feeblemind 	?
Feign death spell fetish 	Feign death 	?
Find familiar fetish 	Find familiar 	?
Flame arrow spell fetish 	Flame arrows 	An arrowhead decorated with red parrot feathers.An arrowhead of carved obsidian.
Fly spell fetish 	Fly 	A small bag with a small bird's bones.
Fog cloud spell fetish 	Fog cloud 	A rare purple rock with a foggy pattern.A piece of quartz.
Freedom of movement divine spell fetish 	Freedom of movement 	A black pebble polished by running river waters.
Friends spell fetish 	Friends 	A statuette of two Nubari holding hands.
Gaze reflection spell fetish 	Gaze reflection 	A flat rocked polished to be reflective.
Grease spell fetish 	Grease 	?
Gust of wind spell fetish 	Gust of wind 	?
Haste spell fetish 	Haste 	?
Healing circle spell fetish 	Mass cure wounds 	?
Hold person spell fetish 	Hold person 	A metal needle.
Hypnotic pattern spell fetish 	Hypnotic pattern 	A rock of swirling colors.
Infravision fetish 	Darkvision 	A tone carved with wavy lines.
Invisibility spell fetish 	Invisibility 	?
Irritation spell fetish 	Irritation 	A leaf of poison sumac shrub.
Jump spell fetish 	Jump 	A piece of amber with a cricket suspended within.
Levitate spell fetish 	Levitate 	A pouch with a finger bone of a wizard.
Light spell fetish 	Light 	A piece of obsidian.
Lion necklace 	Taunt 	A necklace of a lion's head carving.
Magic circle against evil spell fetish 	Magic circle against evil 	?
Magic missile spell fetish 	Magic missile 	A small jade arrow carving.
Major image spell fetish 	Major image 	?
Message spell fetish 	Message 	A bright tail-feather of a parrot.A small rock engraved with an image of a blowing wind.
Minor creation spell fetish 	Minor creation 	?
Mirror image spell fetish 	Mirror image 	?
Misdirection spell fetish 	Misdirection 	A poppet woven of lizard skin and feathers with its limbs akimbo.
Polymorph other spell fetish 	Polymorph other 	A piece of ancient ceramics engraved with magic symbols.A mall bag with a lizard's scale, bat's fur, leopard hair, tiger katanga claw, a fishscale, and a frog's leg.
Protection from normal missiles spell fetish	Protection from normal missiles	?
Pyrotechnics spell fetish 	Pyrotechnics 	?
Ray of enfeeblement spell fetish 	Ray of enfeeblement 	A poppet shaped to look like a geriatric warrior or being a weak limp pose.
Scare spell fetish 	Scare 	?
Scrying spell fetish 	Scrying 	?
See invisibility spell fetish 	Detect invisibility 	A piece of white, soft, and powdery tone.
Seeming spell fetish 	Seeming 	A hollow ancient ceramic egg with a pangolin katanga figurine inside.
Shadow conjuration arcane spell fetish 	Shadow conjuration 	A piece of a smoky crystal that reflected light in eerie shifting shapes.
Shaman spell fetish 	Heal 	A small statuette of a Nubari woman with tiny gems for the eyes.
Shatter spell fetish 	Shatter 	?
Shield spell fetish 	Shield 	Small ivory carving of a shield.
Sleep spell fetish 	Sleep 	Dried nemuri plant inside a small gourd.
Slow spell fetish 	Slow 	?
Sound burst spell fetish 	Sound burst 	A piece of cracked crystal.
Spectral forces spell fetish 	Major image 	?
Spectral hand fetish 	Spectral hand 	A shrunken Nubari hand on a stick.
Spider climb spell fetish 	Spider climb 	A small ball of spiderweb.
Spook spell fetish 	Spook 	A piece of wood with a carved image of a scary mask.
Status spell fetish 	Status 	?
Stinking cloud spell fetish 	Stinking cloud 	A shell of a rotten turtle egg.
Strength spell fetish 	Bull's strength 	A bone of a large garuda wrapped in panther fur.A scale from a gnasher garuda.A piece of garuda horn etched with an image of battling garuda and dyed with berry juice.A small carving of a saru.
Suggestion spell fetish 	Suggestion 	A small lyre that could not be played.
Summon monster spell fetish 	Summon monster IV 	A small jade wolf statuette.
Taunt spell fetish 	Taunt 	?
Tongues spell fetish 	Tongues 	Three bones tied with a leather thong.A dried up lizardman tongue.
True strike spell fetish 	True strike 	An arrowhead engraved with runes.
Wall of fog spell fetish 	Wall of fog 	?
Water breathing spell fetish 	Water breathing 	Crawfish shell
Web spell fetish 	Web 	A polished piece of obsidian etched with a spiderweb pattern.A bit of spider's web.
Wind wall spell fetish 	Wind wall 	?
Whispering wind spell fetish 	Whispering wind 	?
==Notable Users==
* Abu the Lackey, a katanga snake oil salesman and a trinket seller.
* Bengoukee, a prolific shaman of the Tribe of Big Chief Bagoomba.
* Ffft, a tiger katanga a confident adventurer who collected numerous fetishes as souvenirs of past encounters.
* Kima, a young saru who hoped to learn magic by practicing with several spell fetishes gifted to her by a jungle wizard.
* Kural, a selfish and greedy korobokuru shaman who hated the Council of Elders.
* Rowr, a dim-witted tiger katanga, an aspiring adventurer.
* Starr, a lacerial shaman.
* Taronee, an infamous shaman of the Koshiva people.
* Tolo, the chief of the Tokotatiana korobokuru tribe.
* Trueblood, a lacerial crafter of spell fetishes.
==Appendix==
===See Also===
* Azuposi fetish magic
* Runestick
===Appearances===
===References===
Category:Magic items
Category:Wondrous items
Category:Items from Toril
Category:Items from Kara-Tur
Category:Items from Malatra
Category:Items from the Malatran Plateau