Ruins of the Starcourt Archive: Archeologist's Prize

Deep within the collapsed ceremonial halls of an age-worn archive, your party found a sealed reliquary room behind a stone mural of a forgotten patron of knowledge. The chamber's last caretakers had hidden their treasures in layered niches and behind false pedestals. What you recover is a mixture of high magic, scholarly relics, and raw materials: world-class wondrous items suited to archmages and war leaders, wealth in gemstones and coin to fund campaigns and kingdoms, and uncommon crafting components that speak to lost smithing techniques. Some items are intact and ready for use; others are fragments or single-use artifacts that will require study and careful handling. This hoard is appropriate for a party of the twentieth level: powerful, potentially campaign-defining items balanced by finite uses or the need for attunement, and several pieces meant as material rewards for crafters and patrons rather than instant power boosts.