Skip to content
CharGen Icon
CreatePricing

The Boots Of Hyperion

A matched pair of high riding boots fashioned from supple ivory leather, with golden sunbursts embossed at the ankles and bronze soles engraved with the turning hours of the day. Their laces resemble braided sunbeams. When worn, their edges shimmer with heatless light, and each footfall leaves a brief print of glowing gold that fades before the next heartbeat.

Magic items
Artifact · Boots (wearable) · Attunement

The Boots Of Hyperion

A matched pair of high riding boots fashioned from supple ivory leather, with golden sunbursts embossed at the ankles and bronze soles engraved with the turning hours of the day.

At a glance

Boots (wearable), artifact (requires attunement by a creature)

Made by Hephaestus

Value Priceless

Weight 2 lbs

  • artifact
  • boots
  • sun
  • speed
  • teleportation
  • fire-resistance
  • Greek-mythology

Charges

10of 10

At the table

A quirk

The card

4 properties

Boots (wearable), artifact (requires attunement by a creature)

Charges10The boots regain expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the boots become dormant until the next dawn.
  1. Always on
    The wearer's stride borrows the sun's tireless momentum.
  2. Always on
    The golden soles can find purchase on open air, water, and sheer surfaces.
  3. Always on
    The boots shed the warmth of a gentle sunrise, turning aside ordinary flames.
  4. Bonus action
    The wearer can spend the boots' stored radiance to perform a few legendary feats of speed and sunlight.

Its story

A matched pair of high riding boots fashioned from supple ivory leather, with golden sunbursts embossed at the ankles and bronze soles engraved with the turning hours of the day. Their laces resemble braided sunbeams. When worn, their edges shimmer with heatless light, and each footfall leaves a brief print of glowing gold that fades before the next heartbeat.

Lore

The Boots of Hyperion embody the path of the sun: swift, unwavering, and impossible to keep from the horizon. Legends say they have crossed the sky in a single stride and carried their wearer through the threshold between day and night.

History

Hephaestus forged the boots for Hyperion, Titan of the heavenly lights, to carry him across the vault of the sky. After the Titans' defeat, the boots vanished from Olympus. They have since appeared in the possession of mortal heroes at moments when the sun's course or the world's safety was threatened.

Quirks

The boots' glow brightens slightly at sunrise and dims at sunset.
Their wearer leaves a trail of golden footprints only visible in darkness, and the prints fade after a few seconds.
When the wearer stands still beneath an open sky, the boots quietly tick like a celestial clock.

Details

Made byHephaestus, divine smith of Olympus
PowerArtifact
SystemD&D 5E

Media

0 images

No images yet.

Visual sheet

Turn The Boots Of Hyperion into a sheet

A high-res, share-ready sheet you can post or print.