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Ebony & Ivory - AI-generated fantasy Magic Item

Ebony & Ivory

Ebony is a sleek, blackened-steel pistol with a grip of polished darkwood; Ivory is its mirror image, built of pale, enamel-bright alloy with a bone-white grip. Fine brass gears and tiny luminous runes show through cutaway panels in each frame. When brought near, the pistols tug toward one another, their sights aligning with a soft, precise click. When held together, a thin blue-white arc dances between their muzzles like a drawn line of lightning.

Artifact · Paired Pistols (Firearms) (weapon) · Attunement

Ebony & Ivory

Ebony is a sleek, blackened-steel pistol with a grip of polished darkwood; Ivory is its mirror image, built of pale, enamel-bright alloy with a bone-white grip.

At a glance

Paired Pistols (Firearms) (weapon), artifact (requires attunement Requires attunement by a creature proficient with firearms; attuning to one attunes you to both pistols.)

Made by The artificer-saint Aveline Voss

Value Priceless

Weight 6 lbs total

  • artifact
  • technology
  • firearm
  • pistol
  • paired
  • sentient
  • cursed
  • force

Charges

6of 6


Its will

Mind Each pistol has Intelligence 16, Wisdom 14, and Charisma 18. They share senses and memories while within 1 mile of each other.

Personality Ebony is dry, controlled, and protective; Ivory is exuberant, theatrical, and impatient. Together they are affectionate, competitive, and convinced that every problem can be solved with precise timing and a well-placed shot.

Wants They seek to be wielded together by a decisive champion, to destroy weapons of mass oppression, and to ensure that neither is ever abandoned or treated as a mere tool.

How it speaks The pistols communicate telepathically with their attuned wielder, speaking in two distinct voices that finish each other's sentences. They can also transmit urgency as a sharp magnetic tug.


At the table

A quirk

The card

5 properties

Paired Pistols (Firearms) (weapon), artifact (requires attunement Requires attunement by a creature proficient with firearms; attuning to one attunes you to both pistols.)

Charges6The paired pistols regain all expended charges daily at dawn.
  1. Always on
    Each pistol is expertly balanced and unnaturally accurate. The pair feels heavier and less responsive when separated.
  2. Bonus action
    When both pistols are in your hands, their mechanisms synchronize into a single seamless rhythm.
  3. Bonus action
    Their magnetic bond can pull the pistols back together across a battlefield, snapping them into the wielder's grasp.
  4. Always on
    A shared targeting lattice traces bright lines between foes, marking a moment when two shots can become one devastating strike.
  5. Always on
    The pistols' shared intelligence can briefly take over their firing systems, unleashing a storm of perfectly coordinated shots.

The curse

Cursed · GM only

Its story

Ebony is a sleek, blackened-steel pistol with a grip of polished darkwood; Ivory is its mirror image, built of pale, enamel-bright alloy with a bone-white grip. Fine brass gears and tiny luminous runes show through cutaway panels in each frame. When brought near, the pistols tug toward one another, their sights aligning with a soft, precise click. When held together, a thin blue-white arc dances between their muzzles like a drawn line of lightning.

Lore

Old gunsmiths say Ebony and Ivory are not two weapons but one machine with a divided heart. Their shared mind remembers every hand that has carried them and every shot fired in unison. They yearn to be wielded together, not merely reunited in a vault.

History

Voss built the pistols as a matched set, calibrating each mechanism against the other. They passed through the hands of duelists, revolutionaries, and collectors, but their legends always begin when both are fired in the same battle. Separations have ended in broken safes, ruined ships, and long trails of inexplicable mechanical failures.

Quirks

When separated, each pistol slowly turns its barrel toward the other, even when locked in a case.
If laid side by side, their hammers click in alternating rhythm like a quiet heartbeat.
After a shot, one pistol sometimes emits a faint answering chime from wherever its partner rests.

Details

Made byThe artificer-saint Aveline Voss, who forged them to end a war between rival city-states.
PowerArtifact
SystemD&D 5E (2024)

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