Brassbound Hero’s Mark

UncommonInvestedMagical

Price 30 gp

Usage worn (badge); Bulk —

An ancient dwarven champion’s insignia is cast in dark brass and engraved with a broken shield and an outstretched hand. It grows warm when its bearer intervenes on behalf of an ally. An obsolete maker’s stamp associates it with Barak Thuld.

Activate ◇

Frequency twice per day

Trigger You hit an enemy with a melee Strike. At the moment of the hit, that enemy is within reach of an ally who is within 15 feet of you.

Requirements You have invested the mark and are wearing it.

Effect Choose one ally meeting the trigger’s conditions. That ally gains 2 temporary Hit Points until the start of your next turn. These temporary Hit Points do not stack with other temporary Hit Points; use the higher amount.

Limitations This activation doesn’t make an additional Strike, change the triggering Strike’s damage, or use a reaction. It does not move a divine spark or count as an ikon or transcendence.

Source: War of Immortals · Exemplar class feat

Exemplar

Item benefit While you are an exemplar who has invested and is wearing the mark, you gain the benefits of the Sanctified Soul feat. Choose holy or unholy when investing the badge, retaining that choice until your next daily preparations. If you already possess this feat, its effects do not stack; the badge cannot replace or reverse your existing sanctification.

Effect You are sanctified with the chosen holy or unholy trait. Your exemplar abilities that inflict spirit damage also become sanctified, so they can carry your chosen holy or unholy trait when affecting susceptible creatures.

This benefit does not make the badge an ikon, change where your divine spark resides, grant extra ikons, or alter your class’s immanence and transcendence limits.

Source: Player Core · Divine protective cantrip

Item activation ◆◆ (concentrate, manipulate); Frequency at will; Requirements you have invested and are wearing the mark. You cast the cantrip through the mark at rank 1 without requiring a spellcasting feature.

CantripConcentrateManipulate

Traditions Divine, Occult

Cast ◆◆

Range 30 feet

Targets 1 ally and 1 enemy

Duration sustained up to 1 minute

Effect You ward the ally against your chosen enemy. That ally gains a +1 status bonus to AC and saving throws against that enemy’s attacks, spells, and other effects. You must Sustain the spell to maintain the protection beyond its initial duration.

Heightened (6th) The status bonus increases to +2.

The mark casts the spell at rank 1; the heightened entry is included for rules reference only. The spell’s status bonus does not stack with other status bonuses to the same statistics.

Special The badge must be invested. No spellcasting or particular class is required for Stand Beside Me or Forbidding Ward; the Sanctified Soul benefit applies only to an exemplar. The badge is not an ikon, cannot house a divine spark, and does not modify an exemplar’s normal class abilities. Stand Beside Me’s daily uses belong to the item and do not refresh when it changes hands.

Custom homebrew permanent item.

Brassbound Hero’s Mark

Stand Beside Me ◇

Sanctified Soul

Forbidding Ward ◆◆