Item

The Deck of Thirteen Seals

This mysterious artifact consists of thirteen cards crafted from an otherworldly material that appears entirely black with an iridescent, prismatic sheen visible from every angle. The cards possess an uncanny sentience, revealing their faces only when drawn with true randomness, as though they themselves determine the moment of disclosure. Upon revelation, each card displays a single enigmatic image before crumbling to ash, its magic spent eternally. The manifestation of each card's meaning is absolute and inescapable—the drawer receives exactly what the card portends, whether blessing or calamity. Fortune favors the bold but not always the wise, as seven cards promise beneficial outcomes such as legendary treasures, powerful companions, or miraculous wishes, while the remaining six cards threaten terrible fates including crystalline entombment, devastating curses, or quests of desperate rescue. Those who dare to draw from this deck gamble not merely for reward, but with the very fabric of their destiny, for the price of failure may exceed any conceivable gain.