Hungering Helix
Ring, rare (requires attunement)
A copper gasket ring, smoothed by years of wear and tarnished green by time. While wearing this ring, you no longer need to eat or drink. For GM Eyes Only
A copper gasket ring, smoothed by years of wear and tarnished green by time. While wearing this ring, you no longer need to eat or drink. For GM Eyes Only
Curse. Hungering Helix is one of the thirteen unique Graven Rings. Like the others in the set, it bears a terrible curse.
This ring is cursed. This fact is not revealed by the detect magic or identify spells. If the ring is identified, it appears as a Ring of Nourishment. Attuning to the Helix curses you until special removal requirements are met. While cursed, the ring cannot be removed or unattuned.
While cursed, all food and drink lose their taste and nourishment. You suffer from unending hunger and thirst. You can still eat and drink, but doing so hastens your starvation. For every day you consume a full ration, you suffer 1 level of exhaustion that cannot be removed by any means short of the curse’s removal.
If you choose not to eat or drink, you die of starvation as normal.
Removal Requirements. To remove the curse, you must eat a still-beating heart and have remove curse or a similar effect cast upon you.
History. The ring comes from a dismantled Klaxon Thresher. The Helix's first bearer was a nameless farmer, one of many ruined when the imposter Gravens outlawed the use of machinery in farming. This decree, justified under the guise of Klaxon Threshers attacking civilians, led to famine and the collapse of local agriculture. I have enough evidence to suspect those attacks were staged to seize power through control of food, forcing imports from overseas.
The Helix became the most famous Graven Ring among scholars, when a small town in Mortéglace all starved to death in 6,034 DA. Its current location is unknown.
A symbol found where the Hungering Helix has been.
