The Lich's Last Wager

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This pair of twenty-sided dice is carved from yellowed knucklebones, each face polished smooth as old ivory. Hairline cracks glow with a faint violet radiance, and tiny runes in Infernal and Necril circle every number. One die bears a dark iron pip at its center; the other has a single ruby set beneath its highest face. When held, the dice are unnaturally cold, and their numbers seem to shift whenever their owner makes an important decision.

The Lich's Favor While attuned to the dice, you can use them as a reaction when you are about to make a d20 roll, including an attack roll, ability check, saving throw, or death saving throw. Roll both dice, which are twenty-sided dice, and allow the DM to choose which result the dice produce. The chosen result is the one that best advances the lich's overriding desire at that moment. The chosen die's face is treated as the natural result of the roll, including a natural 1 or natural 20. The DM determines the lich's desire from its history, personality, and unfinished ambitions; the result might aid you, harm you, or produce a seemingly unrelated consequence if that would better serve the lich.

A Soul's Single Throw A creature can benefit from The Lich's Favor only once ever. After you use the dice, they become mundane knucklebone dice to you and cannot function for you again, even if you lose attunement, are resurrected, reincarnated, or later encounter the dice in another form. The dice can still function for other creatures that have never used them.

Unavoidable Outcome The dice cannot be influenced by advantage, disadvantage, rerolls, luck, divination, or effects that alter a die roll after it is made. If an effect would prevent the roll entirely, the dice remain unused.

Lore

The dice were carved by the lich Vhalzura the Unfinished from the finger bones of her own former body. Vhalzura believed that chance was merely ignorance given a name, and she sought to eliminate uncertainty from existence. She made the dice to ensure that every wager, battle, and prophecy would end in a result favorable to her grand design. The dice do not obey their bearer. They obey Vhalzura's ambition.

History

Vhalzura lost the dice during the Siege of Hollowglass, when a paladin challenged her to a final game before destroying her phylactery. The paladin used the dice to choose which of three doors concealed the phylactery. The dice selected the correct door, but the chamber beyond contained Vhalzura's waiting soul jar and a prepared trap. The paladin won the wager and shattered the phylactery, yet the lich's final desire was fulfilled: her name became a legend repeated across the world. Since then, the dice have passed from gambler to tyrant to desperate hero, granting each exactly one throw while quietly serving the ambition of their dead creator.

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