Gem of insight

A gem of insight was a magic item that made it easier for whoever carried it to understand things.

Description
These items were always jewels worth at least 5,000 gp without the magical enchantment.

Powers
After being carried for two weeks, a gem of insight began making it easier for its carrier to understand things and boosted their memory. After possessing the gem for three months, the carrier would actually become more intelligent and wise. If an individual no longer carried the gem after that three month period, their intelligence would remain boosted, but their wisdom would revert back to normal. A gem of insight could only provide these benefits once per individual.

A variant, directly belonging to Labelas Enoreth, allowed a person to delve within their own psyche and explore it, possibly achieving therapeutic ends.

History

 * A party of malevolent wizards had been slain, leaving behind a gem of insight within the caverns around the duergar dwellings in the mines of Bloodstone.
 * The Thelaeneum in Myth Drannor had a belt with such a gem lying yet unclaimed as of.

Known Users

 * The archlich Bandaerl hid one such gem was hidden in a chest's fake bottom within a temple of Dumathoin, later a part of Undermountain
 * Shur, a human mage and nature-lover, carried a gem of insight.
 * Nicknack, an ettin druid, had one too.
 * Vartan Hai Sylvar had used a variant gem of insight sourced from Labelas Enoreth to save Dwalimar Omen from an unknown disease.
 * Omar Hazeem Al-Malik, a mummy, possessed one too.
 * Eulaos, a priest of Cyric, had a medallion of insight that functioned essentially the same way.
 * King Ornoth I had been entombed with such a gem.
 * The hoard of Ralas included another such gem.