Dhonas's Shroud

Dhonas's Shroud was an artifact known within the ancient Imaskar Empire. It was one of the False Imaskarcana.

An alliance of Imaskari archwizards known as the Cabal of Madness created Dhonas's Shroud and a number of other masks, each themed around a school of magic, over decades after striking a bargain with horrors from beyond their world. Each of those major artifacts were created with a curse that only the creator knew how to avoid. Before they were able to implement their plans, however, the Mulhorandi rebelled with the aid of their gods, ultimately destroying Imaskar as a nation. In the resulting tumult, the masks were scattered.

Dhonas's Shroud was a mask made of silver plates, with large colored eyeglasses, a wire mesh covering the mouth, and a gray cloth covering the back of the head. It increased greatly the power of all illusion magic the wearer could cast, and provided an extreme resistance against it. It also granted the ability to cast a number of powerful illusion spells. The wearer of the mask was continuously protected by a displacement effect. However, every day it had a chance in five of haunting the wearer with horrid nightmares forever.

After the empire's fall, in, the surviving artificer Kujawa carried Dhonas's Shroud and claimed the Dragon Throne in the Khati city of Thakos, the former capital of Upper Imaskar. With that, he declared himself Emperor and founded a new realm, Anok-Imaskar.