Staff of banishment

Staves of banishment, also known as wands of banishment, were a type of magical short staff created to rid the Prime Material plane of powerful other-worldly creatures.

Description
These light staves were usually crafted from shadow-wood.

Powers
The staves possessed a limited number of charges of the spells banishment, dismissal, repulsion and slow, which could be cast by the wielder upon utterance of a command word.

History
This type of staff was conceived by the young mage Savengriff, apprentice of Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun. He crafted just over a dozen of these powerful staves and distributed them among his friends and colleagues in the North, including Khelben. He later lost one of these while exploring the Dungeon of the Crypt with the Company of Crazed Venturers.

When Elminster Aumar examined one of these staves, he discovered its command word was "Baerlaguth".

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * Dungeon #127, "Vampires of Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Crypt"