Fire elemental gem

Fire Elemental Gem
Rules Information
2nd Edition Statistics
Value	30,000 gp
3rd Edition Statistics
Caster level	5th
Value	750 gp Small Elemental 2,250 gp Medium Elemental 3,300 gp Large Elemental 4,550 gp Huge Elemental 6,000 gp Greater Elemental 7,650 gp Elder Elemental

A fire elemental gem was a magic item to summon and control a fire elemental.

Description

To create a fire elemental gem, a well-cut, faceted gem of red, pink, orange, or amber hue was used.

Powers

There were two versions of fire elemental gems. The first worked like a brazier of commanding fire elementals. The former allowed the summoning of a fire elemental from any fire source. The second was a one-shot item that was cheaper but needed to be crushed, smashed, broken, or otherwise destroyed to work. On crushing a summon monster–effect that was stored in the gem was released and, because it was attuned to the Elemental Plane of Fire, a fire elemental appeared.

Once called, the fire elemental did not attack the user of the gem, provided the gem was openly shown to them, if the non-one-shot version was used. The reason for this behavior was that the fire elemental preferred returning to its home in the Elemental Plane of Fire over attacking the user. If the one-shot version was used, the fire elemental was like one summoned by a summon monster spell and therefore under the complete control of the user.

There were no requirements to use a fire elemental gem.

To create a fire elemental gem, a summon monster III spell or higher was needed, depending on how strong the elemental to be summoned was supposed to be.

History

Fire elemental gems were magic items associated with the drow. The one-shot version was frequently used by surface drow.