A piwafwi was a drow cloak that granted increased powers of stealth and hiding. It came in two varieties, lesser and greater.[1]
Description[]
A piwafwi was a dark-hued cloak.[1]
Powers[]
A lesser piwafwi was identical in ability to a cloak of elvenkind.[1][3] When the hood was drawn over the head, it increased the wearer's ability to hide.[2]
A greater piwafwi was a piwafwi with the added property of fire resistance.[1] It was also known as a piwafwi of fire resistance.[3]
Some drow piwafwi cloaks that found their way to the surface possessed enchantments that protected the wearer from piercing and slashing weapons, improved their protection against various poisons, and made them unaffected by spiderwebs and the web spell. Additionally, the cloak gave non-drow who wore it the ability to summon darkness once per day.[4]
Creation[]
The creator of a piwafwi had to be a drow and had to know the spells endure elements and invisibility.[1]
Uses[]
Many piwafwi, especially those of drow nobles or wizards, were known to have other magical enchantments on them that made them strong enough to be resistant to magical and melee attacks.[5][6]
Like many other drow items, direct sunlight would destroy a piwafwi, rendering it useless after two weeks of exposure. Even moonlight would fade it some. This was changed when Liriel Baenre inscribed a rune on the tree Yggdrasil's Child, allowing drow objects and magic to survive on the surface.[7]
By the late 1490s DR, a piwafwi would lose its magic after merely one hour of continuous exposure to sunlight.[3]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Reynolds, Forbeck, Jacobs, Boyd (March 2003). Races of Faerûn. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 173. ISBN 0-7869-2875-1.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, Skip Williams (July 2003). Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 253. ISBN 0-7869-2889-1.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Christopher Perkins, Adam Lee, Richard Whitters (September 1, 2015). Out of the Abyss. Edited by Jeremy Crawford. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 222. ISBN 978-0-7869-6581-6.
- ↑ BioWare (December 2003). Designed by Brent Knowles. Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark. Atari.
- ↑ Richard Lee Byers (August 2003). Dissolution. (Wizards of the Coast), chaps. 1, 8, 18, 23, 24, pp. 5, 110, 276–277, 333, 352. ISBN 0-7869-2944-8.
- ↑ R.A. Salvatore (September 2005). The Two Swords. (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 0-7869-3790-4.
- ↑ Elaine Cunningham (March 2003). Tangled Webs. (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 0-7869-2959-6.