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.[1][2][3]
Description[]
These light staves were usually crafted from shadow-wood.[2][3]
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.[2][3]
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.[1][2][3] He later lost one of these while exploring the Dungeon of the Crypt with the Company of Crazed Venturers.[3]
When Elminster Aumar examined one of these staves, he discovered its command word was "Baerlaguth".[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ed Greenwood, Steve Perrin (May 1988). The Magister. Edited by Karen S. Boomgarden. (TSR, Inc.), p. 49. ISBN 0-88038-564-2.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Eric L. Boyd (June 2005). City of Splendors: Waterdeep. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 149. ISBN 0-7869-3693-2.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Eric L. Boyd (October 2005). “Vampires of Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Crypt”. Dungeon #127 (Paizo Publishing, LLC) (127)., p. 78.