The Ethereal Emporium is a mysterious shop, welcoming all business but hard to get to. You see, it's located in Liberjinn City, on the Elemental Plane of Air. This is a city inhabited by elemental spirits and freed Djinn, and its architecture defies both gravity and most physics. The shop's owner and merchant, Kharidi the Austere, is a warm and effusive host, offering conjured tea of fantastical flavours while doing business, as well as small lozenges of a jelly-like sweet, rolled in sparkling sugary dust. His wares are equally fantastical, but well worth the trip, and he is as willing to purchase as to sell any magical items he finds interesting.
Among his wares are the following: 1. Blue smoke - A rigid, slightly opaque substance, from paper-thickness to a full inch thick, and entirely immune to fire damage. Those touching it can feel no warmth through it, no matter the intensity of flame on the other side. It weighs next-to-nothing but can be somewhat brittle. This is popular for making expensive decorative windows, but can also be fashioned into other shapes- a shield or dome, perhaps. 2. Essence of Sunlight - This tea, harvested from floating earthbergs high in the Elemental Plane of Air, has been exposed to perhaps the purest sunlight in creation. Drinking the tea feels like dawn's first kiss upon the face, midday's harsh rays overhead, or the golden afternoon light, depending on how it is brewed. Popular among those who cannot actually enter sunlight for any reason, and incredibly exotic. Sells for 100 gold pieces per pound (twice the value of actual gold). 3. Airfluid - This substance, developed by Kharidi himself, is harvested from the admixture of the Elemental Planes of Air and Water. It is a nearly invisible liquid that sloshes heavily and fizzes like soda water if disturbed. Drinking this allows a water-dweller to breathe air, or an air-breather to breathe water, for six hours. He stresses that after this, they must return to their own environment, as the body rejects another dose until someone has finished a long rest. 4. Gellybirds - These curious animals, native to the Elemental Plane of Air, make for fascinating pets. They appear somewhat like jellyfish with intangible fronds fringing all of their tentacles, but 'swim' through the air, and are entirely unaffected by gravity, even upon reaching another plane where it would normally apply. They are small, up to human-hand-size, and have no intelligence whatsoever. They must be fed on sunlight daily, and wilt away like old balloons if not exposed to direct sunlight (or its essence) at least once per day. 5. Soarwood Bonsai - These tiny trees grow on small rocks, and levitate lightly. They are cheap curios that Kharidi is happy to give away as gifts to make a larger sale, or go for around 10 gold pieces each. Several are decorated with exotic coins hung on their branches, or tiny clay humanoid figures. 6. Stalker Skin - This somewhat hush-hush offer is made from a magically preserved skin of an invisible stalker. This inside is quite sticky, and once donned, it cannot be removed easily, or in one piece. It can be worn like a cloak, making someone naturally invisible for as long as they remain at above one-half their maximum hit points, although they can still make attacks, and so on. After they are damaged, Kharidi explains, it starts to unravel and parts of them show through it. Also posted on Game Masters Stash on 19 June 2021. Comments are closed.
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