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Origami Eagle

wondrous item, rare

This sheet of parchment has been enchanted with powerful magic. The parchment has a faint aura of divination magic that can be detected by spells such as detect magic. It can be used once per day, and regains its magic at dawn.

Message

You can use an action to write a short message of up to 50 words on the parchment and also write the name of a creature you are familiar with. Then you can speak a command word and the parchment will fold itself into an origami eagle and fly away, seeking the creature whose name you wrote. The origami eagle can travel across any plane of existence.

Delivery

The origami eagle will reach the intended recipient, regardless of physical and planar distance, within 24 hours. The recipient can use an action to unfold the paper eagle and read the message. Once the message is read, the paper eagle will fly back to you and land on your shoulder, where it will revert back to its parchment form and erase all the writing on it.

Failure

The paper eagle will not be able to find the intended recipient and will fly around aimlessly for 24 hours before returning to you and reverting back to its parchment form and erasing all the writing on it in any of the following cases:

The recipient is hidden from divination magic, such as by a spell like Mind Blank (abjuration)
Level: 8
Casting Time: 1 action
Concentration: No
Ritual: No
The target is immune to psychic damage, reading thoughts, divination spells, and the charmed condition.
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Level: 3
Casting Time: 1 action
Concentration: No
Ritual: No
Protect a creature or an object from any divination magic or magical scrying.
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The recipient is a creature you are not familiar with, meaning you have never met them or have no clear idea of who they are.
The recipient is dead or does not exist.
The recipient is in a location that is inaccessible to the paper eagle, such as a sealed vault or an antimagic field.

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Lore

The paper eagle was created by the Lady of Pain, the mysterious ruler of Sigil, the City of Doors. She has the ability to create and destroy portals to any plane of existence at will, and she occasionally grants this power to some of her favored servants or visitors. She enchanted a sheet of parchment with a piece of her essence and folded it into an origami eagle, which she then gave to a wizard who impressed her with his origami skills. The wizard used the paper eagle to communicate with his allies across the multiverse, but he eventually lost it in one of his adventures. The paper eagle has since found its way to the material plane, where it has been passed down through generations of heroes and adventurers who use it to communicate across the multiverse.

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