The Exile's Gift

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The Ivory Swan is a beautiful swan carved of ivory and inlaid with silver. A pair of pearls of impossible smallness serve the place of eyes. At the command of the item's owner, the ivory swan grows into a full size swan. It may take this form for up to 8 hours at time, and may not be active for more than 24 hours in a given week.

Special Ability (Activation by Elf Only): The swan may lay a silver egg, worth about 2-5 sp. This ability requires that the swan be activated and stationary for eight hours, after which time the egg is laid and the swan reverts to statuette form.

It has a second ability most owners do not know about. Each Ivory Swan is imbued with some of The Lady's own essence, and may be used once to cast Raise Dead on any corpse that has died in the last 24 hours. If the possessor is killed violently, the item will auto-activate at an appropriate time, as judged by the swan itself. It will not activate when obviously surrounded by enemies, for example, but is capable of being tricked and has only normal perception. Well, normal being relative.

Anise and Al were given this item upon their exile from Sidhe-Praxen.