2025 Jun 23: Otters

 According to the sage Ashtun of Nashat-Ippur, otters are among the Five Wise Animals and bear the gift of prophesy. While the latter is almost certainly an exaggeration, priests, sorcerers, and other wise men have used the image of otters as a shorthand for learning and wisdom for hundreds of years. 

Otter bones have a strange magical affinity to magic involving the manipulation of the weather, and are often used in magic items, or as spellcasting foci when such an effect is required. Otters are also completely immune to lightning, and their hides can be made into lightning-proof tents, or cloaks that greatly reduce or straight-up nullify the effects of lightning-based magic on the wearer.

 Davepape, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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