2025 Jun 30: Wolfskin Belt

 Wolfskin belts are one of the few magic items that don't require expensive ingredients or much magical knowledge to create. In all that is needed is the pelt of a wolf, a small offering of flesh from something a wolf would eat, and a short prayer to Wolf of the Great Beasts. If the spirit of the wolf to whom the pelt belonged to accepts the sacrifice, Wolf will allow whoever jumps through the hoop of the belt made from the pelt to take the form of the deceased wolf. To turn back, the user must jump through the hoop again, from the other direction. 

For the ease of making the jumps, most wolfskin belts are made much longer than normal belts, which can help to distinguish them from normal articles of clothing. Usually they are undecorated, or only have small keepsakes of the former owner dangling from them, but the few that were made by rich and powerful sorcerers are of course suitably adorned, usually with silver and/or rubies, both associated with Wolf.

As they are so easy to make, these belts are usually produced by wandering sorcerers of lower standing. In fact, if somebody has even the smallest bit of affinity to the mystic arts, they can produce a working belt, if they know the proper prayer. As the prayer itself is relatively well-known, lots of settlements have their own "wolf-men" who own such a belt, and use it to get revenge on people they couldn't hurt as a person.

As a consequence, most noble-born sorcerers see these items as vulgar, or an apprentice's first work, and so they usually feel it is beneath them to make them, leading to the relative rarity of high-quality wolfskin belts.