DMing Chemistry

 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 ...

  Old Khepsu is the name of the largest river of the lands of the Reptilians , and the god that dwells in its waters. While usually calm, once a year the river floods and buries everything in its path with rich black sediment, which allows for the cultivation of the best crops in the known world. However woe betide anyone caught in these floodwaters, as they will be swept along, and their mangled corpses shall be a feast for the vultures and the crocodiles. Old Khepsu as a god is usually calm and benevolent, however he is sometimes suddenly overcome with rage, then he just attacks and destroys everything around him. According to legend, he sometimes even strikes the face of Atar-Numash , so hard he stars to cry. This is why it sometimes rains, even when the sun is shining. After he calms down, he is always very apologetic, and it is believed that his blessing of good harvest after the flood is is his way of making up for his acting in anger. To his clerics Old Khepsu bestows the po...

Most deities have a host of lesser supernatural agents helping them carry out their duties, which are collectively referred to as the servitors of the gods. Usually these are their offspring, transfigured souls of beloved followers, or creature purpose-made to fulfill their tasks. A such, their forms can vary wildly from deity to deity, and even from task to task. Some would pass for mortals, some are unbearably beautiful, and some are so alien, as to be indescribable. Generally those servitors who are meant to interact with mortals look the most like them, or at least as a mixture of things mortals can comprehend. Those that are so alien as to cause mortals to flee in terror from just glimpsing their forms, usually are meant to ensure the proper functioning of the world from behind the scenes. This, however has not stopped mortals from using magic to call forth servitors they have no business dealing with, often with tragic results.

  Nim-Kippur was a Bronze Elf hero who lived a few hundred years ago. He founded the city of Nim-Artash, slew many monsters including the dragon named The Flying Pestilence, and the man-eating giant Martok. According to the priests in Nim-Artash, when he died, he was raised to dwell among the gods. The same priests claim that one of the swords in their care once belonged to this legendary hero. The sword in question is a nice, but not overly decorated one, made out of bronze with brass decorations along the crossguard and the hilt. It is made in a style that has fallen out of style in the last century, being somewhat shorter and thicker than most swords made today, but since it is maintained so well by the temple, it is hard to say its real age. Various myths of the surrounding lands ascribe magical powers to the sword, such as being able to cut anything, up to and including boulders, chariots, and even solid bars of copper. Another often mentioned ability in those legends is its...

 In the lands of the Reptilians , in the city of Khetesh, there is a continual flame watched over by an order of clerics, which is said to have been going since the creation of the world. According to the clerics, it was lit by Hath-Ur , when she came down from the sky for a brief moment, and her heat lit a tarpit alight. After the tar was gone, the clerics kept feeding the holy flames and finally moved them to a temple built specifically to house it. While there is some debate about the authenticity of this account, it is undeniable that the Flame of Khetesh is not an ordinary flame. It burns brighter than any other fire of its size, and its color is more washed out than normal fire. There have been accounts of little pieces of the Flame being taken to dangerous quests of unparalleled importance, and reportedly no demons were able to come into the area lit by the Flame, and those that found themselves there, were immediately paralyzed with pain. There is also a report that describ...

 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

 Oresians are strange, ethereal creatures that dance through a myriad worlds on rays of moonlight. Sometimes they misstep, and get trapped in our world. They don't tend to last long, given their physiology is ill-suited to a world with such rigid laws of physics, such caustic atmosphere, and such a sharp divide between dreams and reality. Still, they try their best to survive, and maybe on the night of the next full moon return to dancing across alien skies. But to do that, they need sustenance, and that can be a problem. They feed on dreams and aspirations, but unlike the more naturalized beings, they have no good way of extracting them from a person's skull, without opening it up and slurping down the brain. For a while they can subsist on animals, but the dreams of a goat or a rat can only go so far. Sooner or later they will try to take more sapient prey. They look like giant masses of tentacles with translucent, insect-like wings and large compound eyes. No two are exactly...