Zellara’s Harrow Deck
Aura moderate divination; CL 10th
Slot —; Price —; Weight 1 lb.
Statistics
Alignment CG; Ego 8
Senses 60 ft. vision and hearing
Int 10, Wis 13, Cha 13
Communication empathy
Lesser Powers identify 3/day, major image 1/day
Special Purpose defend Korvosa
Description
Hand-painted images decorate this Harrow deck, the
frames gilt in silver so that under lighting they sparkle and
flash. Despite the worn condition of the card backs, the
images on the faces are so vibrant they seem to move when
viewed out of the corner of the eye. The deck itself handles
with surprising ease, almost shuffling itself. A bent, torn, or
lost card always seems to mend itself or reappear when no
one is looking.
These features are subtle manifestations of the spirit
that haunts the cards. In life, Zellara lived by this deck,
and in death, she has become the deck. Although this
magical Harrow deck wasn’t created using the standard
method for creating magic items, it should nonetheless
be treated as an intelligent magic item. Zellara can sense
the world around the deck via sight and sound, and she
can communicate with anyone who holds the deck via
empathy. She can create a major image once per day, often
doing so to generate an image of herself manipulating
the cards—in this manner, she can carry on conversations
with other creatures. She can also identify a magic item’s
properties if one of her cards is touched to it, as the
spell identify, up to 3 times per day. When she does so,
knowledge of the item identified manifests in the mind of
one creature she chooses who is also holding at least one
card, or she can opt to describe the item’s functions via a
major image.
Zellara’s Harrow deck has a special purpose as well:
to defend and protect the city of Korvosa, her home in
life and in death. In order to attain this purpose, she
can periodically perform powerful Harrow readings
for those she has chosen as Korvosa’s defenders—the
PCs. Consult the Harrow article on page 58 and the
notes on Zellara’s reading on page 12 for details on how
these potent divinations can help the PCs during this
Adventure Path.
Zellara can suppress the deck’s powers at will and
doesn’t hesitate to do so if anyone attempts to sell
the deck or otherwise displeases her. At best, a foolish
character could possibly sell the cards as a standard
Harrow deck—thus, no pricing information for the deck
itself is needed.
