H'rethi Soul Scepter

Alter: This golden scepter has an empty basin at its end that's always hot to the touch, as if it had been left out in the sun. While attuned to the rod, you can walk normally on difficult terrain caused by sand and can tolerate temperatures as hot as 200 degrees Fahrenheit.

The rod has 20 charges for the following properties. It regains 2d6+8 charges daily at dawn. If the rod is reduced to 0 charges, roll a d20. On a 1, the rod dissolves into a pile of sand.

Sandblast: While holding the rod, you can use an action to expend 1 charge and send out a cascade of pressurized sand at a target you can see within 60 feet of you. Make a ranged spell attack using the scepter with a +10 attack bonus. On a hit, the sand deals 4d6 bludgeoning damage and disappears after the attack.

Sandstorm: While holding the rod, you can use an action to expend 5 charges to cause a flurry of sand to whip up and swirl around you. The sand creates a blistering maelstrom that follows you in a 15 foot radius, 30 foot high cylinder and makes the area heavily obscured for creatures other than you. It remains as long as you concentrate (as if concentrating on a spell), toa maximum of 1 hour. Arrows, bolts, and other ordinary projectiles fly upward and automatically miss when they enter the area. Any creature that moves into the sandstorm for the first time on its turn or starts its turn there must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw. A creature takes 4d10 bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. You are immune to this bludgeoning damage. The sand disappears once the storm subsudes.

If you are standing on sandy ground while concentrating on a sandstorm, you can use a bonus action to teleport to another unoccupied space you can see within 60 feet of you that is also sandy ground.

Sand Summon: While holding  the rod, you can use an action to expend 3 charges to cause the ground in a 30 foot radius centered on a point you can see within 60 feet of you to turn to shifting sands for up to 1 minute. You can end the effect early as a bonus action. For the duration, a creature must spend 3 feet of movement for every one foot it moves through the area.

 Soul of the H'rethi: While holding the rod, you can use an action to expend 3 charges to summon a sand elemental in an unoccupied space on the ground that you can see within 30 feet of you that's covered in sand. Use the statistics of an earth elemental with the following changes:

• The sand elemental can only move through areas of sandy terrain.
• The sand elemental has advantage on any ability check it makes to grapple a creature.

The elemental remains as long as you concentrate (as if concentrating on a spell), up to a maximum of 1 hour, and disappears early if it drops to 0 hit points. It is friendly to you and your companions for the duration. Roll initiative for the elemental, which has its own turns. it obeys any verbal commands that you issue to it (no action required). If you don't issue any commands to the elemental, it defends itself from hostil creatures but otherwise takes no actions.

Attunement: Spellcaster
Rarity: Legendary
Type: Staff
Cost: ???

Griffons Saddlebag, Vol II