Heartless Cage Pendant

Alter: This metal ribcage pendant has 12 pairs of ribs that contain a single, roughly hewn ruby that rattles around inside. The pendant has 1d4+8 charges when found. When a charge is expended, a pair of the pendant's ribs magically rust.

While wearing this amulet, you can use your reaction to expend 1 charge when a hostile creature you can see within 30 feet of you is reduced to 0 hit points, causing the target to immediately die before any magical effects or traits can either restore it to life or prevent it from falling to 0 hit points. When you do, you gain 2d6+25 temporary hti points, and that creature can't be restored to life by any spell 5th level or lower. A creature is immune to this effect if it has legendary actions. When you expend the pendant's last charge, the ribcage shatters and releases the ruby inside. When it does, the ruby crackles with necrotic energy and summons 12 skeletons that appear in unoccupied spaces that you can see within 60 feet of you. The summoned skeletons are friendly to you and your companions. Roll initiative for the summoned creatures as a group, which have their own turns. They obey any verbal commands that you issue to them (no action required). If you don't issue commands to them, they defend themselves from hostile cretures, but otherwise take no actions. The DM has the skeleton's statistics.

A skeleton disenchants when it drops to 0 hit points or after 24 hours.

One the ribcage shatters and the ruby summons the skeletons, the pendant and gemstone crumble into ashes and are destroyed.

Attunement: Yes
Rarity: Very Rare
Type: Amulet
Cost: 21600gp

Griffons Saddlebag, Vol II