Raven's Beak¶
"I sense you struggle with choices. May the Raven's Beak guide you." — High Priestess Caolynni to Zygzil (S057)
The Raven's Beak is an enchanted dagger given by the High Priestess Caolynni at the Shrine of Caerylas to the kobold Zygzil, one of the Proturan party sworn to guard the Seed of Caerylas. It harms only the enemies of life, and it is bound to ravens.
Nature¶
Caolynni describes it as "an enchanted Dagger which will only harm enemies of life. It can also detect them, when looking at a target" (S057; also S054, S055, S056). Thrown, "it calls out to its bearer .. who can choose to have it return to them as a raven OR have the bearer turn into a flock of ravens and fly to the location". It burns the undead with radiant light and the living with necrotic harm, and once in a fight "a flock of ravens intercepts the attack" made against its bearer (S059).
The raven ties it to the clergy of Arya whom Caolynni served; her daughter Inwe was High Priestess of the Raven Keepers (S053).
Holder¶
Zygzil asked nothing clear of the "Keeper of Life", and was given the dagger with the charge: "Zygzil, I ask that you defend the Seed of Caerylas and its bearer, and destroy those who seek to harm them." (S057). What Zygzil did with it is told in the Proturan Campaign chronicle.
Earlier accounts¶
The item notes of Sessions 28 and 29 have the ravens block the blow outright (S056, S057); Session 30's notes have them absorb half of it (S059).
Gap
No source says who made the Raven's Beak or how Caolynni came by it.