Serpentine OwlLevel 17 Uncommon

This serpentine statuette can serve as a messenger, guide, or guardian, depending on the command you give it.

Wondrous Item        65,000 gp

Power (Conjuration) ✦ Daily (Standard Action)

Use this figurine to conjure a giant owl with green and brown feathers (see below for statistics). As a free action, you can spend a healing surge when activating this item to give the creature temporary hit points equal to your healing surge value.

Power (Conjuration) ✦ Daily (Standard Action)

Use this figurine to conjure a Tiny owl that behaves as if you had performed the Animal Messenger ritual or the Animal Friendship ritual chosen at the time when you use this power. You do not expend components for these rituals. When you next take an extended rest or when the effect of either ritual ends, the serpentine owl returns to you in its normal statuette form.

Power ✦ At-Will (Standard Action)

The serpentine owl regains the use of its swooping claws power.

Serpentine Owl
Medium natural animate

Initiative as conjurer        Senses Perception +20; Darkvision
HP 22; Bloodied 11
AC 28; Fortitude 26, Reflex 27, Will 28
Speed 4, fly 8

⚔ Claws (standard, at-will)

+15 vs AC; 2d6+5 damage.

⚔ Swooping Claws (standard, encounter)

The serpentine owl flies 8 squares and makes a claws attack at any one point during its movement. The owl does not provoke opportunity attacks from the target of this attack when moving. If the serpentine owl hits a Medium or smaller target with this attack, the target falls prone

Combat Advantage

The owl's claws attack deals 1d6 extra damage against any target granting combat advantage to it.

Owl's Boon

The conjurer gains darkvision as long as it remains within 5 squares of the serpentine owl.

Alignment Unaligned        Languages telepathy 10
Skills Stealth +19
Str 21 (+13)      Dex 23 (+14)      Wis 24 (+15)
Con 16 (+11)      Int 4 (+5)      Cha 10 (+8)

Description: Many believe that explorers fashioned these owls to serve as companions and scouts for the first elves who traveled the world. The explorers used them to scout for suitable sites in which the elves could establish new communities beyond their native plane. Adventurers have recovered many serpentine owls and other figurines from these ruins, suggesting the complete collection owes its existence to these earliest mages and mystics.

Published in Dragon Magazine 384, page(s) 23.