Enc.:	IS:	-	Aura:	GP: 40k
Artifacts & Relics	-	<8Magic Items8>	-	DMG

The high priestess Johydee supposedly tricked the
powers of evil into making this strange artifact and then wisely used it to
overthrow their hold upon her nation. The Mask completely covers the
wearer's face and enables him or her to assume the likeness of any human or human-like creature.
It also prevents all forms of mind contact, detection or attack.
Johydee's Mask is rumored to give the wearer total immunity to all gaze attacks (basilisk, catoblepas, medusa, etc.) and the
following powers/effects:
 

2 x I	*	*
1 x II	**
1 x VI	*******

Dispel Confusion +
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Notes:

Author:

Barrataria wrote:
Sir: I was reading the DMG the other night and noticed in the description of this item that it was "made by Xagy and "Joramy 17 centuries ago". Was there some real-life object or gift that inspired this item? Or was it just a case of needing some names to fill out the stories? Same question re Recorder of Ye'Cind and Johydee's Mask...

Have a nice weekend and thanks in advance. Too bad you couldn't come out to watch the Bears pound the Raiders last week... twas a very nice day in these parts.

BB

Nothing special in regards those names. Just an author using an opportunity to slip in some references to his family.

The nightengale was inspired by a fairy tale I happened to enjoy as a youngster...but darned if I can recall much about it now after all these years.
At the time I wrote about the magical device my daughter Elise was age 17, and now her oldest son is well past that age 

Cheerio,
Gary