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Scrivening Soul Scroll

Scroll, rare

Component: Beast pelt

A study group of time-pressed Chroniclers fashioned a means of precisely capturing a sprite's likeness during its brief bouts of visibility. Upon unveiling their invention, the creature emerged from its scroll, causing calamitous chaos at the Chroniclers' Chronoference. Luckily, the technology is somewhat more controllable these days. 

Soul Sketch. As an action while holding this scroll, you can sketch a non-Humanoid creature you can see onto it, capturing a sliver of its being as you do. The creature must have a CR no higher than 4. Once a creature has been sketched onto the scroll, another can’t be sketched onto it.

Off the Page. As an action while holding the scroll with a sketched creature on it, you can summon an imitation of that creature, which appears in an unoccupied space you can see within 60 feet of you. It uses the same stat block as the sketched creature, but can’t use any legendary actions or the Legendary Resistance trait. The creature disappears after 10 minutes or when it is reduced to 0 hit points.

The creature is an ally to you and your companions. In combat, the creature shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It obeys your verbal commands (no action required by you). If you don’t issue any, it takes the Dodge action and uses its move to avoid danger. Once this property has been used, the scroll dissipates into a swirl of magical ink and is destroyed. 

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Uncommon variant: The creature sketched must have a CR no higher than 2.

Very rare variant: The creature sketched must have a CR no higher than 6.

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