- An emperor's tea set that transforms into porcelain swans
- Arachnid woven tapestry, bulky, but eye-wateringly sublime
- Stack of golden arm rings forged from the war trophies of conquering lord
- Elegant carriage dubbed the silver phantom, it once propelled itself but no longer
- A river spirit trapped within a jeweled goblet, water cannot touch you
- Twin rings of beetle-esq design, whisper a message to it and it will fly away to find its partner
- Powdered quadracorn horn from the farthest burning savannas, cures impotency
- Immaculate suit of bone armour, parasitically fuels itself off the weavers lifeblood
- Packages of excellent, smooth, fine smelling soap
- Gem studded broad-belt of office stolen from some petty prince
- Skeleton warrior seeds, in neat little pouch
- Cultiver of a rare singing orchid, its melodies open the hearts of all present
- Careful forgeries of the Somnambulist Padishah’s official seals
- Egg sacks of the Century-Worm, a delicacy, a cure-all, a poison
- Panacea potion, healing, heartening, ever so addictive, red stained lips and little vials
- Gilded sub-machine guns, masterworks of Van Ranj the genius gunsmith
- Coins sewn together into an armoured shirt, proof of the owners mercantile prowess
- Fossilized trilobites made potent good luck charms
- Glowing greenish radioactive glassware, it's all the rage right now
- Powdered god-corpse brain matter to fuel sorcerous magics
- Seven salts distilled from the soul’s base chemicals to invigour
- Cheaply bound pamphlets detailing obscure and somewhat useless martial arts
- Lifetime membership pass for the League of Fisticuffs, the name is someone else's
- Coat of dogs-wool that grants sure friendship with any canine beast
- Gold & silver plate bound in enchanted twine
- Treatise on astral fauna, rare, damaged by the gut of the creature it was pulled from
- Key to a door you never knew needed unlocking
- Portrait of a long lost duke, handsome, oddly melancholic
- Apotropaic lamp made in the grand necropolis to ward off unruly spirits
- Helm wired with cables and tubes, it grants extension of the mind and will
- Pocket watch set to tell the time on a dozen different spheres
- Simple pieces of chalk, anything drawn comes alive in chalk form
- Blade of the pontiff-executioner, it will only bite the neck of a rightfully condemned priest
- Letters of free passage writ all githyanki held dominions
- Antique furnitures, thirteenth solar empire, polished mahogany, delicate joinery
- Cask of mulled devil’s liquor, it eats at the seals, smelling of motor oil and cinnamon
- Charts of the Astral inscribed on decaying papyrus, speaks in terms of dreams and allegory
- A crop of wizard lettuce, growing improbably in mouldering crate
- Iron sarcophagus bound in chains, a captured devil with an enormous bounty upon its head
- Bezoar extracted from a kamadan, compressed dreams and nightmares
- Writhing baby astral eel trapped inside a glass and bone containment jar
- Exotic dyes, colors like none you’ve seen, in carefully labeled bottles
- Contraband souls hidden inside amphora, packed tightly, miserably, and diluted
- A godly fetus hovering in an metaphysical womb, minor miracles flow off it like mist
- Ice packed, insulated box of rare thalassic trench-squid, succulent beyond belief
- The precise measurements of all a sphere neatly jotted down in a little notebook
- Fashionable nudibranchs meant to be worn upon your clothes or doted upon as a pet
- Yards long necklace-shawl of lustrous pearls, each one representing the owners virtuous deeds
- Driftwood mask carved into a shark’s snarl that fills the viewer with instinctual unease
- Crown of delicately smithed gold shaped into flowers, thorns, and leaves
- An angle-knife which can cut passage between the reality’s corners
- A tube of door-paste, half used up, smear it upon a wall to create temporary passage
- Chirurgeon’s lacquered wood box, filled with delicate steel and silver instruments
- Serpentine golden torcs that seem to writhe when worn
- Manticore balm, rub to cure aches and pains of the joints and to relieve cursed hungers
- Humorous engravings of a political nature likely to see imprisonment if caught with
- Cones of incense tailored to make spirits sluggish and sleepy
- Magnificently feathered and decorated hat that stuns onlookers and collides with door frames
- Sheaf of forger’s trick-paper that can be written upon twice, to show two differing things
- Midnight ink, made of pooled shadow, only harsh light can erase it
- Indecipherable twisted knot of letters peeled from the page, explodes if agitated
- Clockwork toy, a little landship that marches on twirling legs
- Smoky blue glass spectacles that shows the immaterial world of spirits
- Improbably deep wicker baskets made by hand
- Impudent machine-spirit locked inside a pyramidal prism, answers questions at a price
- Trunk of sekem, ducats, marks, and a thousand other coinage, heavy to lift, a small fortune
- Mobile throne carved with golden lion imagery, it walks about on its own plodding legs
- Ever-glowing argon lamps from the ancient paleotechnic dynasties
- Ceremonial copper-breaking club carved in the shape of a whale, symbol of authority
- Levitating prayer rug, threadbare, floats up and down at the sitter’s command
- Void crystal decanter and matching cups, rings perfect notes when struck
- Jade figurine of a curled up vampire bat, fits in palm, heals injury by leaching from another
- Set of bronze armour, bull motifs, fills wearer with bovine strength but also rage
- The dice of a notoriously lucky gambler, always rolls your way, but are not loaded in any way
- Bag of catnip-laced kibble, hot item on the black market for the cat-kings
- Flowering wooden phallus charm that imbibes great fertility into the owner
- Beautifully wrought iron sculpture of a twisting woman part-wolf
- Colossal sturgeon, packed in ice, fit for a king’s feast
- Bits of caddisfly made jewelry, encrusted tubes and shells of precious gems and gold flakes
- Jar of devilspawn stock, worth good money to a biomancer, little imps writhe vestigially
- Mottled protective suit of tardigrade-skin, incredibly resistant to the elements
- Metal turtle brazier, remove the shell to add more fuel, always burns for twice as long
- Delicate beetle shell earrings, quite dashing
- Newfangled ink-pen, easy to write with, the quill-maker guilds will flay you for having it
- A crested carnyx, relic of some ancient campaign, still stirs with the moods of battle
- Leashed baku, secretly one of the Somnambulist Padishah’s many spies
- A slumbering paleodemon locked in thrice warded stone
- Spool of soul-tether snipped off some poor astral traveller, great for sewing immaterial things
- Miniature model of a temple complete with tiny praying priests, extravagantly detailed
- Vials of anti-sun matter, shine un-radiantly with darkness
- Token of the guild of unseeming corners & assassins, good for one free assassination
- Occlusion needles, block the soul’s flow rendering limbs inert and severing spirit connections
- Paper parasol patterned with intertwined peacocks that seem to dance displaying feathers
- Portable cabinet filled with a chirurgeon’s expensive and rare medicines
- A claviger’s personal doorspace map, written in coded doubletalk within a little journal
- Sidesword of an astral pirate-queen, lucky red tassels hang from the pommel
- Shard of archaic pottery, infested with dream-plague, draws to the dreamlands of dead world
- Velvet gloves so silky soft it almost doesn’t register that your touching them
- Fulgurous powder, thrice as volatile as black, carefully corked casks, anti-spark measures
- Ghostly peppercorn, phantom cinnamon, a whole variety of spirit spices
- Drinking cup in the shape of a curling fish with gaping mouth, blue-green and gold trim
- Box of hand rolled cigars, rare out-world tobacco enjoyed by the haughtiest of connoisseurs
- Fermentation demon trapped inside a clay jar of pickles, barters to be freed
- Silver wrought fox clasp, each hair on the fur lovingly detailed
- A dram of crystallized luck, potent, warps reality round it
- Primordial sourdough starter, stolen from the vinegar knights
- Fur-coat of the rarest svelte seal, impossibly warm and soft, highly fashionable
- Cup carved from a solid emerald, decorated with elegant poetry, an emperor's prize
- Gold bars stamped with the seals of the 57th merchant house, will need to be removed
- Unguent box, paneled in ivory inlaid with precious gems, stinking ointments within
- Crooning phoenix in a brass cage, the fiery feathers it sheds fetch high prices
- Tapestry sewn from the tunics and coats of dead soldiers, a testament to battle
- Delicate lace, gloves, trim, collars, cuffs, tears all too easily
- Matching signet rings done up in gold and cinnabar, shaped like miniature knights
- Saint’s tears, bottled, wards off sin and protects from evil, reputedly
- Necromantic auto-chair, climbs about on mismatched boney legs, macabre in style
- Three ceremonial daggers in a crocodile foot sheathe, jade inlays
- Casket ringed with golden llamas and studded with rubies
- Fireproof aluminum caftan, worn in the Hells to protect from cinderstorms
- Ghost-Leopard fur mantle, intangible, half-alive, spirits shudder in its presence
- Golden ring, blossoming carnelian carved rose
- Clay figure with a disproportionate apotropaic phallus, black ink decoration
- Side-sword, the hilt carved from ivory with a conglomerate of screaming skulls
- Spiraling gold arm band in the shape of a lusty, serpentine merman
- Juvenile hate-star in a lead lined casket, souls are pulled inward by its horrid gravity
- Crate of smuggled boltlocks, the maker's marks scratched off
- Flask for capturing spirits, etched with runes, lead stopper
- A writ for dreaming within an onierocrat’s kingdom
- Polish for the nails that traps a whispered secret when painted on
- Boxed set for an obscure pen & paper game, little dice and everything
Monday, April 11, 2022
130 Weird Treasures From Across The Spheres
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Now that's a hell of a treasure list
ReplyDeleteI love the aesthetics of this! The implied world building is also very neat!
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