Rituals For Yule
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~* RITUAL FOR YULE *~
After casting the circle the Priestess should say:
"Since the beginning of time, we have gathered in this season to
celebrate the rebirth of the Sun.
On the Winter Solstice, the darkest of nights,
The Goddess becomes the Great Mother and once again
gives birth to the Sun and the new yearly cycle,
Bringing new light and hope to all on Earth.
On the longest night of winter,
and the dark night of our souls,
there springs the new spark of hope,
the Sacred Fire,
the Light of the World.
We gather tonight to await the new light.
On this night, the Maiden, who is also Mother
and Crone, prepares to welcome the Sun.
Let's now prepare to welcome the new light within."
~Invocation to the Goddess and God:
(Priest) "I light this fire in your honor Mother Goddess
You have created life from death, warmth from cold
The Sun lives once again, the time of light is waxing.
We invite you, Great Mother, to our circle
Bring us new light, the light of your glorious Son."
(Priestess light the white candle on the Yule log and say):
"I come to you as Maiden
Young and free, fresh as springtime
Yet within me a yearning stirs to create and share
and so I become...
(Light the red candle) The Mother
I bring forth the fruit of my creativity
Yet an ancient prophet once told me, as I stood with my son,
A sword shall pierce through thy own heart also
And I knew that I must become...
(Light the black candle) The Crone
The ancient wise one, Lady of Darkness
We three - in - one who brought forth that special child
as long ago, also anointed him for burial-
A bright light that grew and was sacrificed to be reborn
as a new light."
(Priest) "Ancient God of the forest, we welcome you
Return from the shadows, O Lord of Light.
The wheel has turned. We call you back to warm us.
Great God of the Sun
I welcome your return
May you shine brightly upon the Earth."
~Consecration of the Yule Log
(Priestess) "Yule is the end of the old solar year and the beginning
of the new one. Traditionally, the end of the year is a time
to look back and reflect. It is a time to look ahead
to the future, to make plans and set goals."
On your piece of paper, write something you hope to accomplish during the coming year.
WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED, ATTACH THE SLIP OF PAPER TO THE YULE LOG.
Priest picks up the chalice and says:
"We toast the new year (sprinkles wine on the log) and in token
of its promise, we consecrate this sacred wood as a focus for the
energies through which we accomplish our tasks and manifest our
desires during the coming cycle."
~All drink from the chalice.
(Priestess) "You who have died are now reborn. Lend us your light through THE WINTER MONTHS AS WE AWAIT THE SPRING.
Let us now light the Yule Log.
Once having burned with the Yule fire,
THESE CANDLES WILL CONTAIN THE LUCK OF THE LOG
throughout the coming year."
(remember to save a small piece of the log for next Yule
or save the ashes or the candles.)
~Priest and Priestess light the Yule log together.
~Closing:
(Priestess - extinguishing the God taper)
"Thank you Bright Lord
for the light you have brought to us this night
May we carry it within us throughout the coming year."
(Priest - extinguishing the Goddess taper)
"Thank you most gracious Lady
for your freshness of spirit, your nurturing care
your infinite wisdom
Live within us throughout the coming year.
So mote it be."
~Close the circle the way you usually do.~
My thanks to The White Goddess for this ritual.
~* A SOLITARY YULE INVOCATION *~
Morning light will flood the chamber
- winter solstice sun.
Energy unfolding,
Saturn's rule has just begun.
Crystals formed of ice and frost
freeze field and forest green.
While Mighty Oak and Holly
Fight for favours from our Queen.
The Great Wheel brings conception,
birth, and death as days of yore.
Each bonfire on a leyline
honours what has gone before.
Seven planets, seven spheres,
seven gates swing open.
I lift my arms and call the charge
the incantation spoken!
I conjure water spirits,
Pour forth the sacred winds
come hither, O great fire!
The magick now begins!
Solar vapors, starry heavens
clouds and earth and waves
unite in your perfection
on this shortest solstice day!
I hold the key of secrets
and the phantoms will avail
the crossroads shimmer open
as the rod connects to grail.
Seven planets, seven spheres,
seven gates swing open.
I list my arms and call the charge
the incantation spoken!
Beribboned Yule logs burning
each spark a blessing brings.
Red and green, the sacred blood
of past and future kings.
Mistletoe and bayberry,
winter's leaves and resin.
Spice and myrrh and evergreen
connect the Earth to heaven.
Through scented smoke and sacred prayer
I manifest good will.
Bring peace and joy to hearth and home
and every wish fulfill.
Seven planets, seven spheres
seven gates swing open
I lift my arms and call the charge
the incantation spoken!
Author Unknown ~
MAY THE SUN SHINE UPON YOUR LIFE~ * BLESSED YULE TO YOU * ~
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folklore, magick, religion 0 Comments »While my dedication to Hecate, I've no more top figure of my dark moons creating an altar taking part in and weather permitting, outdoors to deposit my charitable trust to her. I give birth to leeks, onion, progeny, be keen on, garlic and at epoch inhabitant plant life to place in my sacred chairs.
In the wake of my ritual featuring in the house, I give birth to her gifts out to the crossroads and deposit them offer. On special occasions I likewise do a blood acquaint with. Historically, some support of Hecate sacrificed black dogs and black bulls to her. Then again not across the board, various did for sure practice this. In the clip below Sorita D'Este union about the contrast of cost of dogs and the Idol.
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Seven Wanderers Part Two
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"A tradition is real previously it is not untutored out of books, but from the
relationships of a folk with the Sphere of the Spirits. The Stregoneria, as
it is specialized in the north of Italy, is a very sincretic and secret
tradition. No book has ever been written about it, and this may possibly never
take place in the function of who is initiated in it has to declare not to reveal the ritual
practices to someone. I devour meaningful to calm a bit about it in the function of I
traditional a lot of letters from people who confuse it with the
"stregheria" and get it airless to that mix of Wicca and at all
from C.Leland's book "The Gospel of the Witches".
The Stregoneria has been specialized in all levels of group of people, and
(until now) it has been justly vocal lore. A lot of elements deriving
from the magical practices of the Roman and Celtic homeland of
north Italy are easy to bend, although award are some ancient books on
magic (improbable in Italian completely) which after that devour had a top
choose in the continue three or four centuries.
In the Stregoneria (after that called "The ancient Art" or "the Old
Procedure") award is a intent of an omnipresent Supernatural being
(All-Consciousness) which is not awkward with humans, although It is
the all-pervading nose of all consciousness and query. Habitually this
is called Baphomet. Its emanations, which are Entities whose origin
is divine, system with self-sacrifice and the forces of key in. Commonly
they ARE the forces of key in, or highest assumed, their primary
example is in the powers of key in. If a Sorcerer is skilled,
transactions is everyday with these Entities, through the Mystery
Think, in Thoughts, or through a Psychic. It is not unorthodox to understand
these Entities as the product of the relationships of generations of
priests-sorcerers with the idiosyncratic Divine Emanations of the Supernatural being,
they ARE this idiosyncratic production integrated with the eggregore formed
by centuries of look up to and magic.
Modish are some names and attributes of these Entities:
La Dea Madre: Mother-Goddess, Solidity Herself, sometimes equitable
referred as "la Dea". She is simbolized by the Cauldron.
Lucifero: The Son of the Divinity, Lady of the Ingoing Neutral,
Dynamism of the Cross-roads, God of Supernatural, Prime minister of the
Powers of Air, the Mercury of the Alchemists, the Daybreak
Item. Bisexual space amid Gods and humans.
Sometimes called the Fiend, Lady of this Sphere.
La Dea della Luna: Mother of the Moon, Female of all Witchcraft,
Mistress of the Stars. Bisexual.
Nostra Signora delle Acque: Our Female of Waters, Sovereign of Worship.
Female of the Misteries of Resurgence.
La Santa Morte: Shortfall, Prime minister of the Cemeteries and of Funny story.
Neutral, envisioneed as a concealed carcass holding a cut.
Il Bicorne: The Horned God. Lady of the Forests and of all Natural world.
Master of the Hunt. Represents warriorship and virility. From
Him incline all staying power skills.
The Demons of the Criminal world. Long-ago Entities untutored of Set fire to,
sometimes acknowledged with out-of-date magical eggregores. The Rulers of
the Four Orders, Lords of the Powers of the Elements. Their
names are:
Auros : the East
Ignis : the South
Lagos : the West
Ursus : the North (after that Urius, or Tellus)
The Spirits of the Elements themselves are sometimes called with the
routine names of: Salamanders, Undines, Gnomes and Sylphs.
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Afternoon Roundup Feria Or Ss Chrysanthus And Daria Martyrs Or St Isidore The Farmer Confessor Usa October 25Th 2013 Propers
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Kavkaz Center Vs Royal Academy Of Sciences Or Gins Vs Aliens
magick, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, thioethers 0 Comments »The definitive article comes as a response to the meeting of the above mentioned Royal Academy of Sciences on the subject of detection of extra-terrestrial life and the consequences for science and society. The article is signed by a DEPARTMENT OF MONITORING. It sounds serious then, so take it in the same manner, meaning seriously. This is how the Department of Monitoring describes the proceedings of the meeting:
Democratic British academics proposed to create a specialized agency within the Democratic organization "United Nations" which would deal with issues related to an expected contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. It is to be noted that it is not the first time when Western "scientists" argue that human contacts with aliens is just a matter of time.Notice the judicious use of quotation marks and the word "Democratic". So, what is the pure Islamic verdict on the Democratic "scientists'" ideas? Here it comes:
We would like to point out in this connection that from the point of view of Islam, all theories of non-believers about the existence of some alien civilizations, UFOs, extraterrestrials are complete ignorance and absurdity.To prevent you from useless arguing, the Department of Monitoring found a few more minutes to outline the only true cosmology, of which I shall quote sparingly (so read the whole for enlightenment). To start with:
Islam makes it clear that living intelligent beings were created by Allah, and were reported in the Quran. There are three kinds of creatures - angels, created from light, gins, created from fire (pure flame) and humans, created from clay.I don't know about you, but to me it makes a lot of sense, besides it's much simpler than any Drake formula and stuff. Notice especially the gins:
It is well known that there are of several kinds of gins - those who can fly, those who move through the soil, and those who swim.Allah be my witness - at various times I have been bitten by flying, crawling and swimming varieties of gins, getting all kinds and degrees of allergic and other reactions to the critters' bites! For crying out loud, now it all became clear!
But what about all these encounters so richly described in many sources? Here it comes:
In contact with gins are all kinds of sorcerers, witches, healers using a so-called "energy", fortune-tellers, yogas, shamans and others. Gins are contacted by various occultists, exorcists, cabbalists, magicians, satanists, others. Some believe that musicians, singers are under the influence of gins, since music and musical instruments are "flutes of Satan". Gins can manifest themselves in different cases, and in different situations, but humans can not see their true face. It is known that gins can abduct humans. Gins can also cause diseases for humans, both physical and mental. Gin can seize a human and take his mind. However, this can only happen by the will of Allah. So there: all these stories about little green men (or big hairy ones), about abductions, anal probes, getting pregnant by an alien etc. - it's all explained, and to my total and absolute satisfaction, I have to add.
There is more, much more in that article, but I cannot dawdle - I have to alert my favorite UFOlogists. And an astronomer too now. And you all - just read that article.
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When Churches Lose Their Way
magick, religion belief, theology 0 Comments »What this means is that the new church will have its own congregation, band, campus pastor and ministries. But the main pastor back in Texas will bring the sermon each week, broadcast live via the Internet. They won't be an independent local church anymore but instead will be a part of the Texas church (this of course begs the question of what possible interest a mega-church a thousand miles and four states away could possibly have in planting a satellite campus in suburban Columbia, but we'll leave that topic for another day).
Simulcast services are the fastest growing venue for modern churches, and many congregations are finding them indispensable in reaching new people. There are several in our own state, with New Spring Church-the state's largest congregation and one of the largest in America-being the most obvious example. We do the same thing on a much smaller scale at my church, where we have a simulcast service across campus to another building that goes on at the same time as one of our main services in the worship center.
The point of my ramblings isn't this new mode of doing church. If anything is obvious by this time in American church life, it's how essential technology is in order to get the gospel across to our culture. Facebook, Twitter, television and the Internet are as necessary for today's churches as horses were to my circuit-riding forebears in the nineteenth century.
What really caught my attention was the mail-out itself, and how it interfaced with modern culture. The more I looked at it, the more I realized that as churches continue to wrestle with effective means of communicating with lost people, the more we're apt to do, well, dumb things. In today's confused and confusing environment, it's easy for churches to lose their way.
The mail-out advertised a new sermon series preached by the main pastor back in Texas. It apparently was sent out to tens of thousands homes in our area to gin up attendance for the new church's grand opening. I posted the thing at the top of the blog and, as you can tell, it's a take-off of Leonardo De Vinci's famous painting, "The Last Supper," that portrays Jesus the night before his crucifixion, gathered with his disciples for a final meal. For Christians, that supper sets the pattern for our most sacred worship event.
In the mail-out, though, it's not the twelve disciples who surround the Lord. Instead, the faces of several well-known celebrities are superimposed on the bodies of the disciples. And this is where things start to get weird.
To the left of Jesus, for instance, instead of James spreading his arms in supplication of the Lord, there's Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys NFL football team, with a stern look on his face as he plans how to make his next billion dollars. Beside him is Kim Kardashian, replacing Philip, with a vacant look on her immaculately made-up face. To her right, Labron James spins a basketball on his finger where Thomas used to sit.
Closest to Jesus, on his right side, is Ellen Degeneres instead of the beloved disciple, John. Peter has morphed into Lance Armstrong in full cycling gear. Finally, Katy Perry's smiling face with that adorable pageboy 'do sits atop Judas' shoulders (I don't know how she feels about that).
Thankfully, they didn't replace the face of Jesus with the image of the Texas pastor, although surely they must have considered it.
The title of the upcoming sermon series is "What would Jesus say to..." with the implication that the Lord would have some special message to these celebrities. I guess the thought was that in our celebrity-crazed country, non-believers would be hooked into this kind of sermon series and want to come to the new church in order to find out what Jesus would say to them, too.
Maybe they will. I guess I can see how a non-believer might just do that. And in fact, the Texas mega-church has a track record of reaching tens of thousands of people with the gospel with just this kind of approach. Maybe there's so little knowledge of the Bible today compared to so much immersion into our reality-TV-show-culture-where we have the illusion that the lives of the famous people on TV somehow have something to do with how we live-that presenting Katy Perry alongside Jesus will lead someone to trust Jesus as their Savior. Maybe.
But instead of lifting someone's attention from Kim Kardashian to Jesus, wouldn't this approach be just as likely to drive down someone's possible interest in Jesus to Kardashian's level of spiritual emptiness? I mean, the dynamic would be just as likely to work its way down as up, wouldn't it? Maybe even more so, since our neo-pagan culture has much more familiarity with Kardashian than with Jesus.
And in my middle-aged, curmudgeonly brain, I just wonder if the visual imagery of Jesus with this crowd of celebrities doesn't subtly communicate something that at best trivializes the gospel. At worst, you have to wonder if it doesn't in fact demean the Lord.
So how exactly can we in churches effectively engage the culture for the sake of the gospel without losing our way? If anything, the "What Would Jesus Say To..." sermon series at least offers the opportunity, for some of us at least, to ask ourselves some questions. I'm really not trying to focus too much on this single situation. The fact is, every pastor I know is dealing with the same, urgent situation. We all want to do whatever it takes to reach the lost people around us. So here are the questions I'm asking myself, as I reflect on "What Would Jesus Say To...":
. In our rush to be relevant to the culture, how far are we willing to go in blending cultural values with the biblical gospel?
. As the church engages the culture, where is the line that, if we cross it, we've gone too far?
. At what point does the gospel lose its distinctiveness when we try to package it so that it's more accessible to our culture?
. Does good taste matter anymore?
. Does reverence for Christian truths, symbols and figures matter anymore?
. How do we do effective evangelism in a culture so secular that it has little familiarity with biblical truth?
. In a culture that believes all truth is relative, what's the practical difference between a sermon series that asks, "What would Jesus say to..." with one that asks, "What would the Buddha say to..." or "What would Muhammad say to..."?
Nobel Prize Winner Kertesz Imre Sick And Evil
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Odinism
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Beltane May Day Activities Lore
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alt.magick, magick, staff 0 Comments »Str 12 +1 / +3 Race Human
Dex 16 +3 Alignment NG
Con 16 +3 / +5
Int 11
Wis 14 +2
Chr 12 +1
AC +3 Dex + 3 Leather + 3 shield, +1 ring = + 10
+3 Barkskin, -2 Rage = + 11
HP (45) 45 / (55) 55
Base Attack +4
Scimitar - +1/3 str + 1 mast = +6 / 8
Sling - +3 dex + 1 mast = +8
Club - +1/3 str = +5 / 7
Shillelagh - +1/3 str + 1 ench = +6 / 8
Flame Blade- +1/3 str = +5 / 7 (melee touch)
Bless +1
Movement 40 ft
Saves Base Ability Other Total
Fort +6 +3 / 5 +1 +10 / 12
Ref +1 +3 +1 +5
Will +4 +2 / 4 +1 +7 / 9
Skill points Ranks Ability Other Total
Barbarian
Ride (Large Wolverines) 5 +3 +2 +9
Druid
Animal Empathy 8 +1 +9
Concentration 8 +3 +11
Knowledge Nature 2 +2
Wilderness Lore 8 +2 +10
Handle Animal 8 +1 +2 +11
Spot +2 +2 +4
Listen +2 +2 +4
Feats
Alertness, Endurance (+4 extended time checks),
Extra rage (+2 rage/day)
Special
Nature Sense, animal companion, woodland stride, trackless step
Resist nature's lure (+4 to saves vs feys)
Rage () () ()
Duration - 8 rounds
Companion - Reason, Wolverine
HP 50 (50) / 58 (58) Rage
mv - 30ft, burrow 10 ft, climb 10 ft
AC 15 (4 nat, 2 dex, -1 size) / 13 Rage
Base Attk +3
Attks 2 claws + 9 / +11, 1 bite +1 / +2
Claw 1d4+6/8, Bite 1d6+3/4
Fort +9/11, Ref +5, Will +3
Str 22/26, Dex 14, Con 23/27, Int 3, Wis 12, Chr 10
Attack (unnatural), Accept Rider, Accept Saddle, Calm,
Come, Guard, Stay, Track
Climb +15, Listen +6, Spot +6
Rage, Scent
Collar of the North - continual endure elements (heat)
Spells 5/3/2 + 0/1/1 = 5/4/3
Animal Trick
* Create Water 2 gallons/lvl water, Close
Cure Minor Wounds 1 hp
Darkseed Slowly kills plants
** Dawn Awakens sleeping creatures 15' radius
Daze Animal Animal loses 1 action
Detect Magic detect spells, items, Close, Concen (1 min/lvl)
Detect Poison 1 creature, object, Close
Flare Close, -1 attk, 1 min
* Fire Eyes See c/o natural fire, smoke, fog 10 min/lvl
Guidance +1 to one roll, throw or check
Know Direction discern north
Light object shines like a torch
Mending minor repairs on an object
Purify Food and Drink 1 cu ft/lvl food or water
Read Magic Read scrolls, spellbooks
* Resistance +1 saving throws, 1 min
Scarecrow Animal becomes shaken
Virtue 1 tmp hp
Animal Friendship Permanent animal companions, Close
Calm Animals Calms 2d4+1/lvl HD animals, (mag) beasts, Close, 1 min/lvl Camouflage +10 Hide
Cure Light Wounds 1d8+1/lvl (max +5)
Detect Animals,Plants Long, Concentration (10 min/lvl)
Detect Snares, Pits
Endure Elements Ignore 5 dmg/rnd from 1 energy type, Touch, 24 hrs
* Entangle Plants entangle in 40 ft radius, Long, 1 min/lvl
Faerie Fire Cancels blur, concealment etc, Long, 5 ft rad, 1 min/lvl
* Goodberry 2d4 berries each cure 1 hp (max 8/24 hrs), 1 day/lvl
Hawkeye +50% range increments, +5 Spot
Invisibility to Animals 10 min/lvl, 1 creature/lvl Touch
* Magic Fang Natural weapon gets +1 attk/dmg, Touch, 1 min/lvl
Obscuring Mist no vision past 5', rng 30', 30' sprd, 20' up, 1 min/lvl Pass w/o Trace 1 subject/lvl no tracks, 10 min/lvl
Power Sight Determines creatures HD,level
Regenerate Light Wounds 1 hp/rnd, 10 rnds + 1 rnd/lvl
Sandblast Brief sandstorm
* Shillelagh Cudgel,quarterstaff -> +1 weapon, 1d10 dmg, 1 min/lvl Summon Nature's Ally 1 rnd/lvl
Wood Wose Minor nature spirit, 1 hr/lvl
Adrenaline Surge Summoned creatures +4 Str
Animal Messenger Tiny animal to specific place, Close, 1 day/lvl
Animal Reduction Animal shrinks in size
Animal Trance Fascinates 2d6 HD animals, Close, Concen
** Barkskin +3 AC natural, Touch, 10 min/lvl
Body of the Sun Fire, light extend 5' from body, 1d4+1 dmg, 1 rnd/lvl Briar Web As entangle but causes dmg
Charm Person/Animal Close, 1 hr/lvl
Chill Metal Close, 7 rnds - 0/1d4/2d4/1d4/0
Creeping Cold 1d6/rnd cold dmg, Close, 3 rnds
Decomposition Wounded creatures suffer extra 1 hp/rnd
Delay Poison No poison effects for 1 hr/lvl, Touch
Fire Trap Opened object deals 1d4+1/lvl, Permanent, 25 gp
* Flame Blade Touch attk deals 1d8+1/2 lvls, 1 min/lvl
Flaming Sphere Rolling ball of fire, 2d6 dmg, Medium, 3' rad, 1 rnd/lvl Green Blockage Wall of vegetable matter
Heat Metal Close, 7 rnds - 1: 0/2:1d4/3,4,5:2d4/6:1d4/7:0
Hold Animal Medium, 1 rnd/lvl
Lesser Restoration Dispels magic ability pen or 1d4 ability dmg
Might of the Oak +4 Str, -2 Dex 10 min/lvl
Persistence of Waves +4 Con, -2 Str 10 min/lvl
Produce Flame 1d4+1/2 lvls touch or thrown
Regenerate Mod Wounds 2 hp/rnd
Resist Elements Ignore 12 dmg/rnd 1 energy type, 1 min/lvl
Soften Earth Stone->clay, dirt->sand,mud
Speak w/ Animals 1 min/lvl
Speed of Wind +4 Dex, -2 Con
Summon Nature's Ally II 1 rnd/lvl
Summon Swarm 5' diam of creatures, 1d4 + 1/3 clvls, Close, Concen + 2 rnds Sweet Water Creates well up to 100 ft deep to water source, 10' diam, Long Tree Shape Resemble tree 1 hr/lvl
Warp Wood
Wood Shape Rearranges wooden objects
Equipment
Cost Weight Item
1000 Cloak of Resistance +1
1000 Ring of Protection +1
1160 15 Leather Armor +1 (sleep in)
1257 5 Darkwood Shield + 1, left arm
25 2 Backpack (Fire Trapped)
2 25' silk rope
Flint and Steel
Wineskin (backpack)
scroll case (belt)
90 Continual Flame on scroll case (belt)
25 Scroll of Faerie Fire (scroll case)
13 Scroll of Fire Eyes (scroll case)
2 wooden stakes (backpack)
Druidic clothing (worn)
Holly and Mistletoe
Spell Components pouch (belt)
5 5 days rations
goodberries
100 4 flasks Holy Water
300 Masterwork Sling 1d4, crit x2, 50' rng inc
7 14 bullets
325 4 Masterwork Scimitar, belt, 1d6+1/3, crit 18-20x3 :
3 Club, belt, 1d6+1/3, 10' rng inc
300 gp letter of credit
6 gp
2100 Collar of the North
Expands to fit creature. Ignore 5 dmg/rnd heat dmg.
Rmks - casts goodberry and create water daily
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