Wondrous Item

Legendary Trial of the Unbroken Journey

Windborne Grace:

While wearing the mantle, you gain a flying speed of 40 feet and can hover. If you are not attuned, you instead descend at a slow, harmless rate and take no falling damage.  

Unseen Deflection:

When you are targeted by a ranged attack, you can use your reaction to conjure a shifting current of air around yourself, imposing disadvantage on the attack roll. You can use this ability three times per long rest.  

Gentle Current:

As a bonus action, you may summon a soft but irresistible gust that moves yourself or one willing creature you can see within 30 feet up to 20 feet without provoking opportunity attacks.  

Whispercarried Words:

As an action, you may speak a short message into the mantle. The wind carries it to a creature you know or can clearly picture, provided it is on the same plane. The message arrives as a whisper only that creature can hear.  

Breath of the Open Sky:

You have advantage on saving throws against suffocation, inhaled poisons, and effects that impede breathing. As an action, you may restore breath to a creature that is choking, drowning, or unable to breathe.  

Enhanced Properties (Post-Attunement)

Lord of Gentle Winds:

Your flying speed increases to 60 feet, and you may carry one willing creature with you while flying, provided they remain within 5 feet of you.  

Calm Beyond Force:

You are immune to being knocked prone or forcibly moved against your will by non-divine wind or weather effects. Difficult terrain caused by rubble, sand, snow, or loose earth does not slow you.  

Skyborne Passage:

Once per short rest, you may cast wind walk or transform yourself and up to six willing creatures into drifting currents of air for up to 1 hour.  

Voice Upon the Horizon:

Your Whispercarried Words ability no longer requires the target to be on the same plane if they are beneath an open sky or upon open water.  

Special Ability: Passage of the Open Sky

Once per long rest, you may invoke Achelous’s full blessing and release a vast divine current in a 120-foot radius centered on yourself.   When activated:  

• You and all allied creatures of your choice gain a flying speed of 60 feet for 1 minute.

• Allies are freed from restraints, grapples, and non-divine difficult terrain.

• Hostile creatures of your choice must succeed on a DC 22 Strength saving throw or be pushed up to 40 feet in a direction you choose and knocked prone.

• Fog, smoke, toxic gas, and storm winds within the area are immediately dispersed or calmed.

• For the duration, allied creatures have advantage on Dexterity saving throws and cannot take falling damage.

• The current appears serene rather than violent, carrying allies like feathers on a perfect wind while sweeping enemies aside with effortless force.

The Zephyrwake Mantle is a divine cloak of featherlight sky-silk, woven in pale blues, silvers, and soft whites that shift like drifting clouds. It moves in a constant unseen breeze, its flowing layers embroidered with patterns of wind currents and distant horizons, embodying Achelous’s gentle power, unseen guidance, and the quiet freedom of the open sky.