Instrument

Legendary Trial of the Broken Chorus

Song of Solace:

While playing the harp as an action, you may choose up to six creatures within 60 feet. Those creatures regain 2d8 hit points and may immediately end one effect causing them to be charmed, frightened, or emotionally distressed by magic. You may use this property three times per long rest.  

Melody of Truth:

Creatures of your choice within 30 feet who can hear the harp have disadvantage on Deception checks and saving throws against effects that would conceal their true emotions. Invisible emotional barriers, illusions of feeling, and magically suppressed memories begin to crack beneath the music.  

Harmonic Bond:

As a bonus action, you may link yourself to up to three willing creatures who can hear the harp for 1 minute. While linked, those creatures gain advantage on Wisdom saving throws and may add 1d6 to attack rolls, ability checks, or saving throws once per turn as long as they remain within 30 feet of one another.  

Broken Chorus:

As an action, you may strike a sharp dissonant chord. Hostile creatures of your choice within 60 feet must make a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, they take 4d8 psychic damage and have disadvantage on attack rolls until the end of their next turn, overcome by sorrow, regret, or emotional revelation. On a successful save, they take half damage and suffer no other effect.  

Echo of Understanding:

If two creatures who are hostile to one another both hear the harp for at least 1 minute, you may force them to each make a DC 18 Charisma saving throw. On a failure, they are unable to willingly attack each other for 1 round and are flooded with understanding of one another’s pain, motives, or grief.  

Enhanced Properties (Post-Attunement)

  When attuned, The Heartstring Harp reveals its full power, allowing its bearer to wield harmony as both sanctuary and revelation.  

Voice of the Songmother:

Your healing spells and bardic inspiration dice are maximized when cast or granted through musical performance using the harp.  

Final Harmony:

Creatures of your choice within 60 feet who can hear the harp gain immunity to being charmed, frightened, or magically driven into hatred or despair.  

Resonance of Reunion:

Once per short rest, you may play a melody that restores severed emotional bonds. Up to six creatures of your choice within 60 feet immediately end one curse, magical compulsion, or emotional affliction tied to hatred, guilt, grief, fear, or division.  

The Open Chorus:

Whenever you cast a spell that restores hit points or removes a condition, you may cause a second creature within 30 feet of the original target to regain hit points equal to half the amount restored.  

Special Ability: Symphony of Open Hearts

Once per long rest, you may invoke Aeloria’s full blessing and perform the Symphony of Open Hearts. As an action, you begin a divine song that lasts for 1 minute and fills a 120-foot radius centered on you.   While the symphony continues:  

• Allies of your choice regain 4d8 hit points at the start of each of their turns.

• Allies have advantage on all saving throws and are immune to fear, charm, and despair.

• Hostile creatures who begin their turn in the area must make a DC 22 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, they are overwhelmed by truth and emotion, becoming unable to take hostile actions until the start of their next turn. On a successful save, they may act normally but have disadvantage on attack rolls for that turn.

• Illusions, magical silence, and enchantments rooted in deception or hatred are immediately suppressed while within the area.

• If two willing creatures reconcile, forgive one another, or speak a heartfelt truth during the symphony, both are cured of all curses, diseases, and poisons.

• The music is said to sound different to every listener—like grief made bearable, joy remembered, and forgiveness finally spoken aloud.

The Heartstring Harp is a divine instrument of luminous silver-gold wood and crystal resonance, its strings spun from living threads of celestial harmony. No matter who plucks them, each note carries impossible emotional depth, as though the harp is not merely being played, but listening in return. Songs performed upon it can soothe rage, draw hidden grief to the surface, mend wounded hearts, and restore harmony where bitterness once ruled. Created by Aeloria, the Songmother, this artifact embodies the truth that music is not simply heard—it is felt, shared, and capable of healing even the deepest fractures of the soul.