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type: item
rarity: Rare
attunement: Yes
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# Tideheart Pearl

## Description

A perfectly spherical pearl the size of a fist, shimmering with deep blue and green hues that shift like ocean currents. When held underwater, it emits a soft bioluminescent glow. Sea water within 10 feet of the pearl is always calm and clear.

## Properties

- **Aquatic Adaptation:** While attuned, you can breathe water and have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
- **Control Water (1/Day):** Cast *control water* (DC 16).
- **Tidal Ward (1/Day):** As a reaction when you would take cold or lightning damage, you gain resistance to that damage until the start of your next turn.

## Source

Retrieved from the [[Sunken Spire]] after defeating [[Mistress Veyla]] ([[Arc 2 - The Gilded War#Hook 7: The Sunken Spire|Arc 2, Hook 7]]).

## Lore

*Cult mages of the Hand of Ruin use Tideheart Pearls to command sahuagin, merrow, and other aquatic servants. Each pearl is grown inside a bound water elemental and harvested — a process that destroys the elemental. The trapped elemental's consciousness remains in the pearl, and attuned wielders sometimes hear it weeping.*