Muleback Cords +3

Muleback Cords +3

CL 13 Shoulders Slot Item • Moderate Necromancy

Cost: 22,750 gp

Weight: 10 lbs.

Family: Muleback Cords

Muleback Cords are a length of cordage which simple, hardworking folks will tie, wrap, and wind in a reinforcing loop around their shoulders and upper back. These cords have the mundane function of holding back your shoulders, allowing you to carry, lift, and move heavier burdens without hurting yourself.

Magical versions of these humble lengths of cord, like most magical versions of simple things, can come in a ridiculous array of versions. Delicate silken twine, no-nonsense hemp rope, or huge bulging ropes of strange magical fibers, all can be muleback cords. These cords can be plain rope, or wildly decorated, with exotic materials like peacock feathers, roc down, truemetal wires, embedded lumps of coal or jet, silverstones, blocks of dural, or even gemstones nestled into the gaps between the strands.

All of these fancy or plain versions all perform the same actions, namely, they infuse the wearer with a deep, tireless well of power.

Muleback cords don't make your actions any more forceful or damaging in most circumstances. The explosive force needed to inflict injury with conventional weaponry is not what cords impart. Muleback cords infuse the wearer with a deeper, broader sort of power, the sort of steady, relentless might that allows you to carry massive burdens all day, that allows you to take up a pick and shovel and dig a hole straight through a mountain range, the sort of unflinching might that allows you to drag a bridge off its foundations in the middle of a hurricane.

Even at this, the humble muleback cords are not the be-all and end-all of might. If you want to be able to carry around castles on your back, you need to look at Brobdingnagian Armor. But muleback cords will stack with all other sources of additional carrying capacity, and the steady, driving quality of the strength derived from the cords are nearly unique.

A set of Muleback Cords +3 enhances the wearer's strength, in a slow, unstoppable manner. This well of dark strength is untiring, and grants the attuned wearer the following benefits:

• Their Light Load increases by 300 pounds, with commensurate increases to their Medium (double), Heavy (triple), and Drag (times fifteen) capacities.
• Adds a +3 Enhancement bonus to all Might skill checks, including all associated Combat Maneuvers.
• Adds +13 points of bonus damage to all successful Might-based combat maneuvers. The damage type is the same as the weapon used for the combat maneuver, and is added to that damage for purposes of penetrating Damage Resistance.
• Grants the Sunder Weapon Quality to any weapon proficiently wielded by an attuned wearer. Yes, this applies to your bare hands. Given time, a proficient wearer of Muleback Cords can batter down doors and walls with a little work.

The owner of this magic item must wear it continuously for 24 hours to attune it to their aura, and until that time has passed, it provides no benefits to the wearer.

Creation: Creator (Feat), Bailiwick Check (DC 36 (10 + double CL)), Pale (tier 2) remnant, An item symbolic of the enchantment, 11,375 gp (minus cost of symbolic item).