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Anti-Dragon Umbrella
wondrous item, very rare
This oversized steel umbrella is reinforced with adamantine ribs, dragonbone supports, and far more engineering than any umbrella should contain.
Breath Deflection
While holding the umbrella, you can use your reaction when you would be subjected to a breath weapon or a spell or effect that creates a line or cone area of effect.When you do, you open the umbrella and create a 15-foot cone of protective coverage originating from you. Creatures of your choice within the cone gain resistance to the triggering damage type against that effect, including against any associated damage from the same use of the effect.
Once this property has been used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Lore
Cassiodora Inayaris Pompellini Xifilius never claimed to dislike dragons, but her workshop journals suggest a consistent pattern of frustration following “large-scale airborne incidents involving excessive heat and poor manners.” The Anti-Dragon Umbrella was born during the aftermath of one such incident, in which a minor chromatic wyrm mistook a civic inspection for a personal insult and proceeded to demonstrate several inappropriate uses of breath weaponry over three city blocks.
Cass’s initial response was not fear, but analysis. Her notes describe breath weapons not as acts of destruction, but as “directionally enthusiastic environmental events,” which she believed could be redirected with sufficient architectural optimism. The first prototypes were literal umbrellas strapped to shields, then umbrellas mounted on staves, then umbrellas so large they required their own cart and a dedicated attendant to operate. Several assistants resigned during this phase, citing “reasonable concern about being turned into conceptual ash.”The final design condensed this absurd progression into a single reinforced canopy of adamantine and dragonbone. When deployed, the umbrella does not simply block incoming force, it reshapes the immediate space of danger into a controlled arc of deflection. Early testers reported that standing beneath it felt like being briefly excused from the laws of consequence, as though the world had politely agreed to aim elsewhere for a moment.
Despite its name, Cass intended the device for far more than dragons. Field revisions show repeated annotations expanding its utility against “any situation where geometry becomes hostile,” including spellfire, planar fissures, and what she cryptically labeled as “overenthusiastic arcane enthusiasm.” The umbrella’s final enchantment reflects this philosophy, treating all such effects as variations of the same fundamental problem: something large and violent is coming toward you, and it would be preferable if it did not.
The item’s most famous recorded use occurred during a diplomatic summit that nearly ended in catastrophe when three separate spellcasters attempted to assert dominance simultaneously. A single activation of the umbrella caused all three effects to curve harmlessly into the sky, leading one witness to describe the moment as “the only peaceful argument about power I have ever seen.” Cass later noted in the margin of the report, “Success is when violence briefly forgets your address.”
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