Liquid Fire Cabochon
Aspect: Fire Rating: ••• Manse: Tower of Molten Light (Port Cain Prefecture, Blessed Isle). Bearer: ? Source: Aspect Book: Fire, p. 78, also mentioned in Oadenol’s Codex pp.101.
This Hearthstone takes the shape of an unfaceted crimson oval. The Liquid Fire Cabochon is unpopular despite its power because of the sometimes unpredictable and destructive effects it brings about.
The liquid fire cabochon causes its wearer’s bodily fluids to ignite and blaze intensely upon leaving the wearer’s person. Blood, tears, urine, semen and sweat all erupt into a white blaze like burning phosphorus upon leaving the wearer. A single tear will deliver one level of bashing damage to anyone it falls on, a wad of spit will inflict one level of lethal (or easily ignite flammable objects such as wood or cloth), while a significant gout of blood will inflict up to six levels of lethal damage. Pissing on the side of a wooden hut will send the edifice up in flames. This Hearthstone can provide a powerful disincentive to those attacking the character with melee weapons. In addition, anyone drinking the wearer’s blood (an Abyssal consuming Essence, a Lunar wanting heart’s blood and the like) will take the full six lethal health levels of damage each turn she persists in consuming the target’s blood. In combat, assume that attackers take one level of lethal damage for every three levels they inflict on the wearer with edged weapons. Powerful Charms that allow the user to avoid unsensed attacks allow the attacker to avoid sprays of blood, but the effect must activate separately each time the possessor of the Hearthstone is injured.
The flammability of the bearer’s bodily fluids is not controlled.. it is constant. Sweaty clothing bursts into flames and going to the bathroom becomes an exercise in pyrotechnics… the hazards of certain other body fluids do not bear thinking about. Worst of all, the Cabochon does not give its owner any special resistance to fire.
