Inquisitive Goggles

Aura: Strong Divination; CL: 11th

Slot: Eyes; Price: 16,000 gp; Wgt: 1 lbs

Special Notes / Rules: Dragonmarked

Source: ECB, pg. 262

Description:

These goggles have a single Siberys dragondshard tuned to the Mark of Finding mounted in between the lenses. When worn by someone with the lesser, greater or Siberys Mark of Finding, they provide the following benefits. Unlike other dragonmarked items, these goggles do not function with only the least Mark of Finding.

First, when examining an object, the wearer can make a Perception check to assess the aura of last living creature to touch the object. The DC for this check is 15 + the number of days since the last contact occurred. If successful and the wearer personally knows the creature in question, he successfully identifies it as such. If the creature in question is someone or something he is not familiar with, a successful check gives him the creature type. Beating the DC by 10 also gets the gender and specific race or species and beating the DC by 20 grants a clear visual impression of the creature in the wearer's mind, qualifying as "a known or familiar creature". Illusion effects do not fool the this ability, but transmutation and polymorph effects do.

Second, once a target creature has been assessed, the wearer gains a +5 insight bonus on Survival and Perception checks concerning the target creature and if the wearer has the Locate Creature dragonmarked spell-like ability and uses it on an area where the targeted creature has been in the last 24 hours, the goggles allow the wearer to follow the target creature's path, even if the creature is not in the area of effect of the Locate Creature spell-like ability. Teleportation and extradimensional movement breaks this trail.

Lastly, the wearer gets a +2 insight bonus to all Sense Motive checks while wearing the goggles. These benefits do not apply to any source of Locate Creature effects, only the dragonmarked spell-like abilities.

Construction Requirements: Craft Wondrous Item, Find the Path, creator must have the Mark of Finding.

Construction Cost: 6,400 gp; A Siberys dragonshard worth at least 1,600 gp.