Attributes

Cursed, Evil

Transmogrifies the wearer into an eagle hybrid.

Grants the wearer: Fly, Guardian of Nature, Resistance to Ice, Immunity to Thunder Damage, Immunity to Lightning Damage

Lore

Many have heard tales of King Periphas of Attica. Like all myths, they hold some truth to them, but the truth has been distorted over the centuries. Here, I will tell you the true tale of King Periphas.  Periphas was a good, just, and pious ruler. His judgements were always fair and he made many sacrifices to Apollo. None criticized him and his leadership was accepted by all. 

Because of the pre-eminence of his many good works, his subjects set up sanctuaries and temples for him. They even went as far as to call him the Saviour, the Overseer, and the Gracious. These acts angered Zeus, who felt that these honors were due to him alone, and certainly not to a mortal. Zeus decided to make an example of Periphas by incinerating his entire household with a thunderbolt. The well-known story claims that Apollo, who had been assiduously honored by Periphas, asked Zeus to spare Periphas’ life and give him a lesser punishment. The tale claims that Zeus honored Apollo’s request, and showed mercy by transforming the King into an eagle. This story, however, is untrue, having been changed by Zeus’ devoted to whitewash his true nature. 

Shortly before Zeus arrived at the house of Periphas, the King heard a sound outside his private chambers and went to investigate. As he walked to the entrance, he suddenly slipped and fell. Periphas looked at his feet and saw that he had stepped on a small glowing object. Periphas picked up the object and examined it. It was a pendant shaped like a hybrid of a man and an eagle clutching a dark pearl. Something called out to the King to wear the pendant. Whether it was a real voice or imagined, he knew not. He wore the pendant around his neck and suddenly his body began to contort. The King cried out in pain as wings sprouted from his shoulders. His cries turned into caws as his tongue morphed and a hard beak pushed its way out of his face where his mouth and nose had once been. The King fell to the ground for a few moments, unsure of what had happened. He looked at what had once been his hands and saw his skin had been replaced by feathers. At this moment, Zeus arrived over Periphas’ home. Zeus threw a single thunderbolt at the house, obliterating it and killing all those inside except for Periphas, who remained unscathed despite being trapped beneath the rubble. Some hours after the house was obliterated, many bystanders witnessed a half-man, half-eagle emerge from the rubble. He looked over his subjects and then soared off towards the mountains. 

Some say Apollo bade Hermes to deliver the pendant to Periphas before Zeus could arrive. Others speculate that it was placed there by a more malevolent entity who wished to undermine Zeus.