Twilevar

A twilevar is an intelligent item made of shadowstuff. The secret of twilevar creation was lost during the fall of Ilvar. Each twilevar is unique and tends to take a different form. There are only a small number of twilevars that still exist, certainly less than a dozen.

All twilevars provide a +10 enhancement bonus to Hide and a +4 deflection bonus to armor class. They also provide other abilities that depend on the individual twilevar. Their abilities increase with experience working with a particular wielder. This translates into powers being gained as the wielder’s character level increases. Perhaps the most important trait of a twilevar is its great knowledge. They are intelligent and well traveled so the amount of knowledge contained within their sentient shell is staggering. They often act as advisors, confidants, and teachers for their wielder.

Llara: Llara is a twilevar that takes the form of an amorphous, shadowy cloak. She looks like a constantly fluttering tattered black cloak. If Llara wants to hide she can hide in her wearer’s shadow.

She gives her wearer the standard twilevar abilities. In addition, Llara gives her wearer the following powers, as she gets comfortable with her wearer.

	Darkness: At 3^rd level, Llara can cast darkness (1/day), as a free action.
	Spiderclimb: At 5^th level, Llara can flow down the arms and legs of her wearer, into cracks and around hand and foot holds allowing the wearer to climb as if they have a continuous spiderclimb spell on them.
	Darksight: At 7^th level, Llara gives her wearer the darkvision (60 feet). Unlike standard darkvision it works in magical darkness.
	Tentacles: At 9^th level, Llara can reach out of her shadowy depths with four black tentacles. The tentacles have a strength equal to her wearer’s Intelligence –10 and Llara can do anything with the tentacles a person with the same Strength could do. Each tentacle has a 10-foot reach and does 1d2 points of damage on a successful hit. Each tentacle has an AC of 16, 8 hps, and DR 5/+1. If a tentacle is destroyed it cannot be reformed until the next sunset.
	Shadow Door: At 11^th level, Llara can open a door in any shadowy area that her wearer can step through to travel to another shadowy area within range. In all other respects this ability is identical to the spell dimension door. This ability is usable once per day.
	Other Traits: Llara is neutrally aligned, and has a 24 Int, 20 Wis, and a 14 Cha. She can communicate through speech or telepathy. She speaks several languages (ched, common, draconic, dwarven, elven, larlan, and undercommon) and has extensive knowledge (Knowledge (arcana) +21, Knowledge (History) +14, Knowledge (the Planes) +14) of magic, specializing in illusions and shadow magic. She will only cooperate with an arcane spell caster, preferring an illusionist to any other.