Chest of Obfuscation

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Chest of Obfuscation

Aura moderate conjuration; CL 9th
Slot —; Price 48,000 gp; Weight 85 lb.

DESCRIPTION
This large, iron-bound chest is constructed from sturdy oak and elm, measuring 30 inches high, 60 inches wide, and 20 inches deep (approximately 21 cubic feet of storage capacity). Despite its mundane appearance, it possesses a powerful extradimensional function.

When the owner speaks the chest’s command word, the entire chest (along with all contents) vanishes instantly, transported into a small, private pocket within the Ethereal Plane. While stored in this manner, the chest is inaccessible to all creatures and effects on the Material Plane.

Speaking the command word again causes the chest to reappear within 2 feet of the owner, in the nearest available space capable of supporting it. This function operates regardless of distance, provided the owner remains on the same plane as the chest’s origin.

This ability functions regardless of distance, so long as the owner is on the Material Plane. The chest’s magic specifically allows it to transit between the Material Plane and its private pocket within the Ethereal Plane.

However, the chest cannot be called to or from any other plane. If the owner is not on the Material Plane, the chest does not respond to its command word.

The chest holds breathable air when sealed. A Medium creature trapped inside has enough air to survive for approximately 70 minutes. After this time, suffocation rules apply (see Dungeon Master’s Guide).
Speaking the command word backward causes the chest to become magically locked (as arcane lock). While locked in this manner, the chest cannot be opened except by:
  • Repeating the command word backward,
  • A successful knock spell, or
  • A targeted dispel magic (caster level check DC 21).
The chest is keyed to a specific owner at creation and does not respond to command words spoken by others.

CONSTRUCTION
Requirements Craft Wondrous Item, Leomund’s Secret Chest, dimension door, arcane lock; Cost 24,000 gp + 1,920 XP

LORE

The first of these chests is said to have been commissioned by a paranoid arcanist who trusted neither vault nor servant nor spell that could be countered by mortal hands. Having once been robbed while traveling between cities, he sought a solution that would place his valuables somewhere no thief could reach, no matter how skilled or well-prepared. Drawing upon principles similar to those found in Leomund’s Secret Chest but refining them to eliminate the need for a secondary focus, he devised a singular container that could vanish entirely from the world at a word. The result was not merely a chest, but a private absence - a space defined as much by what could not reach it as by what it could hold.

Over time, the Chest of Obfuscation found favor among less scrupulous individuals. Smugglers, assassins, and certain well-dressed nobles with too many secrets began to prize its ability to make inconvenient truths simply… not present. Entire ledgers of incriminating dealings, forbidden relics, and even living cargo have been hidden within its silent extradimensional refuge. In darker circles, it is whispered that some owners deliberately leave rivals alive within the chest, sealing it and allowing time to do what blades cannot - a slow, airless erasure. The chest does not judge what it contains, nor does it remember. It simply removes.

Despite its usefulness, the chest has earned a reputation for unsettling reliability. Unlike many enchanted items, it offers no flair, no glow, no whisper of arcane presence beyond the faint tug of conjuration magic. It appears mundane - stubbornly, convincingly mundane - until the moment it is not there at all. Veteran adventurers speak of a peculiar unease when relying on it, as though placing something inside is less like storing it and more like surrendering it to a patient void. Some claim that, on rare occasions, the chest returns a fraction of a second later than expected… and that in that sliver of delay, something inside has shifted in ways no mere absence should allow.

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