Peppery Boots
Description: Sturdy but unremarkable hiking boots, comfortable, warm, and dry. They radiate an odd aura of conjuration magic whose precise nature becomes clear with more potent investigative spells.
Powers: While wearing the Peppery Boots you leave behind a dusting of strong pepper everywhere you go. This makes you impossible to track by scent, although it does nothing to conceal or disguise your footprints themselves. You're much less likely to be stalked by wild animals, and if you need to spice up a bland meal you just need to stamp your feet a few times.
The pepper produced by these boots lasts until the next dawn and then dissolves back into raw magic. You could run a con as a spice-seller or somesuch with them, but you'd better be ready to get out of town quickly.
Possible Origins: These were (and are) made by hedge wizards and petty wise folk in villages throughout the lands, and are popular with hunters and even more so, with poachers. Some city thieves and adventurers find uses for Peppery Boots as well.
Complications: Housekeepers hate these things and the people who wear them. Pepper everywhere!
You're also unlikely to be tracked down and rescued if you become injured or lost in the wilderness, but how likely was that anyway?
Design Commentary: Yet another rescue from an old post. A minor little magic, but it has uses. Some of them aren't even illegal.
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