Bottle of the BoundSource Ultimate Equipment pg. 335, Advanced Player's Guide pg. 316, Artifacts and Legends pg. 16
Aura strong abjuration CL 20th
Slot none; Price —; Weight 4 lbs.DescriptionThe Bottle of the Bound is an ancient brass bottle with
a narrow neck and a rounded belly, slightly flattened on
the bottom so it stands upright when resting on a table.
The bottle’s tight-fitting stopper is engraved with sigils
of binding and sealed with lead. Legends say a wizard of
tremendous power and wisdom enchanted a fiendish army
and trapped it within the bottle for all time. The Legion
of the Bound may be called forth from the bottle by its
wielder and forced to serve, as they were once commanded
to build a fantastic ancient city, long since buried beneath
the dust of the ages. But the bottle endures, its inhabitants
still bound.
A would-be wielder of the Bottle of the Bound must know
three secret commands: the Word of Opening, to unseal the
bottle so the stopper can be removed; the Word of Binding,
to call forth and command its denizens; and the Word of
Banishment, to return the Bound Ones to the bottle. A holder
who knows the words may use the bottle like a summon
monster IX spell at will, except only creatures of the evil
subtype can be summoned. The summoned creatures remain
until the sun next rises or sets, and no new creatures can
be summoned from the bottle until the initial summoned
creatures’ destruction or return.
No known force can open the bottle without the Word of
Opening. If the bottle is opened without the use of the Word
of Binding, its 666 inhabitants are freed, one each minute
starting from 1st-level creatures and moving on to higherlevel
ones, until they all escape. If one of the Bound is called
forth and commanded without the Word of Banishment being
uttered, it is free after it performs the task for which it was
summoned. The Words to use the Bottle of the Bound have
been lost for uncounted years, although some sages believe
they know at least one or two of them.DestructionThe Bottle of the Bound can be destroyed only if every creature
bound within is slain or banished, and the empty container is
then smashed with a holy weapon.
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