Item:Twisted icethorn wand capped with a cloud turquoise

twisted icethorn wand capped with a cloud turquoise
Look:	Tiny crystalline icicles glistening against the finely grained, snow-white wood cast refractions of light that highlight white marbling upon the sky-blue stone at its apex.
Weight:	5 stones
Metal:	No
Appraised Cost:	275000 Kronars220,000 Lirums <br />198,440 Dokoras <br />275 LTBpoints <br />275 Tickets <br />275 Scrips <br />
Properties:	This is an item. This holds the Rising Mists spell.
Dimensions:	1 length x 1 width x 1 height
Sources:	Source is Drathrok's Duskruin 448/End Loot, Drathrok's Duskruin 446/Drathrok's Assemblage, Drathrok's Duskruin 442/Drathrok's Assemblage

STUDY

You recognize that the wand is a spellcasting device. The wand will produce a magical effect under its own power if properly triggered, leaving your own talent out of the equation. Tales of humble heroes producing spectacular magic because of a trinket find their anchor in reality here. There are few limits on the size or shape of spellcasting devices. Wands, rattles, staves and charms are common, but masterful enchanters have used pebbles or even dried flowers as the device's physical vessel. Most spellcasting devices contain a core of specially treated cambrinth to house the enchantment's charge, but a free-standing charge -- magical energy that simply hangs within its spell pattern -- is possible, at the cost of longevity.

While the wand takes no spellcasting skill to work, invoking it is not effortless. Spellcasting devices require, at the very least, elaborate gesturing to function (a safety mechanism). Complex magic requires suitably complex preparations, often related to the realm of magic being used. It is not rare for a device to be keyed to the invoker's pulse, emotional state, bodily stance, surface thoughts or even prayfulness. The mixture of knowledge and discipline required to invoke these devices off hand demands practice.

You figure the simplest way to describe how to trigger it is "pointing it at your target, shaking it at your target, waving it at your target or invoking it."