Adventurer’s Podium

Wondrous item, rare Price: 3,000-7,000 gp | medium sentimentality

This podium is an intricate pewter cauldron about 1 foot wide and 1 foot tall. You can use an action to activate the podium by throwing diamond dust worth 250 gp inside, which consumes the dust. Activating the podium causes prismatic light to erupt out of it and coalesce above it to show a three-dimensional map of the terrain up to 100 feet in all horizontal directions around the podium. The podium remains active for 1 minute and can’t be moved during that time.

Paid

Dots appear on the map showing the location of all creatures of size Small and larger within 100 feet of the cauldron. The size of the dots correlate to the size of the creatures, but the dots give no other information about the creatures. The location of the dots don’t update and remain fixed where the creatures were when the podium activated.

Overpaid

Sparkling motes appear on the map to mark the locations of secret entrances and magical wards.

Source: The Gray Merchant of Asphodel