# Quilt of Many Squares
*Wondrous Item, Requires Attunement*
A patchwork quilt sewn from scraps of magical fabric -- remnants of cloaks, capes, cloth armor, and other enchanted textiles gathered across a lifetime of adventure. Though each scrap is a fraction of what it once was, a skilled hand can coax the memory of magic back into the stitching. The quilt is never truly finished.
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**A Note on Torn Magic.**
Magic does not wholly abandon fabric when it is cut or torn. It lingers in the weave, diminished and dormant, waiting for a careful hand to wake it.
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## Adding Patches
Between adventures, the attuned creature may sew a new patch into the quilt as a downtime activity requiring one full workday. The source material must be a scrap of fabric that once held magical properties -- remnants of destroyed, spent, or otherwise defunct magic items are suitable; scraps cut from functioning items are not.
The DM determines whether a given scrap retains enough magic to function as a patch, and how many patches the quilt can hold before it becomes too saturated to accept more. As a guideline, a quilt rarely holds more patches than its maker has character levels, and never fewer than 5.
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## Passive Patches
Some patches hum quietly at all times while the quilt is worn and attuned. A patch is passive if its source effect required no action to activate -- protection, warmth, subtle warding, and similar properties typically fall into this category. Passive patches provide a diminished version of their original effect, as determined by the DM.
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## Active Patches
Some patches must be deliberately invoked. As a bonus action, the attuned creature may activate up to **3 patches** simultaneously by touching each one. An active patch produces a diminished version of its original effect, as determined by the DM, centered on or limited to the patch itself unless the DM rules otherwise.
Active patches remain active until the creature dismisses them (no action required), until the creature is no longer attuned to the quilt, or until the start of the creature's next long rest.
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## Diminished Effects
No patch replicates its source in full. As a general principle, effects that once applied to a creature or a wide area now apply only to the patch itself or a small radius around it (typically no more than 5 feet). Duration, range, and potency are reduced at DM discretion. The DM is encouraged to lean into the absurdity where it arises -- a patch of a Cloak of Billowing billows only slightly. A patch of a Cloak of Invisibility is a small area of invisibility. A patch that once shed light sheds just a little light.
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*Attunement to this item requires the creature to have sewn at least one patch into it themselves.*
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