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Truelight lantern

(Magic Item Compendium, page 190)

Price (Item Level): 36,000 gp (17th)
Body Slot: — (held)
Caster Level: 11th
Aura: Moderate; (DC 20) divination
Activation: — and standard (command)
Weight: 3 lb.

This lantern is elaborately crafted from flame-touched iron, burnished to a silvery hue. A continuous, translucent white flame flickers within, though it sheds no heat.

A truelight lantern continually emanates bright light as a continual flame spell. Its true power can be activated by speaking the word “reveal” in Celestial. Once it is activated, a truelight lantern provides bright illumination in a 60-foot cone and shadowy illumination for another 60 feet beyond that. Everything within the 60-foot cone of bright illumination can be seen as if all viewers were under the effect of a true seeing spell. This effect lasts for 10 minutes.
A truelight lantern can normally be activated once per day, but can be activated additional times if a true seeing spell is cast into it (overriding the normal targeting restriction of the spell). Each casting of true seeing allows a lantern to be activated one more time per day.

Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, true seeing.
Cost to Create: 18,000 gp, 1440 XP, 36 days.