These gauntlets appear pitted and decayed, although closer inspection reveals them to be sound. Each is set with small amber crystals that rest on the tops of the knuckles.

Once per day, gauntlets of mindfire can be activated to project a 15-foot cone-shaped burst of mental sickness. A successful DC 14 Fortitude save negates the effect.
Any creature that fails its saving throw contracts a virulent form of mindfire. A victim can be infected only once; subsequent uses of this item on an infected target produce no further effect.
Mindfire has no incubation period—a victim immediately takes 1d4 points of Intelligence damage. Each day thereafter, a victim must succeed on a DC 14 Fortitude save or take another 1d4 points of Intelligence damage. If a victim succeeds on its Fortitude save two days in a row, it fights off the disease and takes no more damage.

Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, mind poison (SC 141) or mindfire (CP 93).
Cost to Create: 5,500 gp, 440 XP, 11 days.