Mati Charm

PAINTED STONE WARD AGAINST EVIL SPIRITS

The mati charm is a painted stone commonly worn by woadmakers as a ward against evil spirits. Authentic mati charms are painted on riverstones recovered from the bed of the Wrigglewater that winds around the village of Bluegrove, where woadmakers convene once a year to share their blue-dyed wares. Woadprentices will often wrap a mati charm bracelet around their left wrist on their first trek into the Azulwood as protection against the willowisp spirits said to haunt the depths of the forest.

The blue circles of the mati charm are oft-times painted on the outside of woadshops or on their wooden signs. Other variations of the typical charm are the shields of the Woadhall guards, themselves modeled on the small buckler carried by Ilyria Ironbark when she faced off against the fiendish God of Hell, Ctesiphon.

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