Magic Items from the Heartlands War
Thanks to the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide, no doubt every reader will be aware of the late war which engulfed most of the nations of the Heartlands. Cormyr, Sembia, the Dalelands, and Netheril fought a bitter, bloody conflict from the Year of the Awakened Sleepers to the Great Rain of the Year of the Nether Mountain Scrolls (1484 to 1486 DR).
Vast areas of the Heartlands were laid waste; few places remained untouched. Sembia was conquered by Netheril, Cormyr was embattled on two fronts, and even Myth Drannor became involved before ultimately it was destroyed when the last remaining Netherese floating city crashed into it.
As a consequence of these military actions, new and useful magical items of equipment were developed and rushed to the front by all sides. Artificers were recruited and trained in large numbers to produce these items for the war effort, and a vast quantity of them were made relative to other magical items of interest to adventurers.
Now Aristobulus - everybody's favorite artificer! - has just arrived back in Waterdeep at the head of a heavily-defended caravan chock full of enough surplus magical gear to make the most war-hungry warrior drool onto his battle-maps.
- from the publisher's blurb