Price (Item Level): 6,165 gp (10th)
Body Slot: — (held)
Caster Level: 10th
Aura: Moderate; (DC 20) abjuration and transmutation
Activation: — and swift (command)
Weight: 6 lb.
This buckler is fashioned from silver-plated steel and has a shen lung dragon scale embedded in its center.
A kodate of the spirit dragon functions as a +1 buckler, and its owner can speak and understand the Spirit Tongue. These are continuous effects that require no activation.
Twice per day as a swift action, the bearer of this kodate can become ethereal for 1 round, similar to the ethereal jaunt spell.
When first held, the buckler telepathically instructs the owner (simultaneously in the Spirit Tongue and Draconic) on the effects of the item and how to activate it.
This item is a dweomered dragon scale.
Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, ethereal jaunt, tongues.
Cost to Create: 3,165 gp, 240 XP, 6 days.
Source: Dragon Magic, page 102.