Opal Flamebrother - Medium Wondrous Item

Opal Flamebrother: This bead, about the size of a large man's thumbnail, is carved from brilliant orange opal with sparkling yellow flaws inside. It looks like a stylized flame or sunburst on casual examination. Upon close examination, it is revealed to be a flamebrother salamander rolled up in a fiery ball.

Once per day, the bead can be held between thumb and forefinger, and a command word used to activate the bead. It vanishes, leaving soot on it's invoker's fingertips. A flamebrother appears as if it had been summoned by summon monster 4, and obeys the users verbal commands regardless of which language is used. The flamebrother follows orders for seven rounds, the vanishes in a puff of smoke and the opal flamebrother bead reappears in the hand of the individual who invoked it.

If the invoker is a spellcaster, they can cast a spell on the bead, as if the bead were a target creature, in the round before they call the flamebrother. The spell remains on the flamebrother.

If the invoker of the bead has the feat Augment Summoning, the flamebrother is affected by that feat.

Moderate conjuration; CL 7th; Craft Wondrous Item, summon monster 4; Cost 10,000.

NPC Gear: 12th
Treasure Value: 13th

Math:

4*7*1800/5 for summon monster 4 once per day.