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Dark Craft Rewards
Experience points and gold pieces can be granted as rewards after a sacrifice (see the last two entries in Table 2–2, below). These so-called dark craft rewards have no actual physical manifestation, but the celebrant senses their presence like a shadow on the soul. Dark craft gold pieces and dark craft experience points can’t be used to buy goods or attain higher levels, but they can be used instead of actual gold pieces or experience points when making a magic item. Only a single application of dark craft experience points and dark craft gold pieces can be applied toward a magic item’s creation process.
The time spent creating the item does not change when the celebrant uses dark craft resources. When the celebrant completes a magic item created by the use of any dark craft resources (as little as 1 gp or 1 XP), the item is tainted with evil. Others can sense this evil, as described for an object of lasting evil (see Lingering Effects of Evil, later in this chapter). Dark craft experience points and dark craft gold pieces can be combined with the destruction of souls to make a magic item even easier to build (see Souls as Power, later in this chapter).