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Equipment · Introduced in Book 7
Enchanted Toe Ring of the Well-Balanced
The Enchanted Toe Ring of the Well-Balanced gives level-five Heart Balance, Mind Balance and Physical Balance. Together they provide an automatic potion trigger, resistance to mental control and better footing.[1]
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Three kinds of balance
Heart Balance holds a potion and releases it when a chosen condition is met. Mind Balance resists Enslavement and Conscription. Physical Balance includes level-fifteen Surefooted, Extra Steady Balance and Walk on Air. Carl already knows the last two.[1]
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History
Book 7
This Inevitable Ruin
Carl wears it on his left pinky toe and stores a healing potion set to trigger at two percent health. Mind Balance immediately reports an activation he cannot explain. Repeated resistance to unauthorized actions raises it to nine. He takes off the ring before the supervised memory treatment meant to trap Shi Maria.[2]
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Book 7
This Inevitable Ruin
Layered psionic attacks initially overwhelm him. As Mind Balance trains up to sixteen during the battle, Carl breaks free of the trance. He can then resist Eris’s Bear Witness while the others freeze.[3]
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Sources
References are to Matt Dinniman’s novels. Book links open our recap guides.
- This Inevitable Ruin, Chapter 4.
- This Inevitable Ruin, Chapters 4, 14, 16.
- This Inevitable Ruin, Chapter 65.