Witch's Compass - Weird Magic Item #22

Inspired by the incredibly excellent Weird Magic Item generator over at Donjon.bin.sh, I've been coming up with a few of my own system agnostic weird magic items to put in the many games I run, be they 13th Age or Beyond the Wall...

Eventually I want to try and put them into a randomizer, but I need to generate a few first. I'm going to try and post one every other Wednesday. Please let me know if you end up using an item I've created in your own game. You can find the entire series here...

Antagonist Relations Weird Magic Item Generator Presents...

Witch’s Compass

This small stone disc has a small depression in its center and was created by a powerful witch to locate individuals either living or dead. When a piece of a body, like a fingernail, strand of hair, scale, feather or other scrap of bone or flesh is placed in the depression and a newt’s eye is placed over it, like a cap, the Compass activates, consuming the piece of the body. The newt's eye will rotate on the disc to point its pupil in the direction of the body the piece originally came from, or the largest fragment of the body if it has been dismembered. If the body is no longer on the same plane as the user of the compass, the newt’s eye disappears in a harmless puff of smoke, but otherwise it will continue to turn its pupil to point the user towards the body for 2d4+1 days at which point the newt’s eye dries out. The item can be re-used by placing a new fragment into the depression and covering it with a fresh eye of newt.