Three Lock-ley Notions

Lockjaw: This small construct is carefully worked into the bulk of the object it secures, looking like a elaborate, scalloped brass and steel lock raised high from the surface of the door, chest or what-have-you. However, sharp shining teeth of adamant fill the irising keyhole jaws of a lockjaw, ready to neatly sever any object -- lockpick, fingertip, or otherwise -- that pokes into its maw. Only its own brassy key will be permitted inside.


The Golden Gear: Not simply one gear, but a cluster of tiny golden glass gears perpetually rotating within a colourless crystal sphere the size of a walnut, the golden gear will disable any wizard lock it happens to be pressed against. The myriad tiny gears whir and churn, appearing to extend through their shell and snarl in the now-visible spell-lock, unraveling the magics that hold the portal shut. The golden gear is always charged; with every use, one of its gears changes to a dull silver, until the sphere is inert.


Bindspider: Varying in size from a coin to a clenched human fist, bindspiders are objects of steel and crystal clockwork, electrum plates and silver wire. If applied to a door's latch, the bindspider will dig its legs into door and frame, pressing its body into the wood or stone; if presented to a latch's loop on a chest, it will thread its limbs in pairs through the catch and clutch them together. If an object can bear a lock, the bindspider can become that lock. Most bindspiders possess no keys, responding only to the touch of their owners.