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Dalor Darden
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 Posted - 29 Apr 2012 : 16:42:48
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I started a Valuable Villains thread a while back, and a Valuable NPCs thread, so I thought I'd start a thread where folks could post Magic Items that they have created for their own Forgotten Realms Campaigns.
The sort of items I'm talking about would have LORE attached to them. Not simply "Backstabber's Shortsword +2 that gives an extra d6 to backstab damage"...but more like:
Hendril's Hoarblade
Hendril was a half-elven adventurer who lived long ago in the city of Myth Drannor. He was very skilled with sword, stealth and sorcery all; his adventures were many, but his only true legacy was a finely crafted shortsword that he labored many years to research and create.
Often faced with the perils of fire-hurling wizards, most of whom Hendril provoked into battle with his efforts to rob them blind; the half-elven rogue decided to create a sword that would enable him to better slay his enemies...and thus came to be Hendril's Hoarblade.
Crafted of fine crystal and fiery red rubies, the blade was of course magically treated to ensure it would not shatter; but that was the least of its enchantments. Hendril also bestowed within the blade a power that would protect the wielder against the gouts of fire he was so adamantly out to avoid as well! The shortsword also was rimed in ice, and a touch that brought blood from a foe would also cause icy crystals to penetrate the flesh of one so struck.
So armed, Hendril again set out to his "dungeon delving" within the halls of human wizard towers. His efforts to curb the advancing strength of humanity upon the verges of his forested homeland were cut short however when Hendril finally fell to the powerful spells of Neleskar Phorshialk. Neleskar was a deadly powerful Necromancer who drew Hendril into a well orchestrated web of undead guardians who so weakened the half-elven adventurer, turned wizard assassin, that Hendril died under a withering barrage of icy hail and was then frozen in a maelstrom of cold unleashed by the very man he had hoped to kill.
Hendril's Hoarblade, and a great many of his other magics, fell into the hands of Neleskar Phorshialk who had apparently been hunting for a magical sword that would aid his homeland against the fiery predations of the Red Wizard's of Thay during the Salamander War. The powerful shortsword is next said to have been wielded by an assassin in the employ of Neleskar; but the man is said to have died and the blade was lost into the grinding dirt and mud of the battle-field.
Recently, however, an adventuring company in Thesk sold a blade matching the description of Hendril's Hoarblade to a merchant named Cooristar; a seller of beer! Cooristar has only recently returned to Sembia and has placed the sword for sale to the highest bidder within Ordulin; but in the meantime is said to stir his beer with the blade to chill it before drinking...a rather sad fate for such a blade, but the beer is said to taste much better cold than warm.
Hendril's Hoarblade is a +2 Glassteeled Frost Touch Shortsword that also acts as a Lesser Ring of Fire Resistance.
Sorry the writing may not be all that great on this one, I just whipped it off the top of my head just now...will do better in the future Lorewise (dates and such I mean). 
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Diffan
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Posted - 29 Apr 2012 : 23:52:25
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| I like it, well done. |
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MalariaMoon
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 30 Apr 2012 : 02:04:25
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| I like it too, Dalor, but do you know about the Candlekeep Magic Shop thread? 50 pages of homebrewed magic items, stickied and residing at the top of the this forum. javascript:insertsmilie('') |
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Dalor Darden
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Posted - 30 Apr 2012 : 04:58:58
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quote:
Originally posted by MalariaMoon
I like it too, Dalor, but do you know about the Candlekeep Magic Shop thread? 50 pages of homebrewed magic items, stickied and residing at the top of the this forum. javascript:insertsmilie('')
Well, yes...yes I do. However, my mind seems to have eliminated that from my ability to remember before posting this thread.
<insert duh check smiley>
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Galuf the Dwarf
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Posted - 01 May 2012 : 15:46:37
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"Frost Touched"? Never heard of that property before. Where'd you get that from?  |
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Dalor Darden
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Posted - 01 May 2012 : 15:56:10
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quote:
Originally posted by Galuf the Dwarf
"Frost Touched"? Never heard of that property before. Where'd you get that from?
I was just shooting off at the mouth Galuf...it doesn't exist.
HOWEVER, if you look in this: http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=893&whichpage=52 you can see I corrected it.
Also, Frost Touched could just mean that it does a single extra point of cold damage.  Not what I intended...but never the less a possible "thing" eh? |
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