Gelliad's Sword (Magic Sword)

Matching her knife, Gelliad's sword is a simple weapon, forged from dark iron and sporting a plain leather grip.
The sword contains an unusual fetish, a vampiric spirit which draws power from the sword's victims and can expend its energies to increase the weapon's damage. Every time the sword is used to take a sentient life, it gains one charge.
Normally the sword is a bastard sword +0 (a magical weapon that gives no bonuses to attack or damage rolls). However, it has a number of magical charges (2d4 when first encountered, to a maximum of 10 at any time), which can be expended by the wielder at will.
The expenditure of each charge doubles the sword's damage for one round only. Every time that the sword slays a sentient being, it gains one charge. When the last charge is used up the sword inflicts double normal damage +ld6, and shatters any nonmagical object that it strikes, like armor worn by a struck target, trees, bricks, and so on; but the fetish is thus destroyed and the blade ceases to be magical.
Gelliad was a noted mercenary who agreed to spare the life of a spiritualist if the shaman would teach her how to command the spirits. It took three years for Gelliad to complete her training, and on becoming a full shaman her first act was to kill her master.
Her career spanned two decades, and she armed herself with spiritual enchantments and earned a reputation as a formidable commander. Four years ago, she simply dropped from sight. The weapons that she had enchanted—her dagger, her sword and her armor—are now in other hands. Most assume that she has at last been killed and her possessions looted.
Category:Shaman Magic Items
Category:Magic Items
Category:Magic Swords
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