Buellen Fugue - The Flail of Berham

When first discovered in the treasury room of the dungeon Swipe, Buellen Fugue was laying in weapon form amongst a pile of coins. As Tyrion Slavesh ran his fingers through the treasure he came away with the flail. His contact drew forth a voice from the weapon that spoke simply, "Do we make pact?" Tyrion immediately laid the weapon aside, disturbed by it. He would go on to take the weapon, speaking with it, though it said little other than to entice him to "Ride the waves of chaos," and to, "Overturn the world," and other such pronouncements.

The party has yet to see further from the weapon. It would seem that the bard, Slavesh means to take the being up on its pact.

## Bᴜᴇʟʟᴇɴ Fᴜɢᴜᴇ - Tʜᴇ Fʟᴀɪʟ ᴏғ Bᴇʀʜᴀᴍ

**Level 1**

Flail, artifact (requires attunement).  Buellen Fugue is a magic, sentient flail and has been called the Tumult's Truncheon, and Allallukiplu and is legendary as the Royal Scepter of Dalāḫubaba.   It grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it.   It deals an extra 1d4 damage, type decided as per the Elemental Damage chart below.  On an attack roll of 1, 2 or 3, the attuned user takes the 1d4 elemental damage instead of the target, and no other damage is incurred.

Buellen Fugue has an expanded critical - a roll of natural 20 is considered a critical attack, regardless of any other circumstance, and a roll of 1 and 3 are considered critical failures, regardless of any other circumstances.

**Elemental Damage.**  The extra 1d4 damage is based on the following chart:

1. Poison
2. Acid
3. Fire
4. Cold
5. Radiant
6. Necrotic
7. Lightning
8. Thunder
9. Force
10. Psychic

**Properties.**  Buellen Fugue has a number of properties, but says little about them:

* World Breaker.  It functions as an adamantine weapon for the purposes of striking objects.
* He Who Un-knits the Foundations.  Buellen Fugue deals an extra 1d8 bludgeoning damage to Celestials and Constructs.

**Spells.**  There is a trace of magic upon Buellen Fugue.  The use of any magic cast while the flail is on your person, including the spells cast from it, are to be followed by a roll of 1d100 off of a hidden "Wild Magic Chart," maintained by the DM.

**Sentience.**  Buellen Fugue is a sentient, chaotic neutral weapon, that can casually drift into chaotic evil.   It has an Intelligence of 14, Wisdom 18, and Charisma 11.  It can speak, read and understand Lišānum, the Ancient Tongue, Hjartunga, as well as Proto-Munrmál and will take up any languages it's wielder knows.  In addition, the item can communicate telepathically with any character that carries or wields it.  It has hearing and normal vision out to 120 ft.

It mulls the affairs of the world quietly, and will generally not speak, but may perchance rise to a crescendo of evocative, fevered speech.

**Personality.**  Buellen Fugue loves beasts, and honors them as the "peak of conquest."  It quietly sheds its protection upon druids and those who defend nature with strength.  It will require its attuned wielder to make obeisance and to honor any dead beasts, including those that attack it or its wielder.

The flail holds Dwarves and þursar in distaste, flatly refusing to express why, and will take little provocation to cast spells from itself upon them (spells used in this way do not count against the "daily use.")

Buellen Fugue delights in desire, passion and drive.  It will encourage greed and capture, it will praise and stoke a drive to bed mates, fill bags with treasure and make conquest.  Conversely, Fugue will be baffled by assertions of altruism, cowardice and misdirected mercy.  It believes in a philosophy of the right to seize by honorable conquest, and that he who is strong has the right to possess, but sees trickery and assassination as weakness and dishonor.

**Chaotic Nature.**

Buellen Fugue will be confused at overly lawful acts by its attuned user. However, it will examine these acts within a broader historical basis of them being overturned in time, a concept that will please it.  Iconoclasm will draw praise from him, even if its is desecration of things given to Berham.  All things are cycles, all must fall, the powerful will endure and that is praiseworthy.