Possessed Weapons

Possessed Weapons are implements with a spirit bound to them. Except for certain naturally occurring nymphs bound to tools or weapons, the vast majority are made artificially through the creation of Servitors. Possessed Weapons are most often used by people with no powerful divergence techniques, though even divergent sorcerers regularly use Possessed Weapons to supplement their fighting style.

## Standard Possessed Weapons

Most Possessed Weapons have very basic servitors bound to them that provide advantages to using the weapon in several ways. The servitor's territorial claim of the weapon allows it to be unnaturally durable, able to take far harder blows before chipping or breaking. In addition, the Servitor's territorial claim is usually vastly more secure than that of any divergence technique, allowing even basic Possessed Weapons to disrupt them. This makes them indispensable for counter-mage squads.

Even when standard Possessed Weapons clash the outcome may be unpredictable, with the effect depending greatly on the compatibility between the two servitors. Due to servitors having their own personality and spirit, however simple. Possible reactions include:

- The two weapons violently repel each other. Common in servitors with similar minds that each try to maintain their territorial claim.

-The two servitors distort themselves and lock in spiritual struggle over each other's weapon. There might be strange pulling and twisting forces, distortion of claimed territory, and other effects from clashing spirit such as unusual conjuration of matter, and temperature changes in material within the territory.

-The two servitors engage in direct spiritual struggle against each other, temporarily abandoning their claimed weapons. Because the struggle takes place inside the servitor's minds, for an outsider's perspective this struggle is over in an instant. One of the two servitors usually dies and evaporates. In cases like this it's possible for the locked servitors to leave their weapons behind and instead quickly move through nearby matter, distorting it as they go. In the climax, the claimed area of the locked servitors may have very sudden energetic bursts of energy.

## Examples of Possessed Weapons

**Fracturing Presence**: A powerful mace made of a dark blue copper-like metal, with a complex ornamented head fixed on a 1.3 m long wooden pole. The servitor inhabiting Fracturing Presence is an extremely prideful and egocentric being with a near-unshakable territorial claim over the weapon and the environment around it. With its potency dropping off with distance, all attempts at conjuration or divergence techniques are thwarted, their spiritual energy being redirected by the servitor into the nearest solid ground like a lightning rod. All this spiritual energy gets expressed in the form of kinetic energy applied randomly to the ground. When stopping powerful magic, it may shake the ground like an earthquake. It is wielded by the Mageslayer Greatknight Orne Silesio in service of the Pallado family.

**Esoteric Omen**: A brilliant silvery straight sword engraved with runes from a language that doesn't exist. The spirit inhabiting it is unknowable and perhaps insane. It whispers to its owner in a non-existent language, yet its meaning is immediately understood. Seemingly, it manages to tell the owner whatever information is of key importance in the next moments. The weapon is ancient, though doesn't deteriorate, and the secrets behind its creation are unknown, but it can be ascertained it carries a massive amount of knowledge and has a divergence technique reaching up to dozens of meters that can infiltrate living spirits to access their mind, allowing for Esoteric Omen to warn its master of attacks even before they are made. In addition to its unusual abilities, the sword is made several times more durable and repairs small damage to itself instantly, and its edge is unnaturally sharp, capable of cutting a leaf falling on it. It is currently owned by Hira Sentruja.

**Innocence**: A large greatsword made from red copper, its blade length is 1.8 m and it weighs 12 kg when weighed neutrally, making it too unwieldy for combat. However, Innocence alters its trajectory with a powerful generated angular momentum which works in tandem with anyone wielding it, as long as it is for the purpose of wreaking the greatest possible carnage. When wielded for this purpose, it makes a loud repetitive droning noise which heightens the bloodlust of anyone in the vicinity, including its wielder. It is thought it feeds on the hostile spiritual energy produced in combat, allowing it to become even more powerful as the carnage becomes more frantic, granting the wielder unnaturally fast attacks and even allowing for impossible movements such as flight and mid-air turns due to its manipulation of angular momentum. It is wielded by an ancient Makhai on a battlefield site in the Sorean mountain range.

**Caegol's Claim**: An old curved sword with a blade about 65 cm long. The spirit inside projects itself in accordance to the wielder's will, and creates an invisible edge following the same trajectory as the blade, but up to dozens times larger and lagging slightly behind. This allows Caegol's Claim to cut as if it was a 50 m long sword. The sword is in poor shape and kept in storage in Keti Vu because the projected slashes reflect proportional damage back to the blade, scaled down appropriately, and the bound servitor doesn't make the blade unnaturally durable nor does it repair it. It might break on further uses.

**Rising Moon**: A bladed spear with a long curved blade. It has a 50 cm long blade fixed on a 2 m long pole, with similarities to the naginata. The blade is kept unnaturally strong and sharp by the spirit, but its real use lies in its unique divergent ability. The spirits of those killed by it are consumed and taken into its own inner world. They are distorted and fashioned into identical servitors that serve the spear's wielder. These servitors take the form of a demonic Gargoyle by possessing rocks and forming them into their body.