6Sample Names: Throat-taker, Widower, Betrayer, Skyscreamer, Elwyn’s Fate, The World You Knew, Ender, Duelmaster, Reptile’s Bane

SWORDSd20 WEAPON QUALITIES

1 The hilt is perfectly balanced, and when held on one’s fingers, it always points North.

2 The blade is freezing to the touch, and anyone it strikes will feel that cold agony.

3 The wielder of this sword can will it to glow. It emanates a light similar to that of a torch.

4 The blade is incorporeal, only emerging from the hilt when the wielder speaks the appropriate words.

5 The blade can be easily concealed, breaking down into a palm-sized hunk of steel.

6 The wielder of the blade is able to discern the weakness of anyone they draw blood from.

7 The wielder of the sword can never be disarmed – the blade refuses to leave their hand unless the wielder wills it.

8 The sword can scratch glowing runes onto any surface. The runes persist for two days before fading away.

9 The blade glows bright blue when goblinoids are nearby.

10 The blade is forged of starsteel, and when exposed to starlight, glows white and deals additional force damage.

7The Gladius of Xero: Long banished from the material plane, Xero now plans to make his

devastating return. While he is backed by an entire army of his own creation, his most dangerous prize is his blade, which grants him the

ability to stop time for all beings other than himself.

d20 PHYSICAL FEATURES

1 This blade’s edge is serrated.

2 Scratched into the weapon’s surface are the names of the lives it has taken.

3 This sword’s pommel is the skeletal fist of an orc.

4 This entire sword is a black hue, blade and all.

5 The crossguard on this sword is shaped like a ten-pointed sun, the edges of which are sharpened.

6 A razor-sharp dagger emerges from the pommel of this weapon.

7 This double-bladed sword has a grip in its center, and from either end of it protrudes two razor sharp blades.

8 The blade of this weapon is a matte crimson color.

9 This sword’s blade is carved from a mystical, green crystal. It gives off a dim, haunting glow.

10 This weapon has been crafted out of petrified wood.

11 This sword works like a massive switchblade. At the flick of a switch, the blade telescopes out of its lengthened handle.

12 This sword looks like a long cleaver, with an elongated axe head stretching out from the hilt.

13 The handle of this sword is a carved figurine of an ancient hero.

14 The crossguard of this sword is a soaring eagle. The blade emerges from its opened, upturned beak.

15 There is no handle or hilt on this sword. Instead, the lower third of the blade is wrapped in fine, azure leather.

16 The blade of this sword is crafted from the canine of a massive sea monster. Some of the blackened roots of the tooth are still attached, forming the wrap for the handle.

17 Scrap metal from an old, ironclad ship serves as the blade for this sword.

18 The tip of this sword is forked, tapering into a wicked hook.

19 Notches and fullers in the sword hum and sing as the blade swings.

20 Blood cannot be cleaned from this blade – it permanently stains the steel

Swords

8“_____________ the weapon.” Fill in the blank for some great plot hooks! (Find, destroy, salvage, repair, use, save, forge, reforge, sell, steal)

Swords

d12 (1) (2)

1 Northwind’s Razor

2 Bleak Blade

3 Telrond’s Cutter

4 Ancient Slicer

5 Forgotten Edge

6 Foe Biter

7 Shadow Brand

8 Whispered Foil

9 Harsh Saber

10 Singing Steel

11 Stone Gutter

12 Valhalla’s Unmaker

9Want to make things really interesting? Choose a table in this book, and roll the

properties for it. Then change it to a diametrically opposite weapon. Turn a bow into a sword, an axe into a spear, etc.

The Oathsworn Blades of the Last Imperium

In Old Erenoth, before the rise of the Kasrin Empire, the elves of the Elder Imperium ruled, uncontested, as they had for millennia. The Last Empress, Esethiel Kindren, bestowed upon her most trusted regents five swords of priceless value and uncontested craftsmanship. Forged of starsteel and mithral, with hilts of ironwood and scabbards of silver wyrmscale, these blades were as eternal as the Imperium itself – unchanging, unaging, unbreakable.

Darkstar: A longsword of shining, black metal. This weapon left glowing, seeping wounds that refused to heal. The elven regent who wielded it did so with cruelty and malice, and he was unseated by his own sons and daughters. The Darkstar was lost to time, the malevolence of its owner fading with the blade’s disappearance...

Thrumsteel: A massive greatsword of notched, silver metal. Thrumsteel sang and rang with each strike, sending shockwaves of thunder across the battlefield. The weapon was passed down the line of regents for generations, becoming an heirloom and persisting through the elven bloodlines after the fall of the Imperium. It sits now in the palace of Iridos, a prized artifact.

Longdraw: This sword had a long, curving blade of crimson-tinted steel. Longdraw was gifted to a blademaster of the Imperium, a regent of unrivaled skill and battle prowess. It’s said that Longdraw’s hiss upon leaving its scabbard could chill the blood and stutter the hearts of even the most steadfast warriors. It was lost overboard, along with its wielder, at the fall of the Imperium, and lies now at the bottom of the sea.

Gildblade: A broad-bladed shortsword of golden metal, honed to a fine edge and tapering down its length. Gifted to the wealthiest regent in the Imperium, it was a weapon coveted by many in the realm. The regent’s throat was cut in his sleep, and the Gildblade was taken, disappearing for thousands of years. It’s said that the blade now rests in the hidden headquarters of the Umbercloaks, an infamous weapon used in many historic assassinations.

Thornedge: An emerald-hued dagger with a leaf-shaped blade and a hilt adorned with ivy leaves of shimmering blue mithral. When the dagger was thrown, the wielder could speak a word of old Elvish to retrieve the weapon in a flash of light and a puff of fragrant smoke. It is a weapon made famous by the tiefling bard Taryn Darkwind, who carries it proudly on his hip.

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