Friday, March 6, 2009

Magic Item: Winterfang

Winterfang: This broad-bladed spear has a shaft of frosted steel with grips of white dragonhide, and long tassels of soft white fur dangle from the socket of its sapphire-inlaid crystal head.
The soft ice-blue light emitted by Winterfang signals its enmity towards creatures of heat and flame, who suffer coldly burning wounds from the weapon's head and the bitter frost it represents. The enchanted spear was crafted as tribute to the Winter Court of Water by a cabal of human magic-users, but was never recorded as received by the emissaries of the Court.

Winterfang is a spear +1, +2 vs fire creatures. Additionally, all damage dealt by the weapon is considered to be cold damage when applied against creatures vulnerable to cold, whether flame-based or no.

2 comments:

trollsmyth said...

The enchanted spear was crafted as tribute to the Winter Court of Water...

So do all your elemental realms have seasonal courts? I never before thought to associate Water with ice and cold so much, but it certainly makes sense, especially considering how oddly water behaves when it freezes.

taichara said...

So do all your elemental realms have seasonal courts?

They all have at least one; there's a certain amount of overlap, though, and it causes some squabbling.

Earth and Fire can have very different opinions on "summer", for instance --