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GalwaEnchena is a silvered broadsword, with a golden metal twine handle. It bares the etching, GalwaEnchena, along its length, and on the otherside side the phrase, “to those willing”. It is of excellent craftsmanship, if considered as a mundane weapon. It glows slightly because of its magikal nature.
Alyen the Wise, known as Alyen the Bloody, King of Western Marches. He searched out the finest magic crafter of the ages, Corvus, to forge the ultimate weapon- one which would allow a single man to destroy another army, or even a God.
(It is said that this weapon is the reason why Gods no longer manifest upon the world.)
Corvus hated war, as it was wasteful, but in his madness could not resist the challange of making the ultimate weapon. It was forged in the fires of the Anchilles Mountains. (In fact there is a temple now at the site of the forging.) In one moonspan, it was completed. The magiks were complicated, and needed to be empowered, but no foe could stand up to the weapon.
It was after contemplating this gift that Alyen became The Wise. For he never used the weapon.
Magical Properties:
The Ultimate weapon will kill anything manifesting on the material plane, for a price. The target has No Save, No Resurrection, and No Reincarnation. The weapon cuts them out of the web of the world. They are very dead. As time goes on, no one remembers they existed, and evidence of their existance changes and fades. They become dead and forgotten, lost to time.
The target can be a single being to an army under the same flag/ unit colors. The wielder just needs to be able to visualize the target; set them in their mind. Most people require line of site to slay people they don’t know or a large number of people like an army or unit.
The Price to use this weapon? A willingness to give up their own life, their own chance of reincarnation, have no chance of resurrection, and to be cut out of the web of the world. As time goes on, no one knows remembers they existed, and evidence of their existance changes and fades. They as become dead and forgotten as their victim.
This weapon also has a karma charmed weaved into it. It can never be lost for long. It will always find its way into the right persons hands. That person must face the choice to use or not use the weapon.
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- Corvus NPCs By: MoonHunter
June 5, 2003, 11:18
Good sword =)
June 7, 2003, 3:01
There should be a WillPower or Piety save made before using this weapon. After all. Nobody will remember you for doing this.
June 7, 2003, 19:38
I like the bit about karma and reincarnation. It allows it to fit into Nipponese-style settings as well as Western, with a few modifications.
June 11, 2003, 3:36
June 12, 2003, 4:24
1) Evil Dark Lord Looming in the wings... someone sends you to find it... just in case.
2) Somebody wants to know where it is, so they can control it, so it can't easily be used against them. Thus troupes are hired to look for it.
3) In response to 2), other people start hiring troupes to look for it and prevent those others from having it.
4) Item has gone missing from royal treasury, find it.
I mean the joy of this thing is that no matter how many times silly people use it, it does not really effect the campaign, as everyone forgets all the related events and problems.
But yes, another epic/ background sort of item.
July 12, 2006, 13:00
July 12, 2006, 13:12
July 13, 2006, 8:44
However, it seems way to powerful. Being able to remove an entire army or kill a god? There must be stronger repercussions to do a much larger degree.
I'm thinking to kill a person it is a 1 to 1 ration. To kill an army, the weave must be balanced and a larger loss must be incurred. To kill a god, should be a devastation. Just my opinion.
July 13, 2006, 10:08
Imagine what would happen if one removed that god's impact from the world....
Imagine the time between the instance of destruction and the settling of time, especially if that God did something important (like create a part of the world). The world would start coming apart. I assume another deity might travel back in time and undo the guy who was going to use the weapon... or another deity might be forged from the rush of energies entering that god based vacumn.
The world changes. The GM gets a moment of edit.
This is the joy of this weapon for a GM. Continuity is a watch word for GMs. Yet, here is the perfect mechanism of edit. The GM could radically alter their world, removing something that bothers them, ... perhaps letting the player and characters remember the world the way it was before (for a while)... and the edit could be simply a use of GalwaEnchena. The players investigate this dis-continuity and discover the "End of all Conflict".
May 5, 2013, 0:11
I feel there should also be something more in place to prevent someone from giving this weapon to another, who doesn't know the backstory or the price of the weapon, and telling them, "Visualize the foe, all you need do is want them dead and they will die; and you will be the hero!"
Or something along those lines.
Either way, this is still useful for backstory/lore.