Illus. by M. Phillippi
ITEMS OF LEGACY
CHAPTER 3
NOTCHED SPEAR
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Five centuries ago, the ravages of a tremendous, This wickedly barbed longspear is carved out of a solid fiendish shark destroyed the legendary city of Klordatha, a place where merfolk and tritons once dwelt piece of bone. It’s decorated with coral, pearls, and sapphires. Flowing Aquan script runs the length of together. Sahuagin priestesses of Sekolah summoned the spear, detailing its history and wielders stretching the creature from the black depths of the infernal planes. At the city’s last stand, its ruler and founder, back thousands of years. Nonlegacy Game Statistics: +1 longspear; Cost the triton hero Oceaneid, bore the Notched Spear into 2,305 gp. When set against a charge, Notched Spear battle against the great shark-fiend. The clash lasted for deals an extra 1d6 points of damage on a successful three tides. In the end, the shark swallowed Oceaneid whole even as the triton’s spear pierced its gullet and attack against a charging creature (on top of the killed it. The monster’s carcass, along with the body normal double damage). Omen: While you grip Notched Spear’s haft, you can of the king and his legendary weapon, was cast into always hear the sound of the ocean. the deepest rift in the ocean, the bottom of which not even the tritons have seen. (DC 25; Pierce the HISTORY Unholy Devourer) The Notched Spear was crafted The Notched Spear many thousands of years was seized as a trophy ago for one of the great by a sahuagin warlord triton princes of the during one of the first Elemental Plane of battles between the tritons and sahuagin after Water. Carved from a single rib of an the tritons’ migration to the Material Plane. enormous sea serpent, the spear was powerNotched Spear’s loss was a fully ensorcelled against terrible blow to the tritons, the tritons’ traditional and many of their great heroes gave their lives in the enemies—the sahuagin. The spear was search for it. After the roll of lost sometime after many years, a cunning rogue The Notched Spear was first forged for a great named Oceaneid took a small the majority of tritriton prince of the Elemental Plane of Water tons migrated to the Material band of tritons and merfolk into Plane, and it is now mentioned the dark grottoes and blaspheonly in the legends and stories of that aquatic people. mous temples of the sea devils. At great cost to the (DC 15) party, Oceaneid and the merfolk bard Iara escaped, A year ago, seers in many coastal towns and port bearing with them the legendary Notched Spear. The cities began to experience a singular vision in their pair received many honors for their deed. Some years dreams—a long, barbed spear carved out of bone, later, they founded the first communal settlement inresting on the ocean floor amid a bed of waving habited by both their races. That town became the city seaweed. A voice in their heads then spoke in Aquan, of Klordatha. (DC 31; Unity of the Waters) saying, “The worthy shall be rewarded, and the many-toothed destroyed.” Those who recognized LEGACY RITUALS Three rituals are required to unlock all the abilities the spear as the Notched Spear of triton legend said of Notched Spear. the vision heralded the imminent defeat of the sahuagin and their evil allies below the waves. Most Touch of the Sea Gods: Recovering the Notched Spear from its resting place on the sea bottom is an uniquely, the word for “worthy” used by the divine voice carries the connotation of a nontriton that has impressive feat, but you must also spend an entire day proven itself to the triton community. Some sages meditating and praying in a temple dedicated to a god argue that the one destined to carry the Notched of the sea. Cost: 4,000 gp. Feat Granted: Least Legacy (Notched Spear). Spear will be an air breather, a highly controversial (and to some tritons, offensive) idea. (DC 18; Touch Pierce the Unholy Devourer: Alone, you are required to engage a fiendish dire shark in combat of the Sea Gods)
