STORMCHASER’S CUDGEL
CHAPTER 3
ITEMS OF LEGACY Illus. by D. Marton
When Suldan felt he could finally handle the weapon Stormchaser’s Cudgel is a Large greatclub that appears proficiently, he ventured off in search of the ogre tribe to be little more than an oaken branch. The head of to which the previous owner had belonged. Suldan the club is split and cracked with age, but it is no less went on to slaughter his way through untold hosts of ogres in his personal crusade to uncover the history of durable despite the passage of time. Two large handholds have been worn into the base of the weapon Stormchaser’s Cudgel. (DC 20; The Traceless Path) Little did Suldan realize that the secrets of Stormfrom repeated use. Nonlegacy Game chaser’s Cudgel were known only to the ogre mages Statistics: Large +1 that traveled between the ogre greatclub; Cost 2,310 tribes as they pleased. To stop gp; Damage 2d8; Suldan and reclaim the legendWeight 16 lb. Stormary greatclub, one of the ogre mages took Ifelma and her chaser’s Cudgel is a Large, two-handed children hostage. The ransom weapon. Medium creaprice was Stormchaser’s Cudgel. Even though his family’s lives tures cannot use the greatclub without some hung in the balance, Suldan would not part with special ability to wield such weapons (see the the weapon. Upon hearing Suldan’s choice, Monkey Grip feat, page 29). Stormchaser’s Cudgel grants you Ifelma snapped. She a +1 bonus on saves against knew Suldan valued his expeditions more spells with the electricity than his family, but she descriptor. Omen: When you swing hadn’t realized that her husband was irredeemably selfish. Stormchaser’s Cudgel, the club discharges harmless To save herself and her children, electrical sparks. she led a group of ogres and ogre mages to Suldan’s secret grotto, where they surprised the HISTORY Stormchaser’s Cudgel is one of huntsman and tore him limb the few weapons of monstrous from limb. (DC 25; Ancestral Roots) origin to pass briefly into human The ogre mages, impressed ownership. Taken from a rampaging ogre killed by a giant-hunter named with the fiery and pragmatic human Suldan Kabrel, this item was initially woman, adopted her and the children treated as just one of many prizes, its into their culture instead. Ifelma was true power remaining a secret for heralded as a heroine and her children years. It wasn’t until Suldan’s wife were always treated well. Years later, Ifelma gave birth to a half-ogre boy she named Grugak. The Ifelma set his precious trophies on half-breed grew into a potent warfire, during one of his numerOgre mages created Stormchaser’s Cudgel, which ous extended hunts, that the rior and was greatly honored by ultimately destroyed its rapacious owner magical nature of Stormchaser’s the enigmatic ogre mages—they Cudgel was discovered. It surgave him Stormchaser’s Cudgel. They vived the flames virtually unscathed. (DC 15) told Grugak Stormchaser’s Cudgel was originally taken from the heart of a petrified tree. A bolt of lightning Once Suldan was able to examine Stormchaser’s Cudgel more closely, his obsession with it became even greater had struck and split the tree asunder, revealing the than his previous fixation on hunting had been. Suldan greatclub inside. Stormchaser’s Cudgel has been passed practiced for months with the oversized weapon, down through unrecorded generations of ogres ever insisting the great club could not only guide him since. Suldan Kabrel awakened more abilities in the through the forest but also offered healing abilities. greatclub than any previous owner in its history, but
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