Lash of the Spelldrinker (Patreon)

Weapon (whip), rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster)

You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. While attuned to this whip, you are considered proficient with it and can use it as a spellcasting focus. In addition, you can use your spellcasting ability modifier for any attack or damage roll made with it, instead of Strength or Dexterity.

When a hostile creature within the whip's reach casts a spell, you can use your reaction to make a weapon attack against that creature with the whip. On a hit, the target must make a saving throw using its spellcasting ability against your spell save DC. On a failed save, you learn the level of the creature's highest remaining spell slot, and the creature takes extra force damage equal to that number.

When a creature takes force damage from the whip in this way, you can choose to recover an expended spell slot of a level equal to or less than the force damage dealt, up to 3rd level. Once the whip has been used to recover a spell slot in this way, it can't do so again until the next dusk.

"Hear now the words of the Justicars, for we will no more be silent. Though before we had remained ever-shadowed by our former companions in the Spelldrinkers, now is the time our true intent will be made known.

"From this day on, our true, grand work begins. Those users of obscene magic are not to be coddled, held as innocents when the very nature of their acts invites destruction. They will be rent asunder, the root of their power dug out by our conviction. Our resolve will not falter, for we have seen what fools' magic may bring. The tools you've come to call your own will finally live up to their full intention. Your restraint thus far has shown only weakness in your purpose—not wisdom.

"And to those of you whose hearts are too worm-ridden to see the oaths we made together through, the blasphemous powers you court will be used as fuel for the flames of our justice. You have our word, which will not be so easily broken."

—First ultimatum of the Justicars, as delivered by Paladin Mundus