[Swordtember 2024] Soulbezzled Touch (Patreon)

Soulbezzled Touch 

Weapon (any sword), very rare (requires attunement)

Component: Fiend soul

“Your eyes are such a deep emerald green! Have you ever considered a future in jewellery?”

-Kadet Guill, blademaster and avid gemstone collector

This item can hold up to 13 charges. Whenever you kill a creature of CR 1 or higher using this weapon or its properties, you can choose to trap the creature’s soul in one of the gems set in the rings, gaining charges equal to the creature’s CR. Constructs yield no charges.

Wealth of Souls. When killing a creature would grant more charges than the rings can hold, any excess charges are converted into a gemstone. Additionally, as an action, you can convert any number of charges into a gemstone. Either way, the gemstone is a nonmagical gem of the DM’s choice worth 50 gp times the number of charges used in the gem’s creation.

Woe, Souls Be Upon Ye. While wielding this weapon, you can expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it (save DC 16): bane (1 charge), bestow curse (5 charges), blood curse* (9 charges), contagion (9 charges), lifesap aura* (3 charges), or soul rend* (7 charges). Once this property has been used to cast three spells, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.

Curse. This item is cursed, and attuning it extends the curse to you until you’re targeted by a remove curse spell or similar magic. As long as you remain cursed, you are unwilling to part with the weapon and can’t willingly end your attunement to it. You are haunted by the souls trapped within the gemstones, and any that knew a language in life can speak to you telepathically. Additionally, if you die while attuned to this item, your soul becomes trapped in one of the gems, and you cannot be revived until a remove curse spell or similar magic is cast on the weapon.

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Rare variant: Reduce the DC to 15 and the maximum charges to 9. Remove blood curse, contagion, and soul rend from the Woe, Souls Be Upon Ye property’s list of spells.

Legendary variant: Increase the DC to 17 and the maximum charges to 17. Add circle of death (11 charges) to the Woe, Souls Be Upon Ye property’s list of spells.

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