Battle Butcher (Patreon)

Weapon (greataxe), very rare

This enormous cleaver has long since outgrown its original culinary usage. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. 

Carve. As an action you can swing this weapon around you, carving the flesh of your enemies. You make a melee attack with this weapon against each creature within 10 feet of you (even if the target is outside the normal range of this weapon). You must roll a separate attack roll for each target. 

Bleed. When you hit a creature with this weapon, the target gains a Bleed stack. At the start of the creature's turn, it takes 1d4 necrotic damage as it begins to bleed out. The damage die increases in size for each Bleed stack a creature has, up to a maximum of 1d12. To remove Bleed stacks, the target or another creature within reach of it must use an action to make a DC 14 Medicine check to staunch the bleeding. Bleed stacks are also removed if the target receives magical healing. Constructs, undead, and creatures without blood are immune to this effect. 

Day in and day out, Barry prepared meat for the uncountable soldiers that filled the barracks. As the mountain of meat to be carved grew with each passing day, so did the size of Barry's cleaver to match the magnitude of this task. No matter how much mystery flesh was placed before the butcher, Barry was sure to  make short work of it, hacking and slashing through bone, flesh, and gristle alike. When soldiers ran short, he was more than ready to step upon the battlefield with his trusty friend in hand; after all, nobody knew how to butcher meat as well as they.