Flameblade Candelabra (Patreon)

Weapon (trident), very rare (requires attunement)

A wrought iron candelabra that, when ignited, becomes a blazing weapon.

Eerie Blaze. While unlit, this weapon is indistinguishable from a worn candelabra. You can use a bonus action to speak its command word, causing it to ignite with long, blade-like flames from each of the three candlesticks. While lit, the weapon deals fire damage instead of the normal piercing, sheds bright light in a 10 foot radius and dim light for another 10 feet, and gains special properties detailed below depending on the type of wax used. The weapon remains lit until you speak the command word again, or for a total of 3 hours, after which the wax is expended and must be restored during a short or long rest. The wax can be restored using a vial of blood or ash harvested from a creature, and the creature type determines the effects of the flame while lit:

Humanoid Blood: 2d6 additional fire damage.

Undead Ashes: 1d6 additional necrotic damage. Creatures in the light can be damaged normally by non magical weapons, cannot become intangible, and can be seen as though they weren’t invisible.

Celestial Blood: 1d6 additional radiant damage. Creatures in the light lose any resistance to fire or radiant damage.

Fiend Blood: 1d6 additional fire damage. Creatures in the light cannot regain hit points.

While lit, the trident can also be used as a spellcasting focus. When you cast a spell using this weapon as a focus, you can choose to change the damage of any spell cast to match the type of the additional damage determined by the wax.

The product of strange and gruesome magics, this iron wrought weapon is disguised as an unassuming candelabra, a trinket to be displayed at a grim noble’s side. Using blood from various creatures, it can change its terrifying flames to ghostly green, radiant gold, or hellish red, allowing the wielder to slay any intruder upon their lair. Denizens of shadowy castles tend to have a flair for the dramatic.