Sheva's Sword

A web enhancement for Issue 1 of the Ptolus Comic

A frequent bar patron in Delver's Square, Sheva Callister is one of the city's best-known delvers. Sheva is well known for having found the Crown of Ki-Lias, an artifact of the Elder Titans which she sold to a wizard in the Inverted Pyramid. What is less known is that Sheva also found a powerful but evil sword: a hungersword with additional potent enhancements. Once she realized what the sword was, Sheva paid the Dreaming Apothecary well to permanently hide the sword from divinations seeking hungerswords.

The Sword

This blade is a +5 unholy defender greatsword. It adds a +4 enhancement bonus to the wielder's Strength and it allows her access to haste (self only) as a spell-like ability 1/day. Plus, it has all the powers of a hungersword: made of black adamantine, its every strike inflicts one negative level if the victim fails a Fortitude saving throw (DC 22). When a negative level is inflicted, the wielder gains 5 temporary hit points, to a maximum of 50 hit points in a given day, at which time the sword inflicts no more negative levels. The hit points last no more than twenty-four hours.

You'll see Sheva's Sword in action in issue 1 of the Monte Cook's Ptolus: City by the Spire comic, published by DBPro.

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