Blades of the Faith I (good)

The Everhidden Brace: This pair of bracers was simply found one day, next to the sleeping form of one of El's many warriors, forgotten to history. El does not remove his followers from history, he simply renders them ever so subtly forgettable. Tokens of his warriors - most often weapons and armours - trickle down through history, and are known and wielded by many who know not even of the Paragon Dragon's existance.

The Everhidden Brace, when worn, renders the wearer's hands as a dragon's claws, each dealing 1d4 damage. They are also considered to have the Holy special property. Furthermore, the wearer may, at will, sprout a pair of transluscent shimmering wings from their back, which allow them to fly with a speed of 30, with a maneuoverability of clumsy.

Caster Level: 5th. Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armour, Holy Smite, Alter Self. Market Price: 33,400 gp; Weight: 1 lb.

Bloody Winter: There are two small lakes in northern Corrindale, each roughly ten feet across and sixty feet deep. Every winter, no matter how mild the weather or how long the summer beforehand, ice always forms over the top of these two lakes. Each lake, legend says, is a footprint of the Goddess Schwartzstrom, who stood in vigil for a whole month over the stone form of Vhaulun, preventing him from awakening.

At her feet, attending to her vigil, bringing her food and news of the world, were her six fellow godlings, the Children of Schwartzstrom. During the month, Atelier, the patron god of art, rendered a weapon for Schwartzstrom to bestow upon her followers in Corrindale, to defend the mountain that Vhaulun became. At first, the weapon was merely an artifice of raw strength, before it became a weapon of protection.

Bloody Winter is a +1 Sure Striking Maul, whose head is composed of white quartzite, magically empowered to the hardness of steel. There are a pair of platinum rings on its handle - one near the head, the other at the opposite end. The weapon is constantly covered with a crackling Bless Weapon effect (as cast by a 1st level Holy Liberator). The ring on the handle may be removed to duplicate a constant Shield Other spell, as cast by a 3rd level Cleric, with the wielder of Bloody Winter as the caster.

Caster Level: 5th. Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armour, Shield Other, Bless Weapon. Market Price: 36,729 gp; Weight: 13 lb.

Glory's Twain: Palescai is worshipped by Paladins and Clerics of war the world over. However, unlike many other gods of War, he does not so much glory in it as approach it as a form of study. He advocates caution and understanding, and minimises risk. There is, in fact, legend that speaks of the Archdevil Dispater, since displaced by Chalybs, being a child of Palescai, fallen to evil ruin.

Glory's Twain is a +3 Longsword. When wielded by a Lawful Good character with Weapon Focus (Longsword), it grants its wielder a +2 Sacred bonus to Charisma and a +3 Resistance bonus to all saving throws. Further, it is decorated along the blade with an array of magical writings of tales of war and glory, and can be used as a divine focus by Clerics and Paladins of Palescai.

Caster Level: 13th. Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armour, Commune, Bless. Market Price: 44,915 gp; Weight: 3 lb.

Twicefold Strike: Torus is a word, in Dwarven that is remembered to other races as meaning 'History'. It is easily the most commonly-known Dwarven word amongst all common races. One may wonder at this curiosity; why, for example, 'urgrosh' is not as renowned as the word for "History". The reason is simple; Torus Tonthan, the Dwarven God of History, is the patron god of bards and historykeepers in Cobrin'Seil. It has become known that one should rarely ire a bard; after all, no matter what your name is, there is a language somewhere in which it rhymes with something quite, quite rude.

Twicefold Strike is a long, hollow sitting flute that can be wielded as a +2 Spell-Storing/+2 Spell-Storing quarterstaff. When wielded, it grants its subject the ability to speak five languages - Abyssal, Celestial, Halfling, Dwarven, and Terran. Furthermore, when wielded, the wielder may act as if he had the Ambidexterity, Two-Weapon Fighting, and Improved-Two-Weapon fighting feats, provided the wielder fulfills the prerequisites.

Caster Level: 11th. Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armour, True Strike, Guidance, Imbue With Spell Ability. Market Price: 55,600 gp; Weight: 1 lb.

Redemption and Sacrifice: In Cobrin'Seil's history, there was once the tale told, in the First Age, of the mighty Paladin Rheiltahn Ducoris, who warred spitefully with a Pit Fiend, whose name has since been lost to history. However, Rheiltahn's hatred of the pit fiend eventuated as his undoing; he fell from grace, and rose to lead a bloody rampage against a village he felt guilty of housing the renegade outsider. All of Rheiltahn's evidence, however, was the Pit Fiend's great sword, which had been driven into the anvil of the local blacksmith's.

The Pit Fiend eventually rose again as a glorious god of redemption, and became known as Yojandur the ever-accepting. The god relinquished his old weapon, and took up a traveller's quarterstaff. The greatsword, anvil and all, was moved many times, before a stout weaponsmith of the Shalesmith line, seeking to create a weapon for a travelling woodsman and paladin, managed to separate the weapon from the anvil. The anvil, he subsequently melted down to form the substance of a large, basket-handled longsword, and the fabric of the greater weapon was melted down and reforged to be cast as a shortsword. A great deal of metal was lost in the process, which legend claims was turned to steam as the gods themselves forged the weapon. Economical legend claims that possibly the number of souveneir lumps of iron that have since turned up might not actually be fakes.

Redemption is a +2 Frost Longsword that is rendered from fine refined blue steel, transmuted in the forge from the anvil it once was. When wielded by a chaotic good character, it may be used once a day as the focus and caster of a Atonement spell. Once a day, a target struck with this weapon (if the wielder so chooses), can be given a single moment to re-evaluate their entire life, and reconsider their alignment. This weapon often gives its wielder a flash of insight upon being first wielded - which has led to a rise in the number of Holy Liberators running around in Cobrin'Seil.

Sacrifice is a +1 shortsword. Along its blade runs the same flame-edged pattern that decorated the original weapon wielded by Yojandur. The steel of its blade is inky and black, and seems to absorb light, even as the decorated flame edge glows a deep, brooding red. Bound around the handle of the weapon is a yellow braid of what appears to be string. When wielded against an evil outsider, Sacrifice takes on the Sure-Striking and Vorpal qualities.

Caster Level: 11th. Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armour, Finger of Death, Atonement, True Strike. Market Price: 48,515 gp (Redemption) 51,312 (Sacrifice); Weight: 3 lb. (Redemption), 2 lb. (Sacrifice).

San's Stone: This weapon was originally crafted by San Rellunus, a lone sun-elven wanderer of a turn of mind unlike normal Sun Elves. Not given to constructions of great artifice, and given special leave by his family and god to study nature rather than to defend Grimspire, Rellunus eventually studied the ways of a druid, becoming more at one with the wilds, until one day, he was approached by the god Acydea. Turned to the worship of a god of nature and beauty, San eventually designed and developed this weapon as simply a +1 Light Pick. It was blessed by Acydea, and so, San was permitted to wield it without invalidating his oaths. In time, however, Beholderkin claimed the land beneath the Corrindale woodlands, and so, San took up arms to defend the lands against them. Eventually, he was slain, but not before scarring the eye of the avatar of the Great Mother herself, wielding the might of a great dire bear.

San's Stone is a +2 Opposable Aberration-Bane Light Pick. It may, as it is blessed by both balance and nature, be wielded by druids without invalidating their oaths. Further, when wielded by a character capable of the Wild Shape ability, it grants the subject three additional uses of the Wildshape ability per day.

Caster Level: 3rd. Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armour, Blight Enemy, Pass Without Trace. Market Price: 71,302 gp; Weight: 1 lb.

Heart's Knowledge: Uilinan the Everflowing is a god worshipped the world over by would-rather-not-be-expectant mothers. As a god of fertility, new beginnings and the understanding of the body, Uilinan is often worshipped by doctors and healers the world over. This weapon, crafted in his name by a devout sect of worshippers to the south of Nbyana, was first made to be nothing more than a weapon to be wielded by their champion. It was later improved, by the touch of Uilinan himself, granting her the ability to fight at any time, not distracted by her normal monthly period.

Heart's Knowledge is a +2 Shortsword that, when wielded, renders its wielder able to completely and perfectly monitor and control their own natural bodily cycles. If female, the wielder suffers no monthly cycles, for example, and it grants the wielder the benefits of a Ring of Sustenance. Furthermore, it grants its wielder a +10 circumstance bonus to Heal and Profession (Herbalist) checks.

Caster Level: 6th. Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armour, Pass Without Trace, Create Food and Water. Market Price: 21,315; Weight: 2 lb.