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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TaranTheWanderer" data-source="post: 7586076" data-attributes="member: 15882">It requires a bonus action to attack, so to make it obvious, just require the cleric to make gestures to make it attack.  Maybe a ghostly, ethereal string is attached to the weapon from the cleric. - You could simply have it as a weapon that flashes into existence just as the weapon attacks and then disappears.  More intelligent creatures could track it and, thus, dispel it or realize it's the caster controlling it.  Or it's simply a divine strike.  The caster points at the target and it manifests divine lightning or force that smites the enemy.  It might look a bit more similar to the Witch Bolt spell.- Many people I play with have it be an actual weapon that flies from the caster's hand.  He or she is willing the real weapon to attack.  It's easy for even a low intelligence creature to realize the caster is the source.  When the spell breaks, the weapon falls to the ground(if concentration is broken) or flies back to the caster's hand(if they end it themselves).- It could be a ghostly warrior - perhaps a legendary hero of the particular god, or an avatar of the god -  wielding the weapon.  Translucent and, obviously, unaffected by mortal attacks.  So, one would not even attempt to attack it.  The cleric is controlling it like a puppet.or  a ghostly version of the cleric himself is wielding the weapon.  A wispy band of ethereal energy attaches the two together.- the cleric makes a slicing motion and a visible blade arcs from his arm and shoots out towards the target.- The sword is always hovering above the cleric but when he commands it to attack someone, a flame appears over their head (or some other symbol associated with their god), marking that person for their god's retribution.  Every time the cleric uses his bonus action, the sword flashes out and strikes the target then returns to the caster.  When you 'move' the weapon to a new target, you are just moving the 'symbol/mark' and not the sword itself.</blockquote>

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