Artifact

Meadyaon

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How would I go about making an artifact for the character described below? Thanatos is a god of undead and necromancy.

Thanatos is a figure in the shape of a nine feet tall humanoid with four arms. His icy cold body is bony and terribly thin with sickly yellow-green shriveled (mummy-like) skin tightly drawn across bones and thin muscles. His rotting head is monstrous in appearance and a nauseating sight to behold. The bones on the right side of the head are stripped of all flesh and muscle revealing bare bones. Solid yellow light glows from within the eye sockets with an cold, evil, unnatural light. The head has long powerful, jaws rimmed with six inch long sharp fang-like teeth. Eleven-inch dagger-shaped teeth protrude from the upper jaws of the head. These teeth are tapered to an edge on both the front and the back cusps. The head has worms crawling on it. The arms are covered in rotting, gangrenous skin with areas of bone showing through the skin. The armor he wears appears as a large rib cage complete with spinal column and shoulder blades. The bone the armor is made from appears to be human in origin, and is bleached white. He wears a billowing hooded black funereal robe over his armor with a belt of skulls. The left side of the robe is rotting and tattered.
 

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I was thinking that the Thanatos had either a scythe or wand as his Artifact.
I am not sure what abilities and such the artifact should have.
 


What exact are the ability of the Wand of Orcus? If it is a staff I want the staff to have a skull and if possible made out of bones.
 

What exact are the ability of the Wand of Orcus? If it is a staff I want the staff to have a skull and if possible made out of bones.

It was best in 1E "This skull-tipped wand's primary ability is to slay almost any living creature it touches, whether the creature is struck by it in combat or that touches it against Orcus's will."

Two depictions:

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Would this help any?

Fascination with death in all its forms. He examines and studies ways one can die and kill, as well as implements of death, how the human (and nonhuman) body react/responds to the threat of death/fear reaction, tolerance to pain, survival responses, and even the philosophical concepts of death, soul, life after death and so on.
 



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