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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7392068" data-attributes="member: 6796661">He would not give such a weapon for a soul. Her having the ax must advance some plan of his. First, make the weapon intelligent--a reflection of Asmodeus will. Narratively, it would make it feel different than just another powerful weapon. Mechanically, it gives you a way to shape outcomes, which the only reason the Lord of Hell would give it to someone. Perhaps, he expects it to be stolen by some powerful rival, giving him an excuse to attack that rival.Perhaps the weapon finds ways to create foes. Foes that would never have been Lagatha's foes--and were not the intended foes she needed the power to slay--but by the strict terms of her contract, they are foes even if she never wanted them as foes.  And she does have the power to slay them, even though she never intended nor wanted to.I see a 15th-level Lagatha, sitting at the head of an army, maybe including questionable/evil allies and looking across the field to the opposing army, that has members of her family, her home tribe, and prior comrades--and she realizes why one doesn't make a deal with devils.</blockquote>