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Sorrow
Sorrow is a weapon appropriate for characters in the middle of the heroic tier and upward.
Sorrow
This ebon blade has a cold feel to it, shadows roll off its surface, a sinister mist dissipating malice into the World. Imbued with the souls of its victims over millennia, it always seeks just one more.
Sorrow is a Pactblade longsword +2
Enhancement: Attack rolls and damage rolls
Critical: +1d8 + 2 cold damage; if the target is reduced to zero hit points, Soulrend triggers automatically (even if it has already been used).
Property: All damage dealt by this weapon is cold damage.
Property: While you are wielding Sorrow you gain access to the Soulrend power.
Property: When an attack power with the Fire keyword, each attack roll takes a -5 penalty.
Property: Sorrow reduces its owners maximum healing surges by 3.
Power (Daily ¨ Cold, Weapon): Free Action; Use this power when you hit with the weapon. The target takes an extra 1d8 cold damage and is slowed until the end of your next turn.
Goals of Sorrow
¨Kill living creatures to consume their souls
¨Destroy all living creatures except for elves
¨Dominate the elves under the heel of the Drow
Roleplaying Sorrow
Sorrow is an ancient Drow artifact forged by the Sorrowsworn, and gifted to the Drow by the Raven Queen in an attempt to lure them away from Lolth. The most compelling feature of
Sorrow is that it hungers. It seeks to consume life force, either that of its victims, or that of its bearer. It encourages its bearer to slaughter any non-elf it finds, and if it has not fed in the last 48 hours, will even encourage the death of elves.
Sorrow hates fire, and fears it, having spent a great deal of time in the lava flows of the World until it accidentally was pulled into the Elemental Chaos and from there made its way back to the shadowfell.
Concordance
Owner gains a level
Owner is a Drow
Owner is a follow of the Raven Queen
Owner uses
Raven’s Queen Blessing (once)
Owner slays a living creature (1/day)
Owner slays an undead of greater level than it (once)
Owner slays an elf, eladrin, or drow
Owner is not an elf, eladrin, or drow
Owner deals non-lethal damage
A day passes without killing something
Owner uses a power with the Fire keyword
Pleased (16-20)
“Sorrow exults in the feast of souls that I array before it, and it rewards me in ways I never thought possible."
The current owner of Sorrow is an agent of Death. When unsheathed, the mist rolling off the blade gathers momentarily around its owner before dissipating.
Property: When an enemy is reduced to zero hit points by an attack made with sorrow, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier.
Property: Sorrow grants its owner a +1 item bonus to Reflex.
Property: Sorrow grants resist 5 cold.
Property: Property: Sorrow no longer reduces its owners maximum healing surges.
Satisfied (12-15)
“Though I sate the blades hunger, it warns me that I may be next."
The current owner of Sorrow kills enough to meet its needs, but not enough to slake its thirst for carnage.
Property: If the Soulrend power is triggered by a critical hit, it will not take hit points if its owner has no healing surges.
Property: Sorrow grants its owner resist 2 cold.
Property: Sorrow reduces its owner’s maximum healing surges by 1 instead of 3.
Normal (5-11)
“In my dreams, Sorrow tells me that I must feed it, or it will consume me; I fear to conceive of what may happen if I fail!”
Property: Sorrow reduces its owner’s maximum healing surges by 2 instead of 3.
Unsatisfied (1-4)
“Sorrow starves, and will not release me. I can feel the tendrils of the shadow wrapping around my soul.”
Property: Soulrend consumes two healing surges, or twice the surge value in hit points.
Angered (0 or lower)
“Sorrow is angered;
Special: There is a 25% chance each time a successful attack is made that Sorrow will trigger Soulrend.
Special: Any Sorrowshade summoned while Sorrow is unsatisfied will attack the owner until destroyed, or until the owner dies.
Moving On
“Sorrow longs to return home.”
A Sorrowsworn Deathlord appears in the middle of the next extended rest and demands Sorrow. If Sorrow is not returned, the Sorrowsorn will attack until weapon is turned over. If Sorrows concordance is higher than 14, the Sorrowsworn will leave a Pact Blade +2 in its place; if Sorrows owner was a Drow and Concordance was higher than 18, it will be a Pact Blade +3.
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Sorrow grants its owner the Soulrend power, and with it, the ability to summon Sorrowshades.
Soulrend
Sorrow consumes the soul of your foe and channels your life-force to create an abomination of undeath.
Daily ¨ Necrotic, Weapon
Immediate Reaction
Personal
Trigger: You reduce an enemy to zero hit points by an attack made with Sorrow.
Effect: You lose one healing surge, or if you have none left, hit points equal to your surge value. A Sorrowshade appears under your control in an unoccupied square adjacent to you.
A Sorrowshade is a weak shadow creature created when Sorrow consumes the soul of a victim and infuses it with your life force. Sorrowshades are under your control, and act on the same initiative as you. Any action a Sorrowshade takes requires you to spend a minor action, and a Sorrowshade may take a minor, standard, and move action. Sorrowshades are fueled by your life-force, and absorbed into Sorrow at the end of combat, or the moment Sorrow leaves your hand, even if the blade is thrown as part of an attack power. A Sorrowshade has hitpoints equal to your healing surge value.
Sorrowshade
Small elemental magical beast (Shadow)
Initiative as Owner
Senses Perception +5
HP as Owners surge value
AC 17;
Fortitude 14,
Reflex 17,
Will 14
Speed 5
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Slam (standard; at-will)
+12 vs AC; 1d6 + 4
Alignment -
Languages -
Str 10 (+2)
Dex 16 (+5)
Wis 8 (+1)
Con 10 (+2)
Int 10 (+2)
Cha 10 (+2)
Equipment -
