Post by DM on Oct 6, 2015 17:00:25 GMT
Tatholvir +3 translocating punching dagger
Tatholvir is a graceful dagger marked with the symbol of mask across the cross guard set with lapis lazuli stones on the fuller. Knotted black scale covers the hilt which is made of bone.
The benign artificer Garrohath from Starmantle of The Dragon Coast crafted Tatholvir in 801 by order of the duke Hodel At this point the dagger was a simple magical blade without its translocating ability or the symbol of Mask.
It was hardly drawn as Hodel was a coward though he loved to show it off at parties. Eventually he grew bored of it and it languished in his treasury until one day on 822 when there was an uprising and Hodel was dragged out into the square by the mob to be hung. It turned out he was a follower of Besheba the godess of ill fortune and as he was dragged to the gallows he called for her help which came in the form of a pack of displacer beasts which slaughtered and drove off the mob but then turned on Hodel and devoured him, Tatholvir with him!
Several years later, the beasts were found and killed by hunters and inside one of them was found Tatholvir but all that time it had spent inside the displacer beast had changed the blade somehow and so it had adopted the translocating powers it has now.
The dagger was returned to Garrohath out of respect (and fear) and he carried the dagger with him on his journeys.
Around 1252 Garrohath died of extreme old age in his bed and four of his former apprentices he had over the years received invitations to his funeral and so returned to pay their respects and divide his treasures as he had left no instructions or family.
A half elven arcane trickster by the name of Ellaray had previously been disowned by Garrohath for her dishonesty and cruelty so when she turned up, the other apprentices tried to have her removed from the ceremony but she had returned for another purpose – throughout her tutelage and eventual outcasting she had been treated cruelly by the four apprentices and so wanted revenge and now she had all of them in the same place for it was her who really sent the letters informing them of Garrohath’s death. She made short work of them and then stole everything.
She was a servant of the Shadowtheives in Athkatla and, taking a liking to the dagger, had it inscribed with the symbol of Mask, her patron.
She met a sticky end in 1369 when she spoke out of turn to one of the masters and her dagger was then passed onto a promising guildmember named Daragost who was setting up a silhouette in Crimmor. When he saved one of the elder guildmaster’s lives, he was awarded the blade and so he took it to Crimmor.
Daragost, a silhouette in the Shadowtheives was robbed of Tatholvir when killed by adventurers in 1375.