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The Last Exception

A massive greatsword of black, glass-smooth metal, its edge reflecting no light. A narrow seam of starless darkness divides the blade from hilt to point, while tiny silver marks crawl along the fuller like constellations being redrawn. Its crossguard resembles two opposing crescents, and its grip is wrapped in pale, warm leather that beats faintly like a pulse.

Magic items
Artifact · Greatsword (weapon) · Attunement

The Last Exception

A massive greatsword of black, glass-smooth metal, its edge reflecting no light.

At a glance

Greatsword (weapon), artifact (requires attunement by a creature willing to hear the weapon's demands)

Made by The Nameless Cartographer

Value Priceless

Weight 6 lbs

  • artifact
  • weapon
  • greatsword
  • force
  • sentient
  • cursed
  • resistance
  • immunity

Its will

Mind Intelligence 18, Wisdom 16, Charisma 20. It can see and hear out to 120 feet and has darkvision within that range.

Personality Patient, incisive, and mercilessly curious. It treats certainty as an insult and regards hesitation in the face of injustice as complicity.

Wants It seeks to discover and overcome every supposedly absolute defense, while insisting that its wielder use its power against foes it judges dangerous or oppressive.

How it speaks It speaks telepathically to its attuned wielder in a calm, exacting voice, and can communicate telepathically with any creature that touches its blade.

At the table

A quirk

The card

3 properties

Greatsword (weapon), artifact (requires attunement by a creature willing to hear the weapon's demands)

  1. Always on
    The weapon's edge passes through ordinary steel as though testing the truth of it.
  2. Always on
    The sword fixes its attention on one defense at a time, then changes its own nature at dawn.
  3. Always on
    When the sword hits, a brief dark halo marks the target as a problem the blade intends to solve.

The curse

Cursed · GM only

Its story

A massive greatsword of black, glass-smooth metal, its edge reflecting no light. A narrow seam of starless darkness divides the blade from hilt to point, while tiny silver marks crawl along the fuller like constellations being redrawn. Its crossguard resembles two opposing crescents, and its grip is wrapped in pale, warm leather that beats faintly like a pulse.

Lore

Called the Last Exception, the blade embodies the stubborn conviction that every defense has a limit. Its bearers have broken tyrants, slain supposedly unkillable monsters, and sometimes mistaken certainty for justice.

History

The sword was forged at the edge of a dying universe and carried by champions who challenged beings thought beyond harm. Its last known bearer vanished after refusing to strike down a protected enemy, leaving only a clean, sword-shaped absence in the stone where the blade had rested.

Quirks

It gives a soft, disappointed click whenever a creature resists or is immune to a damage type other than its chosen type.
Its silver inscriptions rearrange themselves into the names of nearby creatures with unusual defenses.
When drawn, nearby flames lean toward the blade, even in still air.

Details

Made byThe Nameless Cartographer, a star-forger who mapped the boundaries of reality before the planes were divided.
PowerArtifact
SystemD&D 5E

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