Chiaroscuro

This scimitar is matte black on the left side and shiny white metal on the right. The blade is wide with a curled tip. The scimitar is balanced for juggling and throwing.

Powers

The full scimitar is +3 to hit and damage. It can shed beams of light and dark that are distinctly visible out to 2 feet from the blade, having appearance similar to the rays of light coming through clouds on a partly cloudy day. The rays can illuminate or obscure out to 30'.

After the owner possesses the sword for 24 hours, he will be granted proficiency in its use, and if already proficient with a scimitar, then specialization regardless of the character's class. Further, the wielder will become proficient in juggling, with an additional slot of proficiency if he can already juggle. These bonus proficiencies only apply when wielding the sword, or any of its 4 individual blades. Additional objects can be juggled while holding or juggling the weapon.

The sword can split into two scimitars, one matte black and the other shiny white metal. Further, two additional non-magical grey steel scimitars can be created, and can remain until dismissed by the wielder or the black and white scimitars are merged.

So long as one of the main blades, or if two of the grey blades remains in the wielder's possession, the main blades can be thrown up to 120' to strike an opponent and the blade will return in the same round. The non-magical grey scimitars can be juggled, lent to allies or even thrown, though they will jot automatically return but can be dismissed and recreated in the following round.

Should the black and white blades come into the possession of two people, then a battle for possession of the magic item can take place. This can occurs when a thrown scimitar is caught mid-air by an enemy. If either also has a grey blade in hand while the other doesn't, then the one holding two scimitars can command the other main blade to fly to him. If either wielder was juggling his blade when the other opponent calls for the opposite blade, there is a 50% chance that the blade is called while mid-air and immediately flys to the one who called. If both possess an equal number of blades, then a battle of wills can ensue, with control of the weapon passing to the first to success a bend bars roll, while the other fails their bend bar roll.

History

Owned by Norrry Trannyth