Khilat Moonblade - Elian

Dates: -9,000 to -8,406 DR (594 Years)

Powers

Moon Blade

The sword has properties similar to the Moon Blade spell. When melee is engaged, silvery moonfire baths the blade making it effective against creatures only hit by +4 or better weapons. Its strike drains vitality or life force causing an additional 4 points of damage. Undead are visibly wounded by the moonfire; their substance boils away from its touch, and they suffer double damage (weapons base+magic bonus+4 times 2) per blow. 

On a successful strike against an opponent, the moonglow temporarily scrambles their magic. On the round after being hit, victims cannot cast spells or call on any spell-like abilities. Existing spells cease to function for the round, and magical items wielded by the victim do not function either. 



Resizing

The sword can shift between metal and moon light, and can alter its size from 1-5 feet in length and can assume any standard sword form in that range including a dagger, short sword, long sword, bastard sword and great-sword. It wields as a short sword with regard to encumbrance, weight, speed factor and ease of use, and always gains the Elven racial short sword benefit. Anyone proficient in any of its forms is proficient with this blade. The sword's shape can be changed at will, taking as little as half a second to resize; and the sword will often do so during combat if its wielder is proficient in more than one of its forms. Transforming between shapes restores the weapon to perfection, removing any nicks or damage; effective even when shattered and all the pieces are in physical contact.



Moon Light

The swords ability to shed light is greatly enhanced. The blade can replicate moon light of any intensity and season. It has qualities similar to the 2nd level priest spell, Eilistraee's Moonfire.

• The radius of light can be changed from an aura immediately around the blade, to a globe of light between 5' and 35' radius, following 5' increments. When reduced to an aura around the blade, it can also for an aura surrounding the wielder. A globe of illumination can include numerous motes of light, up to 7 motes per 5' radius, as desired.
• The intensity can range from a faint glow to a clear, bright (but not blinding) light, equivalent to that of a full moon.
• The color of the moon light can vary in hue as desired: blue-while. soft green. white. and silver. Orange to red can be selected when emulating an eclipsed moon.

Motes of Moonlight

Seven times a day, the sword can generate 50 glowing silvery motes of pale moonlight which remain in place for up to 2 hours per casting, with multiple casting extending the effect for a continuous period, unless dismissed early or negated by magical means. The motes can form a line extending 150' or fill a 30' radius circle or sphere. Priests of Eilistraee, Sehanine and Selune standing among the motes are treated as if they were standing in the light of a full moon. The wielder can detect Elven spirits within the area of motes, including those contained in objects, magic items, animals, plants or free roaming.

Moonfire

The light can detached from the blade and sent as a cloud of up to 14 cubic feet of radiant light in any direction at 40' per round. The light is strong enought to read by and is treated as moonlight as strong as a full moon. The light lasts 14 rounds once it has left physical contact with the blade or wielder.

Once per day, the drifting moonfire can be set afire, unleashing a 10' wide and 30' long line of Moonfire directly away from the sword. The effect is equivalent to the 5th level Moonfire spell granted by Sahanine. The fire does 14 points of damage to any undead caught in its path, and 2d4 points of damage to any living creature. It reveals shape changed or polymorphed creatures, forcing them to their true form on a failed save, otherwise outlining them. All electrical attacks in the path are negated or deflected for 1d4+2 rounds.

Interactions

• Teleport - The Shadow Sword cancels the moonfire features of the moonblade during melee combat.
• Chromatic Blade - The Motes of Moonlight can shine any color but lose their moonlight quality.
• Flame Tongue - Flaming and Sunshine cancel the moonfire features of the moonblade during melee combat.

The Moonfire blessing of Selune enhances the Moonfire to last 22 rounds, and the flash cause 22 points of damage to undead in a 50' length path. The Motes of Moonlight increase in count to 75 with a radius of 45' or line of 220' for a duration of 3 hours. 



Appearance

Rune

Moon - on front. 


Feature

A layer of silver over a wider layer of blue mithral plating on the sword's cutting edge creates a halo effect around the darkmetal blade core. The moonglow of the blade comes from the shiny halo area and the moonstone. Near the base of the blade, a couple of inches above the cross guard, the blade is flared in a circle with the image of the moon. Imbedded in the blade to be visible from both sides, just below the moon circle, is a 1/2 inch round clear moonstone that always displays an image of the moon in its current phase. 


Rite

Lord Elian gathered 3 Starsingers and 7 Knights of the 7th Order of the Seven Sacred Mysteries, along with the silver dragon Khilat. The ceremony was held in an ancient moon temple high in the Star Mounts, under a bright full moon and clear sky in a field of Motes of Moonlight and a Moonbeam spell. Using a quart of Khilat's dragon blood, the Starsingers called Moonfire onto the alter to bathe Lord Elian and the sword. Each of the knights called forth Moon Blade spells in the shapes of their preferred swords and dubbed Lord Elian and the sword which absorbed each of the seven magic blades. Lord Elian cast Detect Spirits at the same moment his own spirit was bound to the blade and he watched it pass into the moonstone.