Halloween is this month. And while I don’t usually do holidays I know a lot of you do. And a lot of you go extra hard on this one. So I wanted to revisit an idea I had a few years back.
Centuries ago a powerful death knight Lord Kharos gathered a powerful undead force and invaded the prosperous agrarian kingdom of Arceel. The peaceful kingdom was no match for his might and quickly fell. He slaughtered the inhabitants and raised them as his undead thralls. The formerly prosperous kingdom became a mockery of it’s former life, a kingdom of death where the plentiful farmlands produced nothing. The forces of light eventually gathered a large enough force and mounted a counterattack, lead by the Paladin Sir Arris. After a long and bitter war, Kharos was finally defeated, slain by a small strike force of heroes who entered his chamber and defeated him and his advisors while the death knight’s armies were busy in the field. His armor was then taken and melted down, recast into five weapons. Five warriors of light sacrificed themselves in an attempt to cleanse the corrupted essence of the metal and bind the remains of Kharos’s essence inside of the weapons. Their souls gave life to the dagger Sunspike, the battleaxe Shadow Splitter, the mace Bonecrush, the longsword Harrower, and the greatsword Corpse Bane – the Dead Steel Regalia, weapons that would stand against the power of undeath. You’ll meet each of these weapons individually over the coming days. So make sure you’re following me if you don’t want to miss anything.
Ben Erickson
Paging Through the Core Rulebook 