Frost Brand

Frost Brand
Magic Item [Very Rare, Cold]
Rank: 8 (Potency 80)
Properties
  • +3 Item bonus to attacks.
  • Against creatures with the Fire keyword, gain a +5 Item bonus to attacks.
  • You may choose to convert damage dealt by this weapon to Cold damage. When you do, gain a +2 WD Item bonus to damage.
  • Gain Damage Reduction (10) to Cold damage.
Special Actions
Chilling Aura [Cold]
Free Action
Potency (MR): 1d8+8 (Yes)
Limitation: Once per day
Duration: 1 moment
Effect: Frost Brand generates a debilitating Aura (15ft) of freezing. Creatures you choose within the aura are subject to the following effects:

Wall of Ice [Cold]
Standard Action [REC 5]
Potency (MR): 1d8+8 (No)
Limitation: Twice per day
Range: 100ft
Effect: You create a wall of frigid ice in a location within rance. The shape and size of the wall are ultimately up to you, provided it does not exceed the maximum area. The wall must be anchored on a solid surface and cannot be created in a space occupied by a creature (though the hemisphere may be created around a creature). The wall has a Durability score of 20 (and is vulnerable to Fire damage as normal). Creatures that attack the wall suffer 5d6 Cold damage. Once the wall is breached, creatures may move through it as normal, through they suffer 5d6 Cold damage as they move through.
Allocation: 5 Stamina, 2 Resolve
Aura: Strong Conjuration or Creation
"In the halls of Great Boaldin, the Frost Lord, it was forged, old and burdensome from the day it was created. Yet somehow its icy grasp grows stronger with every passing century"
——-History of the Shattered North, Chapter XXXVII, Ancient Artifacts of the Tundra

Description

This Broad Sword is thick and heavy. The blade appears chipped, ancient and worn, the steel dull and stained. The hand guard and grip are made of black steel with straps of dark blue leather on the handle that are oddly cool to the touch. Inlaid in the pommel is a crystallized point of ice that constantly generates an icy fog. When the blade's abilities are used, thick and razor sharp veins of ice run along the blade, wrapping along the dulled edges and nicks, transforming the archaic weapon into a wicked tool of devastation

Lore

Frost Brand was crafted by a Frost Giant warlord thousands of years ago, not as a weapon intended for humanoid use, but as a gift to a great White Dragon he sought to bribe into his service. As fate would have it, the dragon was slain by the wielder of an equally powerful fire weapon known as Sunrazor not a week after the creature received Frost Brand. To make matters worse, after looting the dragon's hoard its cave collapsed from the structural damage of the battle. This buried the dragon, warrior and both weapons beneath a mountain of ice. Sunrazor's fiery properties allowed it to melt its way out nearly a thousand years before Frost Brand was discovered by a party of adventurers by pure happenstance. By that time the two weapons were far removed from each other and Frost Brand's current owner is unknown, although some suspect it has been reclaimed by a descendant of the Frost Giant that created it.