Stiletto, Murderer's Blade

Murderer's Blade
Magic Item [Very Rare]
Rank: 4 (Potency 40)
Properties
  • +3 bonus to Attack and Armor Negation (ArN)
  • +2 Item to Crit Damage per Rank
Special Actions
Bleed
Free Action
Limitation: Once per day
Trigger: You hit a creature with a Melee Attack using the Murderer's Blade.
Effect: The target suffers ongoing 10 Bleed damage every 10 segments [SE, ST 4d10 vs CON].
Allocation: 5 Resolve
Aura: Minor Combat or Enchantment
"My blade drank deep this day... the lifeblood flows from my model and my exquisite brush fills the canvas"
——Xanjikar, the Freer of Lives

Description

The Murderer's Blade appears much like an ordinary stiletto. It has a thin, extremely sharp blade attached to a long obsidian handle with veins of red running down to a black skull pommel. It also features a small serrated crossguard, not meant to defend the wielder's hand, but more to function as a secondary blade to help tear open a fresh wound when the weapon is driven all the way up to the hilt inside a victim's body.

Lore

Some believe this weapon has a will of its own, for throughout history it has been found in the hands of only the most depraved of killers, warriors and assassins. Those slayers of humanoids who consider murder an art form. Or perhaps it is the Murderer's Blade that in fact transforms the wielder into such a person over the time. In any case, very few owners of this weapon live for very long when they come to possess it. The Murderer's Blade is always hungry, and it cares not who it feeds on.