Fire Blades

By Todd Weaver (olafred@nb.net) for the Night Rangers camp

Level 4 fetish

Gnosis

7

Description

Initially created 200 years ago by the Get of Fenris to rival the Silver klaives of the Silver Fangs, these weapons were too unreliable for common use, but suit the ranger's needs perfectly.

Fire blades are often large Claymore like swords or battle Axes forged of a combination of Iron and Obsidian with a volcano spirit bound to it. These blades hit for Str+6 damage plus 2 dice of fire damage. By expending 1 gnosis point and making a sucessful strike the Fire blade does an additional 4 dice as a small burst of fire erupts from the blade on contact. But these weapons do have a drawback; whenever the firestrike power is used or the weapon strikes for over 8 dice of damage (not counting fire damage). The wielder rolls 3 dice against a difficulty of 7. If he makes the roll then the weapon suffers no damage; if he fails the weapon becomes riddled with stress cracks and strikes for -2 dice until repaired (either a fire elemental or a Get that knows how can repair one). If he botchs or fails 3 rolls before the weapon is fixed it it shatters and a new one must be forged.