The Blade Seller
Blades crafted by fairy smiths (known to be magical). By their nature, they carry a +1 enchantment and another glamour (see table)*. There is no way of perceiving a weapon’s glamour before purchase.
d12
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Type (cost, damage)
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Appearance
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Glamour**
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1
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Knife (100gp, 1d3)
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Delicate spiderweb engravings
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Inflicts +2 damage to mortals.
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2
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Dagger (200gp, 1d4)
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Fine tree branch lattice inlays of gold
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Animals are suspicious of the owner (-2 to reaction rolls).
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3
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Dagger (200gp, 1d4)
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Crackles with blue sparks when touched
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When in darkness, glows like the moon.
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4
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Shortsword (400gp, 1d6)
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Glistening with dewdrops
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Once drawn, cannot be sheathed unless blooded.
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5
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Shortsword (400gp, 1d6)
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Appears old and battered, but is actually perfectly sharp
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3-in-6 chance of the owner not being recognised at a casual glance.
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6
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Rapier (400gp, 1d6)
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Engraved with fine images of unicorns at play
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Become obsessed with thoughts or mortality and entropy.
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7
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Longsword (600gp, 1d8)
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Rimed with frost
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The owner’s natural scent is replaced with that of blossom or cinders.
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8
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Longsword (600gp, 1d8)
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Inlaid secret runes of fairy silver
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+2 to saves vs cold.
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9
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Scimitar (600gp, 1d8)
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Wreathed in moonlight
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The owner suffers from sleeping irregularities -- sleeping for exactly 2d6 hours (roll per night).
(This may be too little or too much.)
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10
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Broadsword (600gp, 1d8)
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Opalescent
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See in moonlight as if it were daylight.
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11
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Bastard sword (800gp, 1d8/2d4)
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Pitch dark metal
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Alignment shifts one step toward Chaotic, over the course of a month.
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12
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Two-handed sword (1,200gp, 1d10)
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Perpetually occluded by shadows
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The owner develops a taste for the refined and decadent. (One who already has such tastes may tend toward depravity.)
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* The proprietor says that “mortals call them magical”, but fairies themselves do not conceive of items such as these as being enchanted.
** True fairies (e.g. elves, grimalkin; not including demi-fey) are unaffected by these glamours.
