Sporeshiv

Weapon (spear), rare (requires attunement)
In the glimmering feywilds, the strong as steel oakarm trees have but one real nemesis: spread of powerful fungus that can bring down. Blight knot is a pervasive and persistent fungus that creeps through a tree’s vascular systems before blooming out, causing portions of the tree’s trunk to expand and swell from the inside outward, breaking down and cracking open the bark to make the tree vulnerable. Clever Sylvan craftspeople have developed a means of enchanting fey wood weapons to host this fungus and inject the necrotic spores under a pierced foes’ flesh.
This weapon has 3 charges and regains all expended charges after it spends 8 hours planted in the earth.
Withering Spore: When you hit a creature with an attack using this spear you can use a bonus action to speak its command word, expending a charge and ejecting a rapidly growing blight knot spore into the target. As a bonus action on subsequent turns, you can will the spore to grow, consuming the target from the inside out. The target takes 1d8 necrotic damage and deals only half-damage with weapon attacks that use Strength until the end of its next turn.
A creature that hosts a spore can make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ridding itself of the spore on a success. Creatures that don’t have flesh or that are immune to necrotic damage are immune to this effect. If you use a bonus action to inject a second spore while another persists within a host, the first one dies and the target it no longer affected.
You have a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
Proficiency with a spear allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it.

History

This spear was owned and possessed by the druid, Moireach O'Byrnel, who protected a Moonwell on the isle of Braeddon and occasionally sold poisonous plants to Bronwyn. After Rivariin's mention, Talshod, entered the Feywild through a portal at the Moonwell, the grove was attacked. Rivariin and Bronwyn survived, but Moireach did not. Rivariin took the spear from Moireach.

Item type

Magical

Weight

3 lbs