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Runeforged Weapons

Aura strong (two variable schools); CL 13th Slot none; Price +2 bonus; Weight N/A Each runeforged weapon opposes a school of magic. The wielder gains a +2 morale bonus on all saving throws against spells from the weapon’s opposed magic. All runeforged weapons are, to a certain degree, empathic. They enhance sin or virtue in those who wield them, so a fighter armed with a dominant weapon becomes more domineering than before, for example. Anyone wielding a runeforged weapon takes a –2 penalty on all Diplomacy checks, as her vices or virtues are magnified at the expense of personality. A creature that carries two runeforged weapons (even those of the same type) takes a –5 penalty on all attack rolls, Will saving throws, and skill checks, as her mind is constantly assailed by multiple empathic urges. Each of the seven Thassilonian schools of magic is opposed by a single runeforged weapon quality—each of these being the combination of that school’s opposition schools. The correct component ...

Weapons of Power (Kuthona (XII) 8th-9th, 4712 AR)

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Tunnels.  The chambers beyond are little more than vast, empty caverns. In order to manifest a key, the heroes subjected the stone heads of the Sihedron Circle to a spell effect of a school identical to the one each runelord related to. When the proper key from the Sihedron Circle outside was placed in the proper pillar’s keyhole inside the frozen cathedral and then turned in two complete revolutions, the pillar began to hum and glow softly. Once the pillar was glowing, its key vanished. When all seven pillars were active at the same time, the central pillar began glowing and rippled with a vortex of light that combined all seven of the surrounding colors. At the pillar’s base, the vortex whirled in on itself like a vertically aligned whirlpool, opening into a 7-foot-wide circular portal through which could be faintly seen a long tunnel. When the heroes stepped through this portal they stepped into Runeforge. Runeforge The approach from the portal is along a 10-foot-wide stone tunn...