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EGEND

SEVERIS, THE SCOURGE SLAYER

To add some additional options, sometimes

a couple pages is all you need. And legendary

items are just such an occasion.

Legendary items come from Purple Duck

Games’ line of books introducing and expanding

the concept of what legendary items are.

Everyone knows the classic story of an untested

youth who inherits or acquires an ancient item

that he learns to wield and carries throughout

his career, but such a story does not seem to have

a place in roleplaying games. Characters more

frequently trade in their family heirloom for a

more powerful item, or instead have to spend

time and resources to improve the weapon.

Many attempts have been made to create a type

of item that could grow with the character, an

item that could be used from the very beginning

of a character’s career all the way until retiring as

a living legend. Purple Duck Games successfully

achieved this with their Legendary Items series

of books. These books immediately gave us at

Dreamscarred Press ideas for some psionic

legendary items to join the ranks.

With the

Psionic Items of Legend

series, you

get one legendary item of a psionic nature. Each

book will present a new legendary item detailing

that item’s history, requirements to attune the

item, and the item’s abilities.

Psionic Items of Legend

Legendary Item Rules

Legendary items follow a standard format and

set of rules, as detailed below.

• Legendary armor, shields, or weapons have

a base legendary value which is usually a +1

enhancement bonus, such as a

+1 shield,

avail-

able even if the wearer is not attuned.

•

For all other legendary items, the legendary

item has a base item ability that the wearer

can use even if he does not meet the require-

ments

•

Each legendary item has requirements neces-

sary to attune it to the wearer.

•

If by 4th level for armor, shields, and weapons,

or 5th level for all other legendary items, the

wearer of the legendary item has met the

requirements needed to attune the item, it

increases in power to its second item level.

• Increasing a legendary item’s power level

occurs automatically once the wielder has

gained the required wielder minimum level

and is attuned to the item. For armor, shields,

and weapons, this is every two character

levels, and for all other legendary items, for

every five character levels.

•

Any psi-like abilities gained through the use

of the legendary item are based on the wear-

er’s highest mental characteristic (Int, Wis, or

Cha).

•

The manifester level for any effects of the item

are based on the wearer’s total Hit Dice.

• Only one owner can be attuned to a legendary

item at any one time. If the owner dies or loses

the item for more than a year and one day, the

item is free to become attuned to another. If

the owner is returned to life, he can immedi-

ately reattune to the item.

•

A character can only be attuned to one legend-

ary item at a time.

S, 

S S

As long as there have been tales of the tentacled

nightmares known as phrenic scourges, there

have been legends of an axe named

Severis,

axe which made its wielder impervious to the

dreaded creatures, but that draws the phrenic

scourges to it like iron to a lodestone. Some

say that within the axe is the energy of the

progenitor of the phrenic scourge race, and

that the scourges are able to sense that energy.

Others contend that within the axe is the secret

to destroy the phrenic scourges and all of their

ilk forever, and that the scourges learned of the

threat and developed ways to find it. The more

sinister rumors claim that should the scourges

ever manage to unlock the secrets of the axe,

that they will gain the power to enslave every

intelligent being.

Whatever the truth, the history of the axe has

always been one where its wielder decimated

the forces of the phrenic scourges, yet was

eventually overwhelmed by the constant attacks

by the scourge forces and their use of subterfuge.

The last known wielder of

Severis

was a half-

giant named Urlac, who, before he came to

wield

Severis,

would travel the lands liberating

slaves and fighting dictators. His successes in

these endeavors are unknown, for little was

recorded of him until he gained fame during a

particularly effective invasion by the phrenic

scourge, when village after village fell under the

scourges’ control.

The scourge infiltrators chose to target smaller

villages first, using caravans and traders to

work their way into larger settlements as they

consolidated the smaller groups. Eventually, the

scourges were breeding so rapidly that for every

phrenic scourge that was found and destroyed,

two more defenders fell under the sway of the

scourge.

How Urlac came to wield

Severis

is still a

mystery, but he led a contingent of phrenic

slayers against the hordes of tentacled monsters

Bonus Feats

Many of the legendary items presented grant

bonus feats. Unless otherwise noted, these bonus

feats remain in effect as long as the owner is

physically wearing the item. The wearer does

not need to meet the prerequisites for these

bonus feats.

Psionic Items of Legend

and their unwilling slaves, freeing those he could

from the painful fate of being scourge breeding

hosts, and ending the suffering of those he could

not. Urlac’s presence, or more accurately, the

presence of

Severis,

caused the phrenic scourge

to abandon their expansion efforts and focus

exclusively on gaining the axe, which allowed

Urlac’s allies to stem the tide and free some of

the settlements from scourge control. As those

allies were inexorably cut down, Urlac withdrew

from the throngs of tentacled beasts in an effort

to regroup. His actions instead caused the

scourges to pursue him with more zeal, and his

whereabouts, and those of

Severis,

are unknown

to this day.

REQUIREMENTS

To successfully wield

Severis

to its fullest

potential, a character must fulfill the following

requirements.

Base Attack Bonus:

Feats:

Power Attack

Skills:

Knowledge (psionics) 4 ranks

Severis, the Scourge Slayer

Item

Level

Wielder

Minimum

Level

Abilities

+1 battleaxe

Scourge resistance

+1 scourgebane battleaxe

Implant protection

+2 scourgebane battleaxe

Power resistance

+3 scourgebane battleaxe

Personal barred mind

+3 scourgebane battleaxe

Phrenic liberation

Scourge Resonance (Su):

When the 2nd

weapon level is reached, the psionic power

Severis

can detect the presence of phrenic

scourges, but likewise emits an energy that

phrenic scourges can detect. The wielder of

Severis

can detect phrenic scourges, or those

of their ilk, within 30 ft. as a free action. This

does not allow the wielder to locate the creature

with pinpoint accuracy, but only detect that

there is a member of the phrenic scourge family

somewhere within 30 ft. Phrenic scourges and

their ilk, however, can detect the presence of

Severis

within 100 ft. and know the direction of

the axe once they are within 30 ft.

Scourgebane:

At 3rd weapon level,

Severis

gains the scourgebane weapon special ability

(detailed below).

Implant Protection (Su):

Starting at the 4th

weapon level, the wielder of

Severis

gains an

additional Fortitude save every round after a

successful implant attack to fight off the larva

(using the same DC as the original save). If any

of the Fortitude saves are successful, the larva

dies, saving the wielder from death from the

larva reaching his brain.

Power Resistance:

At the 6th weapon level,

the wielder of

Severis

gains power resistance 15

while wielding the axe.

Psionic Items of Legend

Personal Barred Mind (Ps):

Once the 8th

weapon level has been reached, three times

per day, the wielder of

Severis

can use

personal

barred mind

as a psi-like ability with a manifester

level equal to the wielder’s character level.

Phrenic Liberation (Su):

Upon reaching the

10th weapon level, if a creature struck by

Severis

is under the control of a creature of the phrenic

scourge family, including the enthrall ability

of a puppeteer, the

mind control

psi-like ability

of the phrenic scourge, or similar, the damage

is empathically redirected to that controlling

creature, and the struck creature is unharmed.

scourge that survives but does not become a

phrenic scourge itself.

new PSIonIc weaPon aBILIty

Scourgebane:

When used against a creature

of the phrenic scourge family, the weapon’s

enhancement bonus is +2 better than its actual

bonus. It also deals an extra 2d6 points of damage

against the creature. Creatures of the phrenic

scourge family who try to wield the axe receive

one negative level that cannot be removed by

any means short of a

reality revision

or similar

effect and are stunned for one minute. The

negative level lasts for one hour, after which

time it fades.

Moderate metacreativity; ML 10th; Craft

Magic Arms and Armor,

modify matter;

Price +1

bonus.

PhRenIc ScouRge ILk

The powers of

Severis

are not merely tied to

the phrenic scourge creature itself, but also to

all creatures related to the phrenic scourge.

This includes puppeteers and flesh harrowers,

as well as any creature implanted by the phrenic

Psionic Items of Legend

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