Weapon

Legendary Artifact Requires Attunement

Terminus is a magic quarterstaff that grants a +4 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. When you hit with an attack roll using it, the target takes an additional 1d8 radiant and 1d8 necrotic damage. The bearer of this staff has an important role in the multiverse: their beliefs and judgements, conscious or unconscious, shape what happens to a soul after death.

Otherworldly Resilience. While attuned to this staff, your Constitution score is 20. This effect does not occur if your Constitution is already 20 or higher without it. Any time you make a death saving throw you may treat a d20 roll of 9 or lower as a 10. Finally, you cease aging for the duration of your attunement and become immune to age-affecting magical effects.

Severance. If you attack a living creature with this weapon and score a 20 on the attack roll, Terminus severs their soul from their body. The target must make a DC 18 Constitution saving throw, dying instantly on a failure. You choose the destination plane for the permanent afterlife of any living creature slain in this way.

Transcendance. While attuned to this staff, you may use a bonus action to allow the river of souls to flow through your form. While in this state, your ki points return to their maximum value at the end of each of your turns and you have resistance to all damage. If you do not have ki points, you are treated as though you have two levels in the Monk class for the duration, gaining a maximum ki of 2 and access to the Flurry of Blows, Patient Defence and Step of the Wind class features.

After a number of rounds equal to your Constitution modifier, being in this transcendant state harms your body. At the end of each of your turns after this, you take 4d8 radiant and 4d8 necrotic damage.

Binding. While this staff is on your person, you may use an action to shape souls into a temporary spirit guardian. This guardian lasts for up to 10 minutes, or until it is destroyed. Once this feature of the staff is used, it may not be used in this way again until dawn.

Travelling the Waters. While this staff is on your person, you may use an action to cast the spell plane shift to any section of the Conduit of All Souls. Once this feature of the staff is used, you may not use it again until a day has passed.

Versatile. This weapon can be used with one or two hands. A damage value in parentheses appears with the property—the damage when the weapon is used with two hands to make a melee attack.

Terminus is a cosmic artifact, an item that exists simply because the multiverse does and dictates how certain systems in the cosmos work. It appears as a tightly gnarled wooden branch, but closer inspection reveals that it is not clear whether it is made of petrified wood or particularly detailed stonework.

At times, a ghostly scythe blade is visible. This blade is far more significant than at first glance: it is the source of the Conduit of All Souls, the spirit river that transports beings to the afterlife. It may be struck into the ground of any location, transfering this property to that specific point for a minimum of ten years.

The wielder of Terminus is surrounded by a palpable aura of authority as well as a very faint, white halo.

Cost: Priceless
Weight: 8lb