The Shard

Description: The Shard is a jagged piece of Maizina, darker than shadow and around 1 foot in length, slight veins of gold and silver can be seen under the surface.
Attunement Quest: You must kill something using this shard.
Statistics: Whilst attuned the Shard the user has the following benefits:
Empowered Magic: While holding the Shard, you can use it as a Spellcasting focus, and it gives you a +1 bonus to your spell attack rolls.
Enhanced Strength: Your Strength score increases by 3 while the shard is on your person. The shard can't raise your Strength score above 22.
Curse: Attuning to this item extends its curse to you. You remain cursed until you are targeted by a Remove Curse spell or similar magic or until the shard is returned to where it came from.
The shard's curse causes misfortune to befall you. When you roll a 1 on an Attack Roll, Ability Check, or Saving Throw, roll on the Shard Misfortunes table to determine what misfortune befalls you. For as long as this misfortune lasts, no other shard misfortunes befall you.

d6	Misfortune
1	You accidentally cut yourself with the Shard and are Poisoned until next dawn
2	You experience a vision of an ancient calamity- a beautiful landscape being wrought and destroyed by a giant creature- and are stunned until the end of your next turn
3	For a few seconds, the ground shakes under you turning black and hearing a roar underneath. You and each creature within 10ft of you must succeed on a DC16 Dexterity Saving Throw or be knocked Prone
4	The Shard releases three lances of void that target one random creature within 30ft of you. If no target exists, you become the target. Each lance hits automatically and deals 5 (1d6+1) Force damage to the target.
5	Until the next dawn, all non-humanoids with an Intelligence score of 3 or lower are hostile to you.
6	A feeling of tragedy and disruption follows you. Until the next dawn you have disadvantage on all Ability Checks and Saving Throws.

Mechanics & Inner Workings

Something terrible is at work with this, not merely the Arcane but something else as well.

Manufacturing process

Break Stuff

History

Found lodged inside of the central statue of the Bellcurve pleasure garden and was only accessible after attaching the necessary items from the founders of Bellcurve.

Significance

It's a shard, likely taken from a larger piece. I wonder what that larger piece would be?

Rarity

Rare (Wondrous Item): This is but a piece of something bigger, but already holds unnatural power.

Weight

20lbs

Dimensions

300mm x 22 (in places as it is jagged)

Base Price

???

Raw materials & Components

The entire Shard looks to be made of Maizina but it's feeling is slightly more organic than others.

Tools

It takes something very powerful to shatter normal Maizina, this isn't likely to be any different.