Strelitzia

The Bird of Paradise will guide mortalkind alone to the Garden of Eden

A rapier with an unforgettable place in history. As the preferred weapon of Eris the leader of the Antitheist movement, it is known to have killed one of the Old Divines as well as nearly a dozen New Divines during the Antitheist Crusade.

Strelitzia's Disappearance

The Antitheist Crusade did not end in profound victory or defeat as the public expected. Instead, the Antitheist Order was said to have been disbanded shortly after mobilizing to find the Old Divine Sorasen and the entire army under its banner disappeared without a trace. The only member of the Order that returned to Cathedral Town was Eris, who claimed to know nothing about the disappearance and retired from fighting forever, dying at only 48. While her unenchanted armor remains on display in Cathedral Town, Strelitzia vanished from its display in the year 542 PT. Some people suggest a fortune seeking thief took it, while others believe a religious zealot wanted to spite the Antitheist cause by stealing its symbol. Stranger yet is the theory that Strelitzia itself left on its own to finish the job its owner set out to do.

Originally just a flying basket rapier, Eris had Strelitzia augmented during the Antitheist Crusade to make it even more useful in combat. Augmenting it with blessed metals and arcane runes, the new version of Strelitzia has a blade of gold and a basket that resembles the flower of a bird of paradise, a symbol which became synonymous with the Antitheist Cause.

Eris once said that Strelitzia was a priceless gift she received from new friends during a turning point in her life and that she always feared losing it, and that sentimentality extended to her combat expertise. Accounts of Eris depict her as only drawing Strelitzia to strike a decisive blow, using as many as a dozen other fighting techniques to hold her own until then.

With its new enchantments Strelitzia was better able to pierce and damage creatures that did not originate from the material plane, and it began to earn its reputation as a weapon that existed to kill Divines. Rumor has it that Strelitzia gained such a reputation during the crusade that it gained sentience through Divine Entropy and began to act on its own. Other rumors believe that Strelitzia has the mind and soul of Eris herself embedded into its enchantments. Whatever the truth may be, faithful individuals in the presence of the weapon report a profound hatred emanating from it.