Phrixus' Longsword

The story as it is told

Though Phrixus' longsword is currently on the surface of Vyril and actively pinning a lower deity to the surface of the plane, the Dameskans don't know this. The story as it has been told, recorded, and passed down is that of Phrixus battling Vesta, the flamekin god, and besting him in combat. Slaying the beast-god and returning to his home plane. Leaving out, entirely, that Vesta cannot truly die - or he will be reborn - and so Phrixus left the flamekin god trapped in a state of ever dying.

There is one flamekin left alive but he sticks to his dying god's island.

Mechanics & Inner Workings

Phrixus' longsword is a divine weapon on Vyril. Thus, its power and capabilities are widely unknown. The sword itself is nearly 30ft tall, meant to be weilded by a larger than life god, and sheathed in the body of a large bird, whose body smolders like embers of a fire struggling to either come back to life,or go out completely. There is a certain electrified sense of being near the blade and any mortal attempting to weild it, if they could even begin to pick it up, would find themselves overcome by the energy in the blade. They would either become enveloped in the holy fire of Phrixus namesake or smolder away to ash like the bird that is pinned in place.

The longsword will continue to exist, and work, so long as Phrixus maintains his divinity.

Significance

The longsword is Phrixus' preferred weapon and is frequently used as his symbol, usually set over a sun outlined in gold. Several centuries ago in Dameskan history, they were losing the war on Yandelar. Not to any mundane threat, but to a race of phoenix-human hybrids. A sort of were-phoenix that had arrived from Ignus. These flame-kin weren't suseptible to the Dameskan's fire and could regenerate from their own ashes if they fell in battle. There didn't seem to be a way to defeat them.

In a rare moment of divine intervention, Phrixus left his realm of Valiance and stuck down the flamekin with his own longsword. Pinning the progenator of the flamekin, Vesta, to the plane of Vyril, where the lower deity is in a state of ever dying. Unable to completely die and turn to ash, to be reborn, but unable to free himself and return his people to life from the ashes of the slaughter that ensued once he was pinned in place.

This saved the Dameskan people and allowed them, with time, to flourish and resume their campaign against the rest of Yandelar.

Item type

Unique Artifact

Rarity

There is only one.

Dimensions

30ft long

Base Price

Priceless