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Spiral AthameWeapon 22


UniqueAbjurationAgileArtifactFinesseThrown10VersatileS
Source Pathfinder Core Rulebook
Damage 1d4 Piercing
Type Simple
Weight light

The pommel of this +4 major striking disruptive ghost touch high-grade silver dagger is a black glass orb that contains a tiny blue comet that spirals through the orb's interior. Strikes with the dagger deal an additional 1d8 positive damage to worshippers of Urgathoa and to anyone who has ever created or summoned an undead creature. While the dagger is in your possession, you gain a +4 circumstance bonus to Medicine checks and to Midwifery Lore checks. If you're a worshipper of Pharasma, you gain imprecise lifesense with a range of 60 feet while holding the dagger. If you're undead or a worshipper of Urgathoa, you're Stupefied 4 while holding the dagger.

Despite its utility in combat, the Spiral Athame is intended as a ritual implement, meant to bless newborns and protect them from the predations of undead. If you use the Spiral Athame to cut the umbilical cord of a newly born creature, that creature gains resistance to negative damage equal to their level (minimum 1) and gains a +2 status bonus to saving throws against death effects and necromancy. These bonuses are permanent. Additionally, that creature can never become an undead creature.

Activate Two Actions command, Interact (divine, necromancy)


Effect You point the Spiral Athame at a corpse within 30 feet, shielding it from corruption. The Spiral Athame casts 5th-level Gentle Repose on the corpse.

Activate Two Actions command, interact (divine, necromancy)


Effect You point the Spiral Athame to the sky and pray, warding creatures against undead. This has the effect of 3rd-level Circle of Protection, except it wards against undead creatures rather than creatures of a specified alignment, and the emanation is centered on the Spiral Athame.

Destruction If an undead creature uses the Spiral Athame to slay a psychopomp usher while within the Boneyard, the Spiral Athame's pommel shatters and the Spiral Athame becomes a mundane, high-grade silver dagger with no special abilities.

Traits

Unique

A rules element with this trait is one-of-a-kind. The DC of Recall Knowledge checks related to creatures with this trait is increased by 10.

Abjuration

Effects and magic items with this trait are associated with the abjuration school of magic, typically involving protection or wards.

Agile

The multiple attack penalty you take with this weapon on the second attack on your turn is -4 instead of -5, and -8 instead of -10 on the third and subsequent attacks in the turn.

Finesse

You can use your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier on attack rolls using this melee weapon. You still use your Strength modifier when calculating damage.

Thrown

You can throw this weapon as a ranged attack. A thrown weapon adds your Strength modifier to damage just like a melee weapon does. When this trait appears on a melee weapon, it also includes the range increment.

Versatile

A versatile weapon can be used to deal a different type of damage than that listed in the Damage entry. This trait indicates the alternate damage type. For instance, a piercing weapon that is versatile S can be used to deal piercing or slashing damage. You choose the damage type each time you make an attack.