Weapon (Glaive), rare (requires attunement)
Forged in a place where even steel grows brittle, Hoarwrought is a long-hafted glaive crowned with a blade that looks carved from living frost. Its metal is pale and glassy, veined with rime that never melts. Fine filigree along the socket resembles creeping ice patterns, and a constant chill hangs in the air around it—your breath fogs, and sound seems to dull in its presence.
Despite its beauty, the weapon is brutally heavy, as though the cold itself has weight.
Properties
- You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
- When you hit with an attack using Hoarwrought, the target takes an additional 1d6 cold damage.
Strength Requirement
This weapon demands physical might to control its unnatural heft.
- If your Strength score is lower than 15, you have disadvantage on attack rolls made with Hoarwrought.
Biting Cold
Hoarwrought sheds a faint, pale-blue light in a 10-foot radius. The area within 5 feet of the blade feels numbing and frigid.
- Nonmagical flames within 5 feet of the blade are extinguished.
- Water that touches the blade begins to freeze instantly.
Weapon Type
Hoarwrought functions as a glaive (heavy, reach, two-handed; 1d10 slashing damage).
Lore
Weapons like Hoarwrought are said to be forged in the heart of ancient glaciers or in the courts of frost giants. The enchantment binds not just cold, but stillness—the slowing of blood, breath, and motion itself. Many who face it describe the same sensation:
Not pain.
Silence.