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Pillars of Eternity eGuide Equipment - Weapons Melee Weapons

Great Swords

Broad-bladed two-handed sword.
Bonus: Best of Slash/Pierce

Great Sword

Interrupt: 50 (Strong)

Damage: 14-20 Slash/Pierce (Best) vs. Deflection

Value: 10cp

The great sword is renowned for its ability to cause deadly wounds even against terrible beasts. Though it is a relatively slow weapon and requires the use of both hands, it is truly devastating when used by a skilled warrior.

Fine Great Sword

Interrupt: 50 (Strong)

Damage: 14-20 Slash/Pierce (Best) vs. Deflection

Fine: +4 Accuracy, x1.15 All Damage

Value: 410cp

Exceptional Great Sword

Interrupt: 50 (Strong)

Damage: 14-20 Slash/Pierce (Best) vs. Deflection

Exceptional: +8 Accuracy, x1.3 All Damage

Value: 810cp

The Temaperacl

Interrupt: 50 (Strong)

Damage: 14-20 Slash/Pierce (Best) vs. Deflection

Fine: +4 Accuracy, x1.15 All Damage

Corrosive Lash: +25% Corrode Damage

Overbearing: Crits can inflict Prone

Value: 1210cp

Tidefall

Interrupt: 50 (Strong)

Damage: 14-20 Slash/Pierce (Best) vs. Deflection

Superb: +12 Accuracy, x1.45 All Damage

Draining: 20% of Damage restored as Endurance

Wounding: x0.2 Damage inflicted Over Time

Value: 2010cp

Rauatai harbormaster tired of officiating disputes between the various sailors, merchants, and pirates that daily made use of his port. The rowdy visitors caused trouble with the locals and with each other, leaving the harbormaster forever cleaning up their messes.

He was large, even for an aumaua, but soft-spoken. So he commissioned a local smith to forge the kind of sword that would do the talking for him. He took to patrolling the docks with it, relying on his own towering presence and his formidable blade to silence most arguments. He issued a mandate that any visiting sailors at port that did not conduct their business peaceably and depart with the tides would find themselves subject to his own mercenary justice. Disagreements were settled quickly and quietly after that.

Gilt Blade of Lorn

Interrupt: 50 (Strong)

Damage: 14-20 Slash/Pierce (Best) vs. Deflection

Fine: +4 Accuracy, x1.15 All Damage

Value: 410cp

The Hours of St. Rumbalt

Interrupt: 50 (Strong)

Damage: 14-20 Slash/Pierce (Best) vs. Deflection

Annihilation: +0.5 to Crit Damage multiplier

Overbearing: Crits can inflict Prone

Accurate 3: +12 Accuracy

Value: 1410cp

Saint Rumbalt was among the first of the Eothasian pilgrims to take up the Emperor’s offer of resettlement in the distant territory of Readceras. A dedicated priest of the Shining God, Rumbalt was regarded as a leader in his community, known both for his unwavering dedication to his congregation and his stern vigilance against lapses in doctrine. What survives of his sermons reflects this duality, for he emphasized the redemptive power of the faith even as he warned against the dire punishments awaiting those who rejected Eothas’ beneficence.

The colonization efforts brought Eothasian settlers into direct conflict with the native orlan populations, and Rumbalt was among those credited with routing several brutal attacks upon the settlement. Ultimately, however, Rumbalt was mortally wounded during a violent raid. Witnesses claimed that upon the moment of his death, Rumbalt’s body was suffused by an overwhelming burst of light, knocking the remaining orlan warriors flat or else scattering them back into the forest.

Accounts arose of Rumbalt’s final hours, describing the great miracles which were observed to have occurred during the day preceding his death. Eothas, it was said, had informed Rumbalt of his fate, and the priest accepted this gladly and without fear, for he knew that death was only the first step in his rebirth. He subsequently marked each of his final 27 hours with a miraculous act, such that his congregation would know of the gift Eothas had bestowed upon him, and continue Rumbalt’s work in his stead.

Rather than stanch the flow of Eothasian settlers, Rumbalt’s death only encouraged more pilgrims to venture across the sea, eager to set their eyes upon the final resting place of Eothas’ favored servant. The Hours of Saint Rumbalt was forged in dedication to this patron saint of the resettlement, and its blade is inscribed with markings counting the 27 hours before Rumbalt’s passing. In such manner was the blade imbued with the saint’s power. It was said that a man might kneel before the sword and know with precision the moment of his death.

Justice

Interrupt: 50 (Strong)

Damage: 14-20 Slash/Pierce (Best) vs. Deflection

Fine: +4 Accuracy, x1.15 All Damage

Crushing Lash: +50% Crush Damage

Value: 810cp

This sword was once used by a paladin as an executioner’s blade during a long-forgotten crusade. Over the years the paladin slew countless heretics, but as time wore on his fervor slowly turned to fear at the unending evil he saw growing in his homeland. Tired of the myopic and ineffective approach of his superiors, the paladin swore to cleanse the corruption from the hearts of his people and took it upon himself to execute any who consorted with heathens. After finding a heretic hiding within a small village, the paladin put all its inhabitants to the sword for aiding the sinner. That night the paladin woke to his sword being driven through his own chest, having been betrayed by his own men, who were guilt-ridden for their own complicity in his atrocities.

This large sword seems to be covered in rust, but on closer inspection the brown stains on the blade are, in fact, dried blood. Apart from the size, the sword seems plain, its only ornamentation is hidden under the black leather wrapping on the ricasso, where an image of Woedica has been etched. Scratches on the etching indicate that someone once tried to clumsily remove it.