Axe of Forced Life

Price 45,310 gp; Slot none; CL 9th; Weight 6 lbs.; Aura moderate conjuration

DESCRIPTION

This +3 battleaxe has a well-worn haft and a blackened blade etched with an ouroboros. An axe of forced life briefly disrupts the damage reduction of undead creatures. Once per round when the wielder strikes an undead creature that has DR/bludgeoning, DR/good, DR/magic, or DR/piercing, the wielder can reduce the target’s damage reduction by 5 points (to a minimum of 0). This effect lasts for 1 round, and reduces only the types of damage reduction listed. On a confirmed critical hit, the wielder may reduce the target’s damage reduction by up to 15 points. The effects of multiple axes of forced life don’t stack, and the effects of an axe of forced life do not stack with the effects of a negating weapon.

Once per day as a move action, the wielder of an axe of forced life may cause life energy to course through the weapon for 1 minute. Doing so causes the axe’s ouroboros to shed light as a candle. Thereafter, the first undead creature struck by the axe must succeed at a DC 17 Will save or lose the benefits of all forms of damage reduction it possesses except DR/epic for 1 round.

CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS

Cost 22,810 gp; Feats Craft Magic Arms and Armor; Spells breath of life, dispel evil

Section 15: Copyright Notice

Pathfinder Player Companion: Undead Slayer’s Handbook © 2014, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Authors: Dennis Baker, Jay Loomis, Alex Putnam, Adam Roy, Tork Shaw, and Larry Wilhelm.

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