Bellhammer of the Undead Toll

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Damage 1d8 bludgeoning

versatile (1d10) special

Charges: 7 (regains at dawn)

The head of the hammer is forged from darkened steel, inset with a ring of tiny bronze bells that shimmer with a pale silver luster. The haft is wrapped in deep-brown leather etched with holy sigils, and a faint, musical chime seems to drift from the weapon whenever it meets undead in battle.

Ringing Toll Whenever you hit an undead creature with this hammer, a clear bell toll rings forth from the head. You gain advantage on the next attack roll you make against that undead, and the tolling sound carries audibly within 60 feet.

Undead Toll (charges) As a bonus action, you can expend 1 charge to unleash a 20-foot-radius aura of sacred sound centered on you. Undead creatures within that aura must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or take 2d6 radiant damage and be frightened until the start of your next turn. On a successful save they take half damage and are not frightened. The aura lasts for 1 round and affects only undead creatures.

Lore

forged by a circle of bellfounders who served as stalwart guardians against undead incursions. They embedded a bell within the head to bind the sound of death to the weapon itself, so that every strike against the unending night tolls the doom of those who walk between life and death. For generations, the Bellhammer has led crusades against necromancers and their bonewyrms, its tolling heralding the fall of the unquiet dead.

History

The Bellhammer was first wielded by Lady Morineth, a paladin whose oaths bound her to the living. It passed through a guild of undead-hunters after her martyrdom during a siege where the city’s defenses collapsed to a necromancer’s shadow army. Each subsequent bearer reports a stronger sense of purpose when facing undead, as if the hammer itself sustains a choir of previous guardians who toll along with every strike.

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