In the glimmering Plane of Fey, xyxl trees have one nemesis: the witherblight fungus. The hyphae creep through the trees’ vascular systems, before blooming in one fungal explosion that turns the entire plant into a glowing, orange fruiting body. Clever sylvan craftspeople have developed a means of enchanting xyxlwood weapons to host this fungus and inject the necrotic spores under a pierced foe’s flesh.

This weapon has 2 charges and regains all expended charges after it spends 8 continuous hours buried in soil.

Witherblight Spore. As an action, you can expend 1 charge to make a special attack with this weapon. On a hit, the target takes the attack’s normal damage and is injected with a rapidly growing witherblight spore. As a bonus action while holding this weapon, you can will the spore to grow, consuming the target from the inside out; the host takes 1d6 necrotic damage and deals only half damage with weapon attacks that use Strength until the end of its next turn.

A creature that hosts a spore can make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ridding itself of the spore on a success. Creatures that don’t have flesh or that are immune to necrotic damage or disease are immune to this effect. If you inject a spore into a second creature, the first spore dies and the target is no longer affected.

Proficiency with a Spear allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it.

Notes: Damage, Debuff, Combat, Thrown, Versatile, Sap