The Scepter of The NecroDancer is a 7 foot scepter made of a weird metal that is has the mithrils rainbow sheen but is gold in color. the scepter is made so the medal is warped into wisps with screaming undetailed faces. the handle is gold with mummy wrap wrapping it in necrotic runes. the top end of the scepter is a silver dragon talon holding a 100,000 gp crystal ball which cannot be taken out of the scepter by any means.

The staff has 30 charges for the following properties. It regains 2d6 expended charges daily at dusk. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 20, the staff regains 1d8 - 1 charges.

Random Properties.

The scepter has the following randomly determined properties:

• 2 major beneficial properties (While attuned to the artifact, you can use an action to cast Negative Energy Flood from it. After you cast the spell, roll a d6. On a roll of 1–5, you can’t cast it again until the next dusk. and While attuned to the artifact, you regain 1d6 hit points at the start of your turn if you have at least 1 hit point.)
• 2 major detrimental property ( While attuned to this artifact you get a -2 to your Constitution. While you are attuned to the artifact, non-undead creatures can’t take short rests while within 500 feet of you, and cannot take a long rest within 200 ft. of you.)
• 3 minor detrimental property (While attuned to the artifact, if you are within 10 ft. of a holy symbol of a non-evil god or touching holy water you take 2d4 radiant damage, if you are touching a holy symbol of a non-evil god you are paralyzed While attuned to this artifact, if you are in a church/hallowed area of a non-evil aligned god you take 2d6 radiant damage when you enter/exit the area and at the start of your turn if you are still in that area. While you are attuned to the artifact, you have weakness to radiant damage)

Spells. While holding and attuned to the staff, you can use an action to expend some of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it, with the spell save DC 19 and the spellcasting ability +8, you can upcast the spell up to level 6 adding +2 to the charge cost: Cause Fear (1 charges), False Life (1 charges), Inflict Wounds (5 charges), Ray of Sickness (1 charges), Gentle Repose (2 charges), Ray of Enfeeblement (2 charges), Animate Dead (+1 corpse/skeleton to zombie/skeleton, 3 charges), Bestow Curse (you can increase the potency of the curse when you cast it at a higher level, 4 charges), Life Transference (3 charges), Revivify (the creature gains 2 flaws and must make a DC 19 Intelligence saving throw or also gain a random minor madness, 9 charges and the spell costs half the gp cost, 5 charges), Spirit Shroud (4 charges), Summon Undead (does not need material components, 4 charges), Vampiric Touch (the benefits apply only to quarterstaff attacks with this staff, 5 charges), Contagion (5 charges), Danse Macabre (the spell does not need concentration checks, 6 charges), Create Undead (+1 Undead and can be upcasted to 9th level and ghouls are always loyal to you, 7 charges), Soul Cage (this spell does not need the cage instead the soul can be trapped in the crystal sphere and to get a benefit you need to use up 2 charges, 9 charges), Mass Cure Wounds (14 charges), Slow (3 charges), Otto’s Irresistible Dance (Concentration up to 2 hours, 8 charges)

Scrying Ball. If you are holding the scepter, are attuned to it and have a Lute Piece, have The Golden Lute, or are King Pierre The NecroDancer and are attuned to it you can look into the crystal ball and if you have been to Marrowfell you can create a invisible ball of purple fire in the shape of a eye that you can see through, you can also cast spells using your prepared spell list and spell slots. and while holding the staff you can use this effect but with on of Marrowfell's eyes in the sky creature no matter where it is but cannot cast through it.

Blood Curse. The scepter can curse a creature with blood expending 3 charges to attempt curse a creature within 30 ft. of you. that creature has disadvantage on attack rolls against you and takes 2 of the creatures hit dice and cannot recover this damage for the time this part of the curse takes, each 6 seconds for 1 minute (the time can be scaled up like bestow curse with +2 charges for each level up to 8th level) and for 24 hours cannot regain health.

Evil Curse. When a good-aligned creature attunes to this artifact the artifact cannot be unattuned unless a spell like Remove Curse and every dusk the creature must make a DC 28 Constitution saving throw every dawn, if they fail they lose 1d12 maximum hit points until they unattune from the artifact, the saving throw is repeated every dawn.

Sentience.

The Scepter of the NecroDancer's personality is a mash up of the scepter is a scepter with an Intelligence of 23, a Wisdom of 11, and a Charisma of 21. It has hearing and darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. The Scepter of the NecroDancer's other personality is a dark power imprisoned in the crystal orb. the dark power cannot speak and has a Intelligence of 13, a Wisdom of 19, and a Charisma of 13, the dark power does not remember his name but as long as you have the scepter even if you are the dark/dread lord of Marrowfell you can exit Marrowfell into the world you desire as long as you have a version/clone/simulacrum of yourself in Marrowfell and as long as you have the staff can control and speak to your clone/simulacrum

Personality.

The Scepter of the NecroDancer speaks with a calm tone, as though nothing can get under the skin of the scepter.

The scepter knows it was created from dark magics and hungers for souls though shows no pleasure or desire to or do so. It doesn’t care whose souls it eats. The scepter believes that all magic can be twisted into darkness and wishes to do so. The Scepter of the NecroDancer is meant to hurry that process along.

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

Destroying the Scepter. To destroy the scepter Pierre must use the scepter to destroy his mother and fathers phylacteries then smash into The Golden Lute shattering both the scepter and the phylactery.

Notes: By a Non Lawful-Good Humanoid or Undead