Weapon (longbow), artifact (requires attunement by a humanoid)

A weapon made by Lisandre's Witches, this bow is made of the most nefarious components. This bow is scribed with a maze-like pattern with no beginning or end.

"Abigail  Williams was born at the dawn of humanity, when magic was something feared and forbidden. She was a gifted child, sweet, intelligent and sociable. But most important, She was gifted with the power of the Arcana.

She spent most of his childhood as a common girl, but strange things happend around her. The people who had her simpaties found that the life was easy, the harvest was plentiful and the cattle never got sick. And as She had a very kind heart, the entire village started to grow.

As the village grew prosperous, more people decided to live there, and Abigail felt very happy as most of the people loved her. When she was old enough a lot of people tried to marry her, and she rejected all of them. men and women found that Abigail could never settle down as she loved all the people in the village and could never chose only one of the, to spend her life with. And all of them understand Abigail's feelings and never had a hard feeling against her.

One day, a rich merchant family stablished in the village and the firstborn of the family became the most loved friend of Abigail. As time passed by, both girls grew fond of each other and at the end, love blossomed and they decided to marry. It was a happy time for the entire village, as they felt that they beloved Abigail finally found hapiness. But the day of the wedding, a noble man came to town.

He came looking for Betty Parris, Abigail's fiancee. He claimed that Betty and him were meant to marry each other, as they were engaged and tried to force Betty to come with him. But the village felt another way. All the village defended Abigail's and betty's love, and the noble flee the town, fearing the villagers.

Both girls married, and lived together for two weeks, until Oyer Terminer, Betty's ex-fiancee came back to town with an armored force of 30 men. They were looking for Abigail and Betty. The objective was to take Betty back to the castle to marry her, and he gave the choice to return pacefully or to burn down the village.

Despite Abgail and Betty's will to avoid a dead pool, the villagers tried to hide both of them. When Oyer's army started to burn down the village, both girls presented themseves in front of Oyer in order to avoid any consequence. But Oyer had other ideas, He killed Betty and immediately ordered to kill everybody, included Abigail.

That was the moment when Abigail snapped. Suddenly the flames of the village extingished and Oyer and his army began to burn. In the middle of the village Abigail was standing, with a face deformed by rage, with the arms pointing directly to Oyer, floating 10 feet over the ground.

The army died, burned to the bones, in less than 5 minutes, but the screams of agony and pain can still be heard in that village nowadays.

Half an hour later, when the villagers realised what happend, Abigail was standing on the ground, shocked in pain.They ran towards Abigail. "What a supporting friends I have", She thought. But nothing further from the truth. They wanted to beat her up. As the first hits came, She found herself in the floor covering her head with her arms, and She died in that moment, murdered by a enraged crowd, her own friends, because "she was a witch"  thinking to herself: "I only wanted to protect them and be happy. Why I am dying? Don't they love me?". And She swore revenge agains all that "good" people. She swore never to rest until the last one of the descendants of the people of the village died and their bloodline was extinguished." 

-- "The beginnings of Witchcraft" -- Tasha

 

 

Sentience. The Witch's Kiss is a sentient lawful evil weapon with an Intelligence of 21, a Wisdom of 24, and a Charisma of 24. It has hearing and truesight out to a range of 120 feet. 

The weapon communicates telepathically with its wielder and can speak, read, and understand any language.

Personality. An insane witch named Abigail Williams lives within the Witch's Kiss. The weapon yearns to bring the forces of good to it's knees. It learns its wielder's principles, then uses those ideals to encourage reckless action. The bow whispers ideas of destruction and vengance.

Dormant

The longbow grants the following benefits in its dormant state:

  • You gain advantage on Charisma checks and Saving Throws
  • You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon
  • You deal an extra 1d8 necrotic damage if the enemy is Lawful Good

Awakened

When the longbow reaches an awakened state (more than 25 souls slained with this weapon), it gains the following properties:

  • The weapon’s bonus to attack and damage rolls increases to +2.
  • While attuned, you gain inmunity to Charmed and Frigthened condition
  • If you kill a creature with this weapon, you heal 10 Hit Points

Exalted

When the longbow reaches an exalted state (more than 75 souls slained with this weapon), it gains the following properties:

  • The weapon's bonus to attack and damage rolls increases to +3.
  • While attuned, you gain inmunity to Blinded, Deafened, Petrified and Stunned condition.

- There  was  a pile of charred bones and burned metal. Amongst that mass of dirt, one corpse was untouched by the flames. The body of Betty Parris layed on the top of that bunch of corpses, with all her belongings. Betty possesed a beautiful bow, a wedding gift from Abigail. So I though, how poetic would be to put the soul of Abigail inside Betty's bow? 

+ Absolutely poetic, mother.

- What would be a better way to avenge her deaths than that?

+ I can't think of a better one, mother.

- Neither do I. So in the middle of the night I took Abigail's and Betty's corpses along with that bow and made an enchantment, so now, Abigail lives inside her beloved one's bow. She is seeking to destroy the remnants of that village, hungry to destroy the descendants of the people how killed her loved one.

+ But mother, how do you found that place only a few hours after the events?

- Well, Abigail was a child of mine, I was her mother. A mother always knows... Remember that my child.

-- Conversation between Baba Yaga and Tasha --

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


This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it.

Slow. If you hit a creature with this weapon and deal damage to it, you can reduce its Speed by 10 feet until the start of your next turn. If the creature is hit more than once by weapons that have this property, the Speed reduction doesn’t exceed 10 feet.

Notes: Bonus: Magic, humanoid, Ammunition, Heavy, Range, Two-Handed, Slow

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