The Blightreaper



"Turns out our Bögenhafen problem's down to a Chaos runesword - the Blightreaper. The good news is that Father Kraussman has it under lock and key in a hidden Sanctum Malificarum, but that'll not last. Bring it back here. I doubt we can destroy the blood thing, but I'm prepared to give it a good old Hochland try, as me mother used to say." ― Franz Logner

Chaos runesword
The Blightreaper is a chaos runesword forged by the renegade runsmith Grungni Ironheart. The blade is infomus for its dark powers. For long time it has change hands between diffrent champions of Nurgel. Form the The Mountains of Mourn to the the old world The Blightreaper spread death and decay. The blade drowed kingdoms in pestilence adn turned the blood of heroes into festering slime.

Warhammer: Vermintide 2
In Warhammer: Vermintide 2 the sword is the objektive of the mission The Blightreaper in the DLC Shadows over Bögenhafen. After Franz Logner discovers the plague is caused by a chaosrunesword called the Blightreaper, the heroes  make their way through the dark sewers of Bögenhafen  to the upper city in order to find the runesword and take it back to Taals Horn keep. To claim the sword, they need to find the keys to the Sanctum Malificarum where Father Kraussman has hidden the runesword. They locate the body of Kraussman, who was killed trying to flee the city, close to the Church, and make their way to the Sanctum. After finding the hidden switches needed to open the Sanctum, the heroes take the runesword and escape through the Bridge of Shadows. The heroes must then make their way through the pitch-black sewers,were thay need to take torches with them and light the braziers found along the way. Heroes carrying a torch can still block and attack, but do minimal damage. Unlike the dark section in mission Hunger in the dark, adjusting the gamma setting of the game does not help for better visuality, but enemies are still taggeble. At the end of the sewers, three gates need to be opened with three chained winches. When entering the church where the Blightreaper is found, the heroes need to hold off waves of enemies (including Stormvermin, Savages  and/or Plegue Monks )  while finding five hidden switches. The location of the switches is fixed, but the sequence in which they can be activated is randomized. After opening the gate to the Sanctum Malificarum, the runesword can be grabbed and a route of escape opens up. At the moment the Blightreaper is grabbed, all remaining health of the Heroes is made Gray, making a fast escape essential.