A manuscript about the Bane Spear from the Liber Chaotica penned by Rickter Kriess, later declared insane.
The Bane Spear is a near-mythical Chaos Weapon found among the Kurgan clans of the Tahmaks that is capable of banishing Daemons.[1a]
History[]
The legends of the Kurgan tell of an ancient tribe whose chieftain bartered with a god for power to conquer all the other tribes of the Kurgan. In return, he offered the souls of his tribesmen upon his death. The god granted him this power and his dominion stretched across half the mortal world. The chieftain's own son, however, was even more ambitious. In a bid to outdo his father, he plotted to bring the very realm of the gods under his control. He learnt of a sorcerer who defied the god's rule and denied them their tribute of souls. This intrigued the young warrior, and so he took his warriors to the sorcerer's citadel of bone and laid siege to the place.[1a]
After five years and a day, the citadel finally fell and the sorcerer was brought before the chieftain's son as a prisoner. He bartered his knowledge of the darkest rites for his freedom, and instructed the chieftain's son in the rites to forge a weapon that can banish any servant of the gods from this earth. The chieftain's son tricked the sorcerer and slew him, forging a spearhead over a fire of the sorcerer's bone and then cooling it with his own blood. Thus was the Bane Spear forged.[1a]
To test the weapon, he had his shaman summon a Daemon and, when it appeared, he thrust the Bane Spear into the Daemon's hip. The Daemon howled and was banished just as the sorcerer had promised. The young warrior returned to his tribe to challenge his father and make preparations to wage war against the gods themselves, only to discover that his father was no longer there. He had tried to seal an alliance with another dark power so that he might be raised to the other realm, and reign still as a Daemon Prince, thereby thwarting the pact he had previously made. The son was delighted, for with his father ascended he could now take his place.[1a]
He fired weapon after weapon as he had done the spearhead, Daemonkillers all, until the sorcerer's bones were blackened dust and his blood had all steamed away. With these weapons he armed his warriors, and led them north. At the boundary of stone of the mortal realm, he challenged the Dark Gods to face him on the battlefield. Against him emerged a single god carrying a pouch. "Was this all?", cried the young warrior. "No", the god replied.[1a]
He was there to simply collect a debt and it presented the chieftain's son with the body of a Daemon who bore a mortal wound on his hip. And with that, the warrior's massive army of Daemonkillers collapsed from their horses as their souls were pulled from their frames into the god's pouch, which bulged so hugely that he swung it over his back. The chieftain's son alone was spared, and taken along body and all into the realm of the gods to suffer in all the countless other ways only a soul cannot. Such are the ways of the Dark Gods...[1a]
Chaos Weapon Property[]
The Bane Spear has the special Chaos Weapon property known as Banishment, which whenever it strikes an immaterial creature that can be made unstable such as the Undead or Daemons, it will begin to unravel and be banished from the material world.[2a]