Monday, August 22, 2022

Reverse Ayudhadevis - Women Incarnated as Blades

I had a bizarre dream a while ago where I was a swordsmith and I somehow took the essence of a woman and transformed it into a blade.  When it was swung, it left contrails of electric blue and vibrant violet light in its wake.  Each sword was also an angle and an answer, though that part of the dream faded almost immediately and I cannot articulate it now.

Recently I read about Ayudhapurushas - anthropomorphic incarnations of divine weapons.  And for whatever reason I recalled this dream, and decided to try to put something game-able together out of it.  As usual, please feel free to use what you like and change or throw out anything you don't!

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It is said that the Sorcerer-smith of the Effandril Archons used the essences of maidens as he made his blades.  It is known that upon occasion, one of the Archons would deliver a damsel unto the Master Smith, and she would never be seen again - in the flesh, at least.  Sometimes these women went willingly to the wizard, other times they had to be dragged into his terrible presence.  A span of time later, the master metallurgist would present a weapon of unsurpassed quality to that Archon.

It has been reported that there may be eight blades in all.  This is one of them.





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