The witchfire sword series#

Emma Bloodheart’s coven was close to opening a portal to the Verdant Planet when adventurers slew her and drove away her hag spellsisters.

The annis hag in her coven is less amused, and seeks ghost touch enchantments so she can gut the vain and frustratingly incorporeal undead.Ĭhangeling Thistle Bloodheart is on the run from her dead mother. After a lifetime of ugliness (which for a hag is very ugly and very long indeed), the return to the lithe form of her youth is intoxicating. Havelin is thrilled to have reincarnated as a witchfire.

She trails a string of will-o’-wisps equally consternated by the change in scenery but happy to feed on the drunks and indigents they find. Now a figure limned in green flame flits through the cobbled back alleys, trying to come to terms with the passage of centuries and the loss of her beloved marsh. You can easily rationalize that a rite that utilizes certain sacrifices and takes longer than create undead’s standard one hour-say, over a month or so-might serve up more powerful undead.) And that’s in addition to the will-o’-wisps the witchfire can summon on her own, or that naturally follow in her green flaming wake.Ī swamp is filled in to expand a city, disturbing the bones of a long-dead hag. (That’s if you’re following the rules, which say the spell functions at 9th level. These covens are likely to have ghoul servitors as well thanks to create undead. Using fire storm on targets already covered in witchflame is a favorite tactic. Of special note are the powers a witchfire grants to her coven, which tap into both her undead state and the witchflame that surrounds her. They may resent and even hate the living-including their former sisters-but the obsessions that called them back to unlife come first. (A lifetime of fricasseeing babies is hard to shake.) These are hags with unfinished business, and they’re not about to let something as trivial as death get in the way. It just means that when they kill, they kill by choice…or at least out of habit. Which doesn’t make witchfires benevolent by any means. (Over the long term, motive is always more interesting than mayhem.) have their place, but it’s nice to have some undead besides liches that aren’t compelled to murder every last thing they see. The Witchfire’s true purpose is finally revealed, and only the courage and sacrifice of a small group of unlikely heroes can save Alexia from the brink of madness and prevent the infernal weapon from fulfilling its apocalyptic legacy.I like undead that can function in the living world. Now, nearly two decades later, the veteran of countless wars, Alexia returns to Corvis, the City of Ghosts, in search of help from the malignant forces that seek the return of the coveted sword. With the voices of the Witchfire's imprisoned souls raging in her mind, Alexia would eventually unlock the power of the Infernal artifact and command an army of undead to vanquish the villains seeking to use the sword to once again subjugate the Iron Kingdoms. Hellbent to spare her mother an eternity of torture, Alexia Ciannor stole the accursed sword and set out to unlock its dark secrets.

Now, the legend continues in the newest edition of the Iron Kingdoms RPG in an adventure written for 5e.Īs a child, she lost everything when her mother was wrongfully executed for witchcraft and her soul was consumed by the most ancient of all weapons, the black blade known as the Witchfire.

The witchfire sword series#

Twenty-one years ago, the Iron Kingdoms was introduced through an acclaimed series of adventures known as The Witchfire Trilogy.