| Category | Magic Items |
| Type | trident |
| Forge | Habazan Bellow |
| Smith | unknown |
| Enchanter | Sadî |
| Location | unknown |
In the Demon Spawn War (89 GE - 269 GE), a secret agent named Khalân served under Naraz-Nâru. His fall from grace occurred following a fateful encounter with a cunning Cambion. This half-demon, a double agent named Indal'pox, was secretly aiding both the Quara'tun Covenant and a demon lord called Ahnuthall. After seducing and charming Khalân, critical intelligence was divulged, leading to a catastrophic defeat for one of Naraz-Nâru's armies.
Khalân's folly was swiftly uncovered. Naraz-Nâru summoned his former agent in chains before the judiciary branch of the Quara'tun Covenant. Fortunately for Khalân, Danzar-Khâl advocated for leniency (likely due to her status as a Turkûn). She was banished from service under the Quara'tun Covenant, and those bound to the pact were forbidden from assisting her, except in matters of life and death. With this sentence, Khalân found herself in a precarious position, caught between the warring domains of demons and angels that spanned the expansive realm of Bal-Kriav.
Khalân, disheartened by her dismissal, grew embittered. Driven primarily by the need for survival, she elected to join a mercenary force unknowingly serving the demons. This group was eventually rooted out, with Khalân once more falling into the clutches of Naraz-Nâru's forces. Her sentence this time proved far more severe, as Khalân was stripped of her physical form for the duration of the war. The records chronicling Khalân's exploits were lost when the stronghold of Dul-Kiz succumbed to the demons. The location was ravaged, and any remnants spared from the demon rampage were carried off as plunder.
In the Horgon Era, an incorporeal Khalân was discovered by a gnoll shaman named Sadî. The self-proclaimed "spirit talker" leveraged her arcane expertise to detect wayward spirits, eventually locating Khalân. The sorcerous incantation Trap the Soul was then invoked to shackle Khalân's essence to a receptacle, which was subsequently forged into a now sentient trident known as Khalâns Embrace.
The magical attributes of this armament stem primarily from the concept of Time. Bestowed as a gift from Chronos, in exchange Sadî would propagate the doctrine alongside her sorcery. Though it failed to gain momentum with the gnoll, it did proliferate to other factions, minor cults and assemblages seeking to wield temporal manipulation.
Khalâns Embrace is a +5 three-pronged iron trident. Its surface is inscribed with warped depictions of entities afflicted by temporal distortion and decay. The weapon emanates a dull, gray radiance, with wispy trails of smoke perpetually rising from its tines. The atmosphere surrounding the trident occasionally becomes distorted, potentially displacing the wielder and any individuals within a 10-foot radius.
| Trait | Value |
|---|---|
| Psyche | Khalân |
| Alignment | neutral |
| Intelligence | 19 |
| Ego | 24 |
| Communication | speech and telepathy |
| Languages | Abyssal, Primordial, Supernal |
| Name | Description | Usage |
|---|---|---|
| Khalân's Fate | -3 to Luck | continuous |
| Chronos Watches | 10% chance per encounter of causing minor displacement to all within 10' | continuous |
| Bodily Decay | with each hit causes an additional 1-4hps of damage to the living | continuous |
| Haste | as the spell | 2/day |
| Dimension Door | as the spell | 1/day |
| Time Stop | as the spell | 1/week |
| Return to Dust | being struck by the weapon requires a Foritude DC25 or suffer five years of aging and five years each day thereafter (no save on subsequent days). For dispel purposes this curse is equivalent to being cast by a 20th level caster. The curse can be ended with a heal or greater spell, though these do not remove any aging that has already occurred. | continuous |
| Famine and Ruin | Cause drought and famine in a 1 mile/radius per level of the wielder. All plant-life in the area of effect will wither and die over the course of one month and rainfall will be non-existent for period of six months. A 18th or higher-level caster can dispel this effect. The use of this power is very dangerous and will very likely attract high-level druids and other creatures that will seek out the cause of this destruction. Use of this power requires a Will DC25 or loss of 1 point of wisdom. This is a divine curse that is in effect as long as Aredhel remains a Higher Power. The lost wisdom point can only be recovered with a Wish spell | 1/month |