Bone Chopper

“For a moment, my heart skipped a beat when he revealed his weapon to cut open the whale dragged ashore. The shaped and sharpened bone blade. The vulgar reinforcements. This blade resembled the bone-chopping sabres wielded by the nefarious warlocks during last night’s raid. However, I began to realise that while these blades could be used as foci for heinous spells, most were as before me: A simple tool by the nomadic people along these shores.”

DETAILS

The Bone Chopper is an iconic weapon for either tribal warriors utilising the bones of their megafauna prey or warlocks applying dark magic to shape bones into devastating weapons. Either way, this weapon will stand out from other melee weapons as exceptionally sinister and alien.

There is easily more to the story than meets the eye: Was it made from the bone of an ancient dragon? Does it curse its wielder? Can it create and control undead creatures? All three? The story behind the Bone Chopper is bad to the bone and entirely your choice!

INSPIRATION

• Inspired by the Shamshir or Scimitar weapons of the middle east
• Dark elves were first mentioned in Norse mythology as the “Dökkálfar” or “Svartálfar” written in the Prose Edda in the 13th century
• Have also been referred to as “Drow” in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, made famous by R.A. Salvatore’s The Dark Elf Trilogy