Witchblade
There are few objects in the realms of Yggdrasil-- or the universe itself-- more potent than the Witchblade. It is currently bound to the soul of Sara Pezzini, who has become an avatar for both the life-giving goddess Gaea and the fundamental mortal need for Destruction. She and the Witchblade exist in a tidal lock with Jackie Estacado, the current bearer of The Darkness.
It conceals itself as a bracelet or gauntlet set with blue and red gems. When the wielder invokes it can take the form of any weapon the user desires. When wielded, the Witchblade provides enormous strength and power on par with the New Gods. The wielder needs neither eat, sleep, nor breathe; they can lift twenty tons of weight and survive impacts and weapons that would fell most mortals. The razor-sharp armor the Witchblade summons can resist all but the mightiest of blows. The weapon itself senses magic and communicates on an empathic level with the wielder. When used with the correct intent and focus it obliterate mystical forces and entities. At will the wielder can fling mystical fires that scourges the darkness and burns away life.
The Witchblade's power is weakest when borne against mortals, a weapon only marginally more dangerous than a well-made blade. It is when the Witchblade confronts the most puissant of entities that the full power comes to bear. In the hands of a mortal with the requisite strength of character the full powers of the weapon manifest, making even a lowly human a threat to some of the most ancient Powers in the universe.
A number of women have wielded the Witchblade over the centuries. For some the true power of the weapon never manifested beyond a singularly sturdy and effective weapon and their association was temporary. The Witchblade only seeks out a wielder when the Darkness is active, and there have been times in history when the wielder was too weak or too removed from society to do great harm with it. The wielder of the Witchblade can meditate and commune with the echoes of the women who once wielded the weapon, seeking their counsel and their skills.
The first among them was Una. Others include [[Red Sonja, the half-demon Zara of Mercia, Joan of Arc, Amali of Arabia, Salifah Zayid of Bana-Mighdall, and Hua Mulan.
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Few creatures in all existence know that the Witchblade contains a fragment of Atum's essence and is the ideologuic expression of his war against the Elder Gods.
It was created by primordial forces, a weapon of pure intent designed to slay the Gods themselves. When the First Gods fled to the nascent Demiurge, they swiftly grew indolent and depraved. Demons, Fae, even Hellions roamed the primal lands, from the virgin oceans of Earth to the golden fields of future Asgard. The Elder Gods created life only to strike it down again. Civilizations were raised up, then cut down like chaff for a harvest of fresh souls.
Gaea despaired; her brother Chthon had slipped into degeneracy just like all the new life they begat. The realms around them were bloated and foul with corruption so profound that it even leaked into the Astral Plane, creating vast regions of death and suffering in that infinite domain.
Gaea merged with the essence of the Demiurge and produced Atum, the Demogorge, God-Slayer. She sought the help of other great ideologues and was received by the young but potent Endless. From a union with Destruction a terrible weapon of singular purpose was created, a weapon that could cut kill the Gods themselves. Atum wielded the Witchblade and slaughtered countless gods. Thousands of ideologues were struck down, destroyed so totally that they were rendered into elemental energy. Only a few gods survived Atum's wrath; some, like Cthon and Set, hid in cleverly concealed demesnes or cloaked themselves in the realms of Yggdrasil. Those who remained loyal to the idea of peace, such as Hoggoth and the Lords of Order and Chaos were permitted to remain.
The Witchblade was set in a stone and placed in orbit high over the Earth. It would be millions of years before it descended again, not until the Demiurge was pushed into sentience and the first of the New Gods manifested in the Realms Eternal.
