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Here is the spear, GUURGAL.’

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A wickedly magic spear, Guurgal has a long, sharp head of cold iron and a smooth haft of darkwood.

Nonlegacy Game Statistics: +1 cold iron spear; Cost 4,304 gp. Thanks to the razor sharp edges of Guurgal, the weapon deals an additional 1 point of damage on a critical hit.

Omen: Whenever Guurgal pierces an inanimate object, that object "bleeds" profusely for 1d4 rounds. Living creatures are unaffected by this oddity, but bleeding objects are omens of victory in some cultures.

HISTORY

Guurgal is a mighty spear that appears in orc legends about their greatest warlords of the distant past, supposedly blessed (or, in some stories, created) by Gruumsh himself. The spear's discovery by an orc warrior is seen as a sign that a Great Horde will soon be amassed to strike at the enemies of the orc tribes. The spear usually reappears every two hundred to four hundred years, and tradition attributes to it a variety of powers.

Guurgal's first known appearance is in the story of Argad, a chieftain of the Bleeding Hands tribe. During a battle with a force of elves, Argad witnessed an enormous orc warrior on the battlefield, wielding the spear with animalistic fury. When the battle ended, Argad found Guurgal standing upright, stuck fast in the gut of one of the fallen elves. The weapon called to the chieftain, and with a great feat of strength, he tore the spear free and claimed it as his own. Three years later, at the head of a horde of ten thousand orcs, Argad waste to many civilized nations.

After Argad's defeat, Guurgal disappeared from orc ken for three centuries. A shaman of the Tearing Claw tribe, who was called the Hooded One, then beheld the spear in a dream sent by Gruumsh. In the vision, Gruumsh put out the shaman's left eye with Guurgal. When the Hooded One woke, his left eye was a blind, dead-white orb, but the spear lay across his chest, the tip still bloody. That same year, the Hooded One marshaled five tribes under his banner and cut a swath through the hobgoblin tribes of the region.

The most recent sighting of Guurgal was in the hands of High King Bruug, ruler of one of the only known orc nations in history. Bruug found the spear in a troll's lair. He carried it into battle against the surrounding human and elven baronies, out of which he carved the nation of Orghar. The kingdom persisted through three generations of Bruug's descendants before a band of adventurers murdered the last High King. Orghar crumbled under the infighting of its warlords and shamans, and Guurgal was lost in the chaos of the kingdom's collapse. It has not been seen since.

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