(Magic Item) Requiem For the Lost

Requiem for the Lost is a backsword with a blade some 16 inches long.  It makes a fine primary weapon for a hobbit or a bandit.  A grandee could carry it hidden under a cloak to be sure but it would not do for him to carry it openly; only the common sorts of people would bear a long knife instead of a proper sword - magic or not.

Requiem is forged from a blade of bluish steel and has a handle of finely-scrimshawed frost giant bone. When found it's scabbard will appear to be in disrepair and its blade dulled but it will radiate of Divination magic.

It was forged by the mad wizard Igfaris some hundred or more years ago for his manservant, Bob Button, who was a burglar and fighting man in his own right.  Igfaris had a fixation on the color blue and a hatred of frost giants.  You would understand if you heard the tale of Sromir's Banquet. 

Count Sromir the frost giant held a banquet to mark the betrothal of his 19th daughter Blarym to the Frost Giant king Krozar, thereby insuring his own place in the royal family. But during the party, Lady Blarym broke the heart of the King Krozar and ran away! 

Sromir, quite drunk and stupid with rage, threw a tantrum the likes of which has not been seen before or since. He threw himself backward upon the floor and so spilled his giant-sized chalice of red wine upon Igfaris!  But it grew far worse.  Sromir was so drunk and so inhospitable that he slammed his giant fists down repeatedly upon the frozen outdoor ballroom floor, sending the party guests up into the air, where they flew in all directions out to several leagues distant, landing in deep snow banks where each would be safe, but quite unable to climb out on his own! To add insult to injury, he rent his codpiece and loosed his bladder in an historic torrent, the odor of which still taints the Yellow Mountain to this very day.

Igfaris returned to his tower and enchanted a blade fit for Bob to exact revenge upon Sromir and to locate the blundering dandies so scattered to the Wilderlands.  But on his way upon his mission, Bob disappeared in the hills somewhere between Longcircle and Talk'o'th'Hill and Requiem disappeared with him.

Game Stats

Short Sword +1, +2 versus Giant-types. 1d6 base damage.  (Gains +2 to hit Giant-types if your weapons do not normally do so.)

Alignment: Neutral

Int: 7  Ego: 1 (never dominates wielder)

Telepathic communication with Wielder.  

Motivation: to kill Giant-types.

Special Abilities:

Level 1: Minor power.  The owner speaks the name of one lost person and places Requiem on the ground.  In one Turn, it will spin so that its blade points the way to the lost person so named.

Level 3: Hold Portal 3/day

Level 5: Knock Spell 1/day

Level 7: Hold Monster, works only against Giant-types, 1/day

Giant-types are the several kinds of giants including ettin, cyclopes, the titans, ogres, ogre magi and trolls. You may decide to alter or add to this list.