Scroll of the Storm-Lance

Scroll of the Storm-Lance is a rare scroll in Landorya. Its known origin is The Scroll of the Storm-Lance was first scribed by the Zephyrian storm-calligrapher Verath of the High Gale during the Age of Screaming Winds, when the Zephyrians sought portable weapons to defend their sky-cities against Drakonian raiding fleets. Verath harvested living lightning from the perpetual tempest crowning the Skyspire of Aethon and bound it into storm-silk using a syllabic cipher known only to the Windwright caste.. Its most cited abilities include Releases a concentrated bolt of lightning that strikes a single target or chains through up to three adjacent foes in a line, dealing devastating electrical damage., The bolt carries a concussive thunderclap on impact, capable of hurling armored opponents off their feet and rupturing eardrums within a short radius., and Targets struck are paralysed by galvanic shock for several seconds, leaving them unable to act or defend.. Accounts also warn of a drawback: Casters who speak the incantation during clear, storm-free skies draw the bolt's energy from their own life-force rather than ambient aether; they suffer a vio…

During the Siege of the Drifting Citadel, a Zephyrian battle-mage named Sorael used one such scroll to shatter the flagship of the Drakonian admiral Kurrath the Ironclad, scattering the raiding fleet and earning the scrolls their battlefield reputation. Copies proliferated across Landorya as Zephyrian traders bartered them for passage rights through Naga waterways and Iron Mountain tunnels, though the Dwarves of the Iron Mountains quickly banned their import after a careless merchant reduced a mineshaft to cinders. Today, originals scribed in Verath's hand are jealously hoarded by the Desert Scholars of the Sunken Archive, who study the storm-silk cipher, while cheaper Gnomish facsimiles, far less stable, circulate through the markets of the Shimmering Isles.