Community prompt: [spell or ritual ] armor or shield , emerald , brutal
Spell
The Coward’s Shield
This spell was only cast once and its formula subsequently lost. Knowledge of the spell has only been preserved in the legend of the Fenwatch Lord, Hamfist Cursed and Curse-Giver.
On the eve of a battle against a band of reavers, Hamfist asked his court wizard, Mukong, to cast an enchantment upon his family shield, a wide disc of wood-backed bronze covered in a heavy patina and decorated with a ram’s head . The wizard betrayed him and cast an evil spell on the shield instead.
The nature of the spell was not revealed until battle was joined. Hamfist was hard-pressed and he fended off several killing blows. For each of the strikes he turned aside with his shield, one of his house-knights fell dead.
At the last, Hamfist recognized the wizard’s betrayal. He cursed the wizard seven times before he was felled by many reaver spear blows.
Legend has it that, some short time later, the wizard was himself betrayed— laid low by seven wounds from seven stealthy blades, one for each of the curses laid upon him by his dead liege.
Links: The Cursed Shield