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Vorpalknight Scion
When an arcane dragon is slain, its power and intelligence doesn't immediately leave its body. While dragons are often harvested for magical materials, this is often much riskier with arcane dragons; retained magic can linger in the items themselves, especially if it was central to the identity of the dragon. This is never more true than with vorpal dragons, whose chin-blades are extremely important to the dragons themselves. Those who use weapons fashioned from these blades are dubbed Vorpalknights, harnessing this magic for unmatched might.
A vorpalknight blade comes in two varieties - valiant, and malignant. Valiant blades must come from a dragon who gave their lives valiantly in the defense of others, or willingly donated themselves to the crafting of the weapon. Malignant blades are wicked, brutal implements, spawned by the dragon's being hunted. The anguish of their untimely demise lingers in the weapon, and are thus usually wielded by either the wicked or the ignorant.
In either case, the blades are drawn to those who are not already powerful - as these are the ones with the highest potential, and a vorpalknight who has grown from the very beginning with their blade is a true force to be reckoned with.
Vorpalknight Blade
Item 2
rarearcaneartifact
Usage held in 1 hand ; Bulk 1
Base Weapon Bastard Sword
A vorpalknight blade is the severed chin-blade of a vorpal dragon, worked and fashioned into a weapon of preternatural sharpness, and is either valiant or malignant. It maintains a semblance of the intelligence of the dragon it once was, and becomes bound to the first wielder who uses it to draw blood.
A vorpalknight blade is a +1 wounding bastard sword. While it is made of vorpal dragonscale, its properties closely resemble high-grade adamantine, sharing its benefits and statistics.
Destruction A vorpalknight blade is not initially immune to damage like most artifacts, and can be destroyed as normal, though it is highly durable.
Vorpalknight Scion Feats
Vorpalknight's Vocation
Feat 2
archetype
A vorpalknight must learn through bloodshed. You become an expert in Arcana, and your vorpalknight blade gains the effects of a cunning rune.
Vorpal Vow
Feat 4
archetype
Your blade retains vestige memories, whether of those it fought to its last to defend, or of the blood it still thirsts for, and it will not be found wanting again. Once per day, The blade can be activated as a reaction to cast blood vendetta, heightened to half your level rounded up.
It also gains the following activation.
Activate—Vorpal Vow 
(concentrate); Effect Designate one enemy you can see. Until the start of your next turn, your Strikes with your vorpalknight blade against that enemy gain a +1 circumstance bonus to the attack roll, and a +2 item bonus to damage for each stage of potency rune on it. If your blade is valiant, when the target takes a hostile action against you or one of your allies before the start of your next turn, the duration extends to the end of that enemy's next turn. If the enemy continues to take these hostile actions each turn, the duration continues to extend. If it is malignant, this extension instead happens when the target takes persistent bleed damage.
Scalebearer
Feat 6
archetype
Your bond with your blade has deepened, and you begin to inherit the draconic features of your blade's once-majestic form.
You gain resistance to fire and physical damage (except adamantine bludgeoning) equal to half your number of archetype class feats from the Vorpalknight Scion archetype (rounded up), and you gain a +1 status bonus to saves against effects with the arcane trait.
Cutting Rebuke 
Feat 8
archetype
Trigger A creature within the reach of your vorpalknight blade makes a Strike against you.
You inherit the sharp reflexes of your draconic blade's progenitor.
Make a Strike with your vorpalknight blade against the triggering creature.
Vorpal Ascendance 
Feat 10
archetypeconcentratearcane
Frequency once per hour
Prerequisites Scalebearer, Vorpal Vow
Requirements You aren't fatigued.
Duration 4 rounds
You enflame your blade's dormant spirit, wreathing yourself in its scales and cladding yourself in a suit of armor resembling that of the most valiant (or feared) knights of legend.
While you are in ascendence, double the benefits of Scalebearer, increase the bleed damage inflicted by your blade's wounding rune by 2d6, and your vorpalknight blade gains the intelligent trait, gaining the following statistics.
Perception +20; precise vision (darkvision) 30 feet
Communication empathy (bondee only)
Skills Arcana +22, Diplomacy +18, Intimidation +20, Nature +21, Vorpal Dragon Lore +22
Int +4, Wis +2, Cha +2
Will +20
Additionally, for the duration of Vorpal Ascendance, if your blade is valiant, you gain the benefits of unfettered movement, and if it is malignant, it gains the benefits of echoing weapon, both heightened to half your level rounded up.
Special When you take this feat, your blade manifests more of its inner psyche. If it is valiant, it gains the effects of a hopeful rune, and if it is malignant, it gains the effects of a greater fearsome rune.
Hungering Blade
Feat 12
archetype
Your blade thirsts for the blood of your foes, and spills it more eagerly.
The wounding rune on your vorpalknight blade deals 2d6 persistent bleed damage instead of 1d6, and it gains the following activation.
Activate—Feast of Blood (arcane, concentrate, manipulate, void); Effect Your blade draws blood from fresh wounds, bolstering its wielder. Each creature that is taking persistent bleed damage in a 20-foot emanation takes their current persistent bleed damage plus 8d6 void damage (with a Will save against your Class DC). You gain temporary Hit Points equal to half the greatest amount of void damage dealt to a single creature this way for 1 minute. You can't activate Feast of Blood again for 1d4 rounds.
The blade recharges Feast of Blood whenever you score a critical hit with a Strike made with it.
Special For each additional feat from the Vorpalknight Scion archetype taken after Hungering Blade, increase the void damage dealt by Feast of Blood by 2d6.
Ascendant Ascendance
Feat 14
archetype
Prerequisites Vorpal Ascendance
You sprout a pair of gleaming, glittering silver wings while in ascendance, taking on more aspects of your draconic patron, with your own blade's mind sharpening in turn.
While using Vorpal Ascendance, you have a Fly speed equal to your land speed, and your blade's statistics while intelligent change to the following.
Perception +26; precise vision (darkvision) 60 feet
Communication empathy (bondee only)
Skills Arcana +28, Diplomacy +24, Intimidation +26, Nature +27, Vorpal Dragon Lore +28
Int +6, Wis +4, Cha +4
Will +26
Special If you have the Cutting Rebuke action, your blade may contribute its own reaction to use it while intelligent.
Extended Ascendance
Feat 16
archetype
Prerequisites Vorpal Ascendance
As you gain further control of your power and work in tandem with your awakening blade, you can maintain your closeness for longer.
The duration of Vorpal Ascendence increases to 1 minute, and its frequency is once per 10 minutes instead.
Of True Edge
Feat 18
archetype
Prerequisites Vorpal Ascendance
You and your blade are nearly one, just inches away from the true splendour of a fully-realized vorpalknight.
While using Vorpal Ascendance, your vorpalknight blade gains the effects of a vorpal rune, as well as the Vorpal Dragon's Vorpal Binding Feature, using your class DC as any necessary DCs.
Vorpal Apotheosis
Feat 20
archetype
Prerequisites Vorpal Ascendance
You have grown tremendously, and your blade is truly proud of the wielder you have become. You are one, and your might has truly awakened the fierce intelligence of the great beast that once bore it.
Your vorpalknight blade is now always intelligent and always vorpal, and has the following statistics.
Perception +33; precise vision (darkvision) 150 feet
Communication telepathy; (Aklo, Common, Draconic, Fey, Talican)
Skills Arcana +35, Diplomacy +29, Intimidation +31, Nature +31, Vorpal Dragon Lore +35
Int +6, Wis +5, Cha +5
Will +33
Destruction An awakened vorpalknight blade can only be destroyed if it is willing to be, and is used to decapitate a Vorpal Archdragon whose death could potentially lead to the creation of the type of blade opposing its own.
Additionally, Vorpal Ascendance no longer has a duration, and can be Dismissed as a single action with the concentrate and arcane traits.
While using Vorpal Ascendance, if your vorpalknight blade is valiant, triple the benefits of Scalebearer instead of doubling it, and if it is malignant, increase the bleed damage dealt by its wounding rune by an additional 2d6.
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