Fire and Frost Brand

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Name Fire/Frost Brand
Appearance long sword
Damage vs. small 2x(1d8)
Damage vs. large 2x(1d12)
To-hit bonus +0
Weapon skill long sword
Size one-handed
Base price 3000 zm
(+10/positive
enchant)
Weight 40
Material iron

Fire Brand and Frost Brand are two very similar artifacts. They are both unaligned long swords that give double damage and +5 to-hit against monsters not resistant to fire and cold. Frost Brand is vastly more popular than Fire Brand, because many monsters in Gehennom are fire-resistant. However, note that most of the Astral plane's monsters are cold-resistant as well.

Both can destroy potions carried by their target; Fire Brand can also destroy scrolls and spellbooks.