+1 longsword; Cost 2,315 gp.

Ritual: Purification of the Tree
You have to plant a tree and arrange for its continual tending. If your original tree ever perishes, you must plant a new one within one month (but need not repeat this ritual). If you fail to plant a new tree, you lose access to Greenheart’s two highest-level abilities until you do. Cost: 2,140 gp. Feat Granted: Least Legacy (Greenheart).

Ritual: Rite of Passage
You must prove your mettle against an aberration with a Challenge Rating of at least 10. You must defeat the creature, but you need not do it alone, and you can use whatever means are at your disposal. Cost: 13,500 gp. Feat Granted: Lesser Legacy (Greenheart).

Shed Bolts (Sp) Starting at 5th level, once per day as an immediate action, you can use protection from arrows as the spell. Caster level 5th.
Deflect Attack (Su) At 6th level and higher, once per day as an immediate action, you can use the flat of Greenheart’s blade to deflect a ranged touch attack, such as a ray, that would otherwise hit you. You must be aware of the attack and not flat-footed.
Quench (Sp) Beginning at 9th level, once per day upon command, you can use Greenheart to cast quench. Caster level 5th.

APPEARANCE
Greenheart is a longsword shaped from a single piece of darkly oiled and gleaming wood. The grain runs with the length of the blade, and the wood is vibrant, as if still living. It never needs sharpening.

BACKGROUND
Stories exist of items grown rather than forged, including Lyon’s Dagger and the Green Shield, but many of these stories are without basis in fact. Fairly good records support the actual existence of a sword called Greenheart, however, whose blade is green and growing. Such a weapon’s wielder is heir to the strength of growing things.

Before Greenheart found its way into Pwyll’s hands, the storied blade was most recently wielded by an elf hunter named Elowyn. Elowyn reveled in the sword’s living nature, using its magic against a servitor of decay known as the Rotting Man. Even without extensive knowledge of the longsword’s true capabilities, Elowyn called on a few of its powers to aid her when she was nearly bested by a demon.

Greenheart was given to Elowyn by an elf lord known as the Nentyarch, a title bestowed upon the greatest living druid in Arvandor. The Nentyarch wielded the blade himself in his youth, having found it in the ruins of a Prime city called Dun-Tharos. The city was destroyed ages ago by the demons with whom its denizens trafficked; fell guardians beset the Nentyarch deep within the ruins, and he barely escaped with his life and the sword.

Greenheart’s history beyond that is not known. It next appeared in the hands of Pwyll, who received it from another member of the Verdant Guild. It now belongs to Talan.

SOURCE
A renamed & reworked version of Dymondheart from Weapons of Legacy (illustration by Wayne England)