DMing Chemistry

 Bloodthorn is a rare plant cultivated by the Wood Elves . Normally it grows unassuming leafless barked vines studded with thorns, however it has an unusual life cycle. In order for the plant to bloom, it need to absorb large amounts of blood. It can do this through either its roots, or its vines and thorns. As the plant stores more and more blood, the vines gradually become red, becoming the color of fresh arterial blood just before flowering. A healthy plant needs dozens of liters of blood to be able to flower.  As one can imagine, it is quite difficult for an immobile plant to gather the amount of blood needed to reproduce in any reasonable time frame. As to how these plants managed before, there are multiple theories ranging from them being indigenous to other worlds, having been adapted to steal blood from gigantic animals that have since gone extinct, or just having been a one-off experiment of the gods, demons, or just unusually malevolent sorcerers. Whatever the truth,...

 The Weaver of Five Dooms is a spider demon who lives in the mines of Caeledor. Due to the services she performed to the gods, she was allowed to decide the fates of five mortals of her choosing. Obviously she chose the five greatest heroes she knew about, and has decided the most humiliating deaths for each of them. However she has a problem: Conn, the fourth hero has escaped her clutches, and now wanders the world, his destiny unfulfilled.  The Weaver of the Five Dooms looks like a giant black spider, with multiple animal skeletons for heads, the eye sockets of which burn with ghostly purple flames. She can stand more than two meters tall, and has the bodies of her previous three victims rigged up like marionettes with her silk threads, making a confrontation with her quite dangerous (the bodies of the heroes still have their fabled magical items, and Weaver knows how to activate them). The one weakness of this setup is that if someone spots the very fine threads she uses to...

 The Spear of Kush is said to be the first steel weapon ever made. It may even be the first steel item to have been made, as some claim the way to make steel was discovered during its creation.  It is a long-shafted spear, with a leaf-like blade, and no decorations whatsoever, as it was intended to be a bog-standard iron spear fit for a conscripted fighter, and not a noble or mighty sorcerer. During the many years it has been used, it has allegedly killed over a thousand people, with their blood seeping into the blade and making it seek the vitals of the unfortunates it is pointed against. It is also known to affect the wielder's dreams to make them more bloody and horrific each night, though it's hard to tell if that is truly the doing of the spear's magic, or just a consequence of all the killing most wielders of it commit. The spear was previously in the possession of the royal family of the city of Kush (hence the name), but after the unfortunate adventures of one of t...