This relic is, as near as anyone can make out, the
actual metal knife that Abraham supposedly hefted
while preparing to sacrifice his son Isaac at God's
command. The Host today prefers not to dwell on such
matters: in fact, if it weren't for its origins,
they'd probably be more than happy to get rid of it.
Possession of Abraham's Knife gives some interesting
benefits. To begin with, anyone carrying it can never
be forced to change his or her mind about anything.
Balseraphs and Habbalah are well advised to not even
try. Also, possession of the relic seems to bring
with it a bit of God's supposed favor towards its
original owner: all rolls made by the possessor will
have the most favorable CD possible. This means,
among other things, that an Infernal Intervention
becomes effectively impossible to roll, and that any
natural roll of 2 will be a Divine Intervention.
Third, the relic has a Power of 6 and an Accuracy of
+3 - and all damage done to Undead, Hellsworn and
demons will also do an equal amount of celestial
damage. Any servant of Evil that picks up the relic
will take 3 Soul Hits per round, and all celestial
damage done to him, her or it will be tripled.
That's the good news. The bad news is that possession
of the relic means that you have effectively signed
over your free will for the duration. The possessor
will immediately and irrevocably decide to go about
doing God's Will ... and if they don't know what God's
Will is, they'll make their best guess. This includes
servants of Evil, actually. The possessor will also
tend to choosing a violent method of doing God's Will
whenever possible. In other words, committing a sin -
any sin - in the presence in the wielder of the relic
will result in a violent attack, with no consideration
given for mitigating circumstances or whether or not
others may not consider the action to be a sin. Also,
those that wield it will ignore such considerations as
dissonance conditions or disturbance.
The Host tries to keep this relic locked up: only a
Superior can safely use it, and they don't need the
advantages that it gives. However, from time to time
a particularly fanatical angel will figure out some
way to steal it, and then the fun starts all over
again. It's rumored to be even more Unbreakable than
normal, which could be one reason why, say, Novalis
didn't just bite the bullet and destroy the thing...
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