Gram, the Sword of Grief

This longsword gleams with gold ornamentation, though the blade is a strange brown color. While you are attuned to Gram, you gain the following benefits:

• You gain a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic sword.
• While you are attuned to the sword and use it to attack a dragon, on a hit it deals an extra 3d6 slashing damage. If you use it to attack a humanoid, on a hit it deals an extra 2d8 poison damage.

Lore

Sword of the legendary hero Sigurd Sigmundsson, it was originally won by his father Sigmund when the god Odin approached him in disguise at a wedding feast. Odin thrust the sword it into a tree and proclaimed that anyone who pulled it from the tree would receive the sword itself as a gift, and that none had ever borne a finer blade. Sigmund drew it, only for Odin to eventually break the blade after he had used it in several battles. The two halves were bequeathed to his son, Sigurd.

Gram was reforged by the dwarf Regin for Sigurd in order to slay Regin’s brother, the wizard-turned-dragon, Fafnir, and reclaim a cursed treasure. Sigurd proofed the blade on Regin’s own anvil, breaking the blade again, and then again after a second forging. Finally, on the third time, it split the anvil in half with a single stroke. Sigurd later killed Fafnir by hiding in a ditch and thrusting upwards into the drake’s unprotected belly. The ditch carried away most of the dragon’s burning, poisonous blood but Gram, as well as Sigrud’s arm up to the shoulder, were bathed in it, and a portion of that venomous malice remains in the sword. Though Sigurd’s eventual tragic end had more to do with a cursed ring he stole from the dragon’s hoard than Gram, it is nevertheless known as the Sword of Grief.