Balefire Catapult
The Balefire Catapult is an arcane war machine that inspires terror in all who face it. As easily capable of reducing castle walls to dust as obliterating entire regiments of foot troops on the battlefield, there are few war machines that are more feared. Indeed, such is the dread reputation of the Balefire that merely the rumour of facing them has been known to cause solders to desert and entire armies to rout the field.
Rather than simply launching stones or boulders, the Balefire Catapult is loaded with the skulls and bones of the fallen, each of which is inscribed with dire runes and curses. Crackling sparks of violet energy dances across these bones, but is when the Balefire launches that this power is unleashed in full. The skulls and bones erupt into searing flames as they are hurled into the air, trailing arcs of violet energy across the sky. They crash down amongst the enemy and explode in a deafening roar, searing flesh from bone and liquefying armour and weapons. At battle’s end, the bones of those killed by the Balefire are gathered up and inscribed with fresh runes, ready to be unleashed upon another unwary foe.