This heavy wooden shield is emblazoned with a gory handprint and decorated with bloody symbols. The bloody marks appear fresh and wet.

This gory item is favored by orcs for its shock value to enemies, as well as for its special properties. A shield of the severed hand functions as a +2 heavy wooden shield if you are chaotic evil, chaotic neutral, or neutral evil.

Relic Power: If you have established the proper divine connection, you can activate this shield to make an immediate bull rush attempt (with a +4 bonus on the Strength check) against an adjacent opponent that has just attacked you in melee. This action does not provoke an attack of opportunity from that opponent. You can’t fall prone during this attempt, and you can’t follow the opponent if you push it back. To use the relic power, you must worship Gruumsh and either sacrifice a 4th-level divine spell slot or have the True Believer feat and at least 7 HD.

Lore: The original shield of the severed hand was created when an orc warrior chopped off the hand of an elf king and mounted it on his shield. Upon the warrior’s death, the shield was placed on his blazing funeral pyre. Afterward, it was found intact amid the ashes, still bearing the palm print of its grisly burden (Knowledge [religion] DC 20).

Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Sanctify Relic, Bigby’s forceful hand.
Cost to Create: 2,000 gp (plus 657 gp for base item), 160 XP, 4 days.