This long, wrought iron spear is clearly capable of causing devastating wounds. Blackened ritual runes of death appear along its length. A death spike allows you to draw the life energy out of a dying target, granting you temporary vitality.

It functions as a +1 cold iron spear, but whenever you reduce a living creature to –1 or fewer hit points on a melee attack with the spear, you can activate it to gain 1d8 temporary hit points and a +2 morale bonus on damage rolls. These benefits last for 1 hour; multiple uses of the spear don’t stack. The spear can be activated three times per day.
If you also wear a magic item that grants a bonus to your Charisma score, you can add the item’s bonus to the temporary hit points granted by the spear.

Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, death knell, magic weapon.
Cost to Create: 3,000 gp (plus 304 gp for base item), 240 XP, 6 days.