Ruby Rod of Asmodeus

The Ruby Rod of Asmodeus was an artifact.

Description
As the name implied, the Ruby Rods owned by the avatars and aspects looked like a big solid ruby that was formed into the form of a rod. Those owned by avatars or powerful aspects were worth more than a million gp in material value alone, while weak aspects' were worth less, meaning upwards from 50,000 gp. However, the original owned by the Asmodeus's main body was made from a shard of evil and merely tipped with a ruby.

These 4-foot (1,22 meters) rods had an opaline tip looking like a clawed fist clutching a skull and a jagged bottom that looked like the rod was actually part of something bigger and snapped off from that bigger something. They were covered with good deities' and celestials' names, all spelled in reverse and sullied with black blood.

These rods gave off a soft red light. On shooting energy blasts, the rods gave off beams of light in every direction.

Powers
One of the easiest ways to use a Ruby Rod of Asmodeus in combat was to use it as a bludgeon. Used like that a Ruby Rod worked like a +6 unholy greatclub, however, versions that worked like a +2 unholy greatclub or +1 morningstar owned by weak aspects were also known. Whatever the strength of the Ruby Rod, used as a bludgeon, they did not wreck the hit body in physical ways but also in magical ways as though affecting the body with a inflict critical wounds, or inflict light wounds in the +1 morningstar version. It was in fact impossible to even touch a Ruby Rod without suffering the inflict effect. However, having Asmodeus's permission to wield a Ruby Rod allowed a person to wield it without getting hurt.

As mentioned above, Ruby Rods could shoot energy beams. To be more precise, there were three versions, a 150-foot (45,72 meters) beam of electricity, a 150-foot (45,72 meters) beam of acid, or a 75-foot (22,86 meters) cone of intense cold.

Notable Owners
Each avatars of Asmodeus, owned a Ruby Rod of Asmodeus as did aspects of his, at least they owned some downgraded version of it.